全国用2018-2019年高考英语大一轮复习Unit3Inventorsandinventions课件新人教版选修.pptVIP

连句成篇(将以上句子连成一篇50词左右的英语短文) Mr. Thomas，who was a cautious businessman，got a patent for his products.But later he found his products didn’t live up to their criteria.He seized the chance and set out to improve them.He expected that his products could bear the tests and that his income would have a stable increase. 语篇训练　提升能力 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 Ⅱ . 七选五 Ⅲ . 完形填空 Ⅰ. 阅读理解 (2016·山东济南山师大附中模拟) 　　We know the famous ones—the Thomas Edisons and the Alexa-nder Graham Bells—but what about the less famous inventors？What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper (雨刮器)？Shouldn’t we know who they are? 　　Joan McLean thinks so.In fact，McLean，a professor of physics at Mountain University in Range，feels so strongly about this matter that she’s developed a course on the topic.In addition to learning “who” invented “what”，however，McLean also likes her students to learn the answers to the “why” and “how” questions.According to McLe-an，“When students learn the answers to these questions，they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more mot-ivated to give inventing a try.” 　　Her students agree.One young man with a patent for an unbreakable umbrella is walking proof of McLean’s statement.“If I had not heard the story of the windshield wiper’s invention，” said Tommy Lee，a senior physics major，“I never would have dreamed of turning my bad experience during a rainstorm into something so constructive.” Lee is currently negotiating to sell his patent to an umbrella producer. 　　So，just what is the story behind the windshield wiper？Well，Ma-ry Anderson came up with the idea in 1902 after a visit to New York City.The day was cold and stormy，but Anderson still wanted to see the sights，so she jumped aboard a streetcar.Noticing that the driver was struggling to see through the snow covering the windshield，she found herself wondering why there couldn’t be a built-in device for cleaning the window.Still wondering about this when she returned home to Birm-ingham，A