( )5.This passage is mainly about .

A. the importance of having different reading speed

B. the relation(关系)between reading and driving speed

C. the difference between driving and reading

任务型阅读：(10分)

Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born on February 11th in 1847 at Milan, Ohio and died on October 18, 1931. When he was a child he was always trying out new ideas. One day when he was five years old, his father saw him sitting on some eggs. He asked him why he was doing that. Tom did not answer. Instead, he asked his father: “Hens are able to have chicks. Why can’t I?” Young Tom was in school for only three months. During those three months he asked a lot of questions. Most of these questions were not about his lessons. His teacher did not understand him. The boy had so many strange questions. The teacher could not answer all of them. So he wanted to send Tom away from school. He told Tom’s mother that Tom was not clever, and he asked her to take the boy out of school. So Tom’s mother took him out of school, and taught him herself. She taught him to read and write, and she found him a very good student. He learnt very fast. Even before he was ten he became very interested in science. He grew vegetables in his garden and sold them. With the money he set up a chemical laboratory in the cellar (储藏室) of his home in 1857. Thomas Edison was awarded 1,368 separate and different patents(专利)during his lifetime. His first patented invention was an electrical vote recorder in 1868. 1876—1877, invented the phonograph. 1891, invented and patented the motion picture camera. 1897, invented the first commercially practical incandescent (白炽的) electric lamp. 1900—1910, invented and perfected the steel alkaline (碱性的) storage battery.

根据短文，完成下面的任务。

(A) 判断正误。Write “T”for true or “F”for false .

1. Thomas Edison died at the age of sixty-five. ( )

2. Tom’s teacher didn’t like him because he didn’t study hard. ( )

3. Tom became interested in science even before he was ten. ( )

(B) 回答下列问题。Answer the following questions.

4. How did he build his science lab? _______________________________

5.Do you think Thomas is clever ? ________________

(C)根据短文填空。Fill in the form according to the passage.

6. Name Thomas Edison Year of Birth:?????????????????? __________________

7. Year of Death: _____________

8. Education Level(教育水平): _______________

9. At the Age of Ten: ______________________

10. 1876—1877:________________________

Ⅸ. 写作。

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