B．catch them in the easiest way

　　C．know how to drive them off

　　D．kill them in the easiest way

　　2．Which of the following statements is NOT true?

　　A．If an invention passes all the tests, it will be 18 months before the application for a patent is published.

　　B．If you have designed a series of computer programmes, you can apply for a research patent.

　　C．Unless your product is discovered really different from everybody else's, you won't receive a patent.

　　D．When a product is accepted and honored a patent, the inventor will receive a large amount of money.

　　3．What's the biggest advantage of the writer's new idea?

　　A．It makes the snakes move slowly.

　　B．It makes the snakes hardly bite us.

　　C．It is easier for us to kill the snakes without hurting ourselves.

　　D．It is easier for us to catch the snakes without killing them.

　　4．The snakes were finally caught by .

　　A．hitting them with a stick

　　B．cooling them and catching them with a net

　　C．putting them into a schoolbag

　　D．watering them with cool water

　　答案：1～4　BBDB

　　Ⅲ.Study­reading

　　Analyze the following difficult sentences in the text.

　　1．The first thing I did was to see if there were any products that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders designed to kill snakes.

　　[句式分析]

　　[尝试翻译]　我所做的第一件事就是看看有没有什么产品能帮助我，但看来只有一种毒杀蛇的药粉。

　　2．Only after you have had that recognition can you say that you are truly an inventor.

　　[句式分析]　这是一个倒装句。only修饰时间状语从句after you have had that recognition并且位于句首，这时句子的主句要使用部分倒装。

　　[尝试翻译]　只有获得了认证，你才可以说是一个真正的发明者。

　　3．The criteria are so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted unless they are truly novel.

[句式分析]