Module 4　单元质量检测(四)

　　(时间：100分钟　满分：120分　本卷共4页)

班级：　　　　　　　　　姓名：　　　　　　　　　得分： 　　Ⅰ.阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

　　阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项。

　　A

　　Thomas Edison was often said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius."There is no such thing as genius，" Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child, he wondered about the secrets of nature. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

　　Edison could not know how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old，someone asked him what ideas he had about life."Work，" he answered."Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier." He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

　　Edison was always poor, and often unsuccessful in his early life. But he never allowed trouble or failure to make him sorry for himself. He always liked to think about the happy things in life.

　　He said that his deafness had helped him in his work，because it had saved him from hearing a lot of foolish talk that would have made him difficult to think.

　　Edison met and knew many of the most famous and important men in the world during his life. He had dined with kings. But he was never able to believe that there was anything special about himself. He was interested in people, not in how famous they were.

　　He did not understand why people had special favours for him. This was true as much when he was an old man as when he was young. Once, the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad decided that he himself would carry Edison's bags from the train. Edison was wholly surprised. He couldn't understand why the man had done this.

　　He was not proud of his work."I have tried so many things I thought were true and found out that I was wrong，" he said. He could never forget that he was not always right. All he could do, he knew, was to try everything he could think of to prove that this idea was true, and to continue trying until he would be sure his plans would succeed.

　　1．We may know from the first paragraph of the passage that ________.

　　A．Edison was the inventor of the first useful electric light

　　B．Edison invented the telephone for the human beings

　　C．Edison invented the light bulb

　　D．Edison was the inventor of the atom

　　2．Edison could not know how anyone could be uninterested in life because ________.

　　A．he cared more about anything in life than others

　　B．he had time to take care of the life

　　C．he considered life more important than anything

　　D．he loved to have a long life to work

　　3．The passage also shows that Edison's attitude toward life is ________.

A．sorry　　　　　　　B．optimistic