人教新目标九年级上册英语作业：Unit 6When was it invented单元同步阅读训练(一).pptVIP

Unit 6　When was it invented? 人教版 单元同步阅读训练(一) 一、阅读理解(一)。 请阅读下列五个重要发明的说明，将其与下图陈列的六个用品相匹配。 其中一项为多余选项。 1.The first home computer with a GUI was the Apple Lisa. It was developed by the Xerox Corporation at their Palo Alto Research Center(PARC) in the 1970s. Steve Jobs visited PARC in 1979 and was influenced by the Xerox Alto, the first computer ever with a GUI. Jobs produced the new Apple Lisa based on the technology he saw at Xerox. 2.It plays an important part in our daily life. Its the most popular in China and its the easiest to use so that you can go to many places on it. Riding it is good for our health and environment. Of course，its also very cheap. 3.Its birth，as we know, happened a period of years ago. It was only in 1885 that the first real one rolled down onto the streets. The earlier attempts, though successful, were steam-powered road vehicles. 4.It is the first important invention in the world, which made it easier for man to carry heavy things and to travel long distances. So, its invention changed the world quickly for the first time. 5.It is the oldest kind of calculator used in China many centuries ago. Now the calculators are getting smaller and smaller, and computing faster and faster. But it is still used by businessmen and clerks in China, Japan, Africa, India and elsewhere. 1.____　2.____　3.____　4.____　5.____ C A D B F 二、阅读理解(二)。 阅读下面图文，简要回答所给问题。 April 23 is World Reading Day.The Day is celebrated by a growing number of people in the world because it has made them discover the best use of books. Do you like reading books？Which would you prefer？ E-books or printed books? There is a survey. It shows the results about the peoples reading habits for exact purposes in the past 12 months. 45 percent of readers said they read their e-books in bed. In a head-to-head competition, people prefer e-books to printed books when they want to get a book quickly to read, but printed books win out when people are reading to children and sharing books with others. H