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Do you know the history of the car? In fact, the car was invented just a century ago.
You may know all kinds of 1 names, but many people don’t know who was the inventor of the first car. The first car was invented not by an Englishman, 2 by an American. His name was Henry Ford.
Henry was born in a poor family. He was the 3 of six children. When he was a boy,he 4 interested in watches and machines. When he was twelve years old, his mother died. Soon he had to work in a machine shop for two dollars and fifty cents 美分 ) a week.In the evening he 5 watches for another dollar a week. The hard life made him strong and 6 . At that time there was another 7 in the life of the young Ford. He wished to make a machine. It could run 8 horse, so he named it horseless carriage. In April, 1893,the “horseless carriage” 9 at last. It was the first car in the world. Later Henry Ford 10 the Ford Motor Company. He was really the inventor of car in the world.
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6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____ 9. _____ 10._____
“Ordinary” was the worst word my mother could find for anything. Whenever she took me out for shopping, I found she wouldn’t take any notice of the shop assistants when they suggested that some dresses were popular. She would say, “We’re not interested in that.Haven’t you got anything a little unusual?” And then the assistants would bring out all the strange colours no one else would buy. And later she and I would argue because I wanted to be ordinary but my mother wanted to be unusual.
“I can’t stand that hairdo ( 发型 ),” she said to me when I was in a boy hairstyle. “ It ’s so terribly ordinary ... Not ugly, not unsuitable. But ordinary ...”
“Couldn’t you please wear something else?” I asked one day when she was dressing for Parents’ Day in tight ( 紧贴的 ) trousers and a bright pink sweater.
“What’s wrong with it?”
“It’s just that I wish you’d wear something ordinary,” I said, “that people won’t laugh at.”She looked at me angrily, “Are you ashamed of your mother? If you are, Mary, I feel sorry for you.”
（） 1. What did the shop assistants advise Mary’s mother to buy?
A. Something very popular.B. Styles they have sold out.
C. Cheap clothes.D. The most unusual clothes.
（） 2. When Mary had her hair cut in a boy hairstyle, her mother _____.
A. felt happy with it B. surely disliked it
C. told her to change it D. thought it was unusual
（） 3. What does her mother mean by “ordinary”?
A. Unusual.B. Ugly.C. Common.D. Popular.
（） 4. The underlined word “It” most likely means _____.
A. the hairdo B. the dresser C. the boy D. the colour
（） 5. Why did Mary ask her mother to change her clothes on Parents’ Day?
A. Because her mother’s clothes were out of style.
B. Because she didn’t like a pink sweater at all.
C. Because she didn’t like her mother to dress that way.
D. Because she didn’t want others to look at her mother.
Living in another country can be very lonely. Last year I went to a middle school in America.
I had no friends there. I was always alone, and sometimes I felt like I was the only person in the world.
One Monday, our teacher brought a boy into the classroom and told us, “This is Terry King, your new classmate.” He was tall and fat, and when he smiled, his eyes turned into a line. He was always smiling, and it seemed like he had no worries.
Terry took the seat next to me. Then he looked at me for a second. I didn’t realize that we could become good friends later.
One day in the afternoon, I went to the computer room in our school to play my favorite computer game. When I went inside, I got a big surprise: Terry was there and was playing the same game!
“Hey, I’m surprised to see you here,” I said. I sat down beside him.
“Me, too,” he smiled, and his eyes turned into a line. I turned round and looked at his screen. He was a good player.
I hoped we could play together. I asked excitedly, “Do you like this game, too?”
In fact, I had never talked to a classmate freely before, but his smile helped me to open up.
“Would you like to play with me?” I asked.
“Sure,” he answered. He seemed as happy as I was. As we started the game, we started our friendship, too.
Living in Another Country
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1. inventor n. 发明者（家）
2. be born in ... 出生于
3. found v. 创建
4. ordinary adj. 普通的
5. take notice of 注意到……
6. shop assistant 店员
7. bring out 拿出，带来
8. hairdo n. 发型
9. tight trousers 紧身裤
10. be ashamed of 因……感到羞愧
11. be sorry for 为……感到遗憾
12. out of style 过时，不时髦
13. have no worries 无忧无虑
14. a big surprise 很大的惊喜
15. screen n. 荧屏，屏幕
16. open up 放开，开发