Ⅰ.Skim the passage quickly and find out the main idea of it.

　　It mainly talks about the life of Alexander Graham Bell and how he made the great inventions.

　　Ⅱ.Choose the best answer according to the text.

　　1．Alexander Graham Bell invented the microphone because .

　　A．he was interested in the microphone

　　B．he liked inventing anything he liked

　　C．he wanted to help deaf people like his mother to communicate with others

　　D．he had nothing to do but kill the time

　　2．What was not included in Alexander Bell's experiment mentioned in the passage?

　　A．A straw.　　　　B．A microphone.

　　C．Smoked glass. D．A deaf man's ear drum.

　　3．Which of the following is NOT true?

　　A．Bell's exploration and dynamic spirit led to his invention of the telephone.

　　B．Bell invented the first telephone in searching to improve the telegraph.

　　C．Bell was always aimed at improving the quality of everyone's life.

　　D．Bell sent his first telephone message before he got his patent.

　　4．From the whole passage we can see that Alexander Graham Bell was .

　　A．poor B．creative

　　C．rich D．kind

　　答案：1～4　CBDB

　　Ⅰ.单词拼写

　　1．Understanding the instructions requires a ninth grade reading competence (能力)．

　　2．The amount of rainfall (降雨) determines the quality of the crop.

　　3．When the couple were laid off, with no stable (稳定的) income, they could hardly make ends meet.

　　4．To be honest, I could hardly bear (忍受) being treated as rudely as that.

　　5．That girl tapped (敲) her fingers on the desk impatiently.

　　6．I didn't find his name in the directory (电话簿). Do you have his phone number?

　　7．He went to bed complaining of a pain in the forehead(额头)．

　　8．When the ice is heated above freezing (冰冻的) point, it begins to change into a liquid state.

　　Ⅱ.拓展词汇

　　1．associate vt.联想；联系 n．同伴；伙伴→association n．社团；协会；联合；联想

　　2．freezing adj.冰冻的；严寒的→freeze vt.&vi.冻结；凝固→frozen adj.冻结的；被冰覆盖的；严寒的

　　3．innocent adj.清白的；无罪的→innocence n．清白

　　4．practice n．实践→practical adj.实践的；实用的

5．extend vi.延伸→extension n．扩大；延伸