出自:西北大学大学英语（上）
1.Do you know Edison wore many caps during his life? First he was just a poor working boy. He wore work caps of many kinds. Later in life he became a famous inventor. Then he wore the caps of many famous schools and colleges. But his most important cap was his thinking cap.
When he was a young boy, Edison.s thinking cap saved his mother.s life. One night, she suddenly felt ill. A doctor was called in. He had to operate(做手术) on her at once, but there was not enough light in the room. Edison quickly put on his thinking cap. He got all the oil lights in the house and put them on a long table. Then he placed a big mirror behind them. At once the room was quite bright. The doctor could operate, and his mother was saved.
Edison was a thinking man. Yet, he was a working man and doing man, too. He was good with his hands and his head. Edison.s inventions have changed the world greatly. Today, big trains run on electricity. Electricity lights light up the streets of towns and villages. Science uses it every day.
Records, shining lights, moving pictures and ringing telephones are very common now. Edison.s thinking cap made them. Usually, caps keep the head warm. But thinking caps keep the world warm.
(20分)
(1)The passage shows that Edison was very _____ when he was a young boy(4分)
A. clever
B. stupid
C. ill
D. warm
(2)Edison was the inventor of records, lights, moving pictures, and ______.(4分)
A. wheels
B. telephones
C. computers
D. caps
(3)When the doctor was to operate, the room was dark because there was no _____.(4分)
A. windows
B. caps
C. enough lights
D. fire
(4)The thinking cap in the passage probably refers to _____.(4分)
A. Edison.s gifts
B. a thick hat
C. a poor working boy
D. a schoolboy
(5)Which of the following is not true?_____(4分)
A. Edison was good with his hands and his head.
B. The doctor did not do very well in the operation.
C. Edison invented many things and changed the world greatly.
D. With Edison.s help, the doctor saved his mother.
1.Languages are remarkably complex and wonderfully complicated organs of culture. They contain the quickest and the most efficient means of communicating within their respective culture. To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture. In the words of a poet and philosopher, "As many languages as one speaks, so many lives one lives." A culture and its language are as necessary as brain and body; while one is a part of the other, neither can function without the other. In learning a foreign language, the best beginning would be starting with the non-language elements of the language: its gestures, its body language, etc. Eye contact is extremely important in English. Direct eye contact leads to understanding, or, as the English saying goes, seeing eye-to-eye. We can never see eye-to-eye with a native speaker of English until we have learned to look directly into his eyes.(20分)
(1)The best title for this passage is Language and Culture.(4分)
A. T
B. F
(2)According to this passage, the only way to learn a foreign language is to begin by learning its body language.(4分)
A. T
B. F
(3)According to this passage, gestures are pictures in a language.(4分)
A. T
B. F
(4)To learn a foreign language is to learn another culture.(4分)
A. T
B. F
(5)Direct eye contact leads to understanding in all cultures.(4分)
A. T
B. F