（外研版）高中英语必修一同步练习：23（module 5）（含答案）.docVIP

英语备课大师 【全免费】 PAGE / 语 篇 提 能 阅读理解 A Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, America. In his life he built a successful printing and publishing business in Philadelphia; he conducted scientific studies of electricity and made several important discoveries; he was a diplomat (外交官) and statesman; he helped establish Pennsylvanias first university and Americas first city hospital; he also organized the countrys first subscription library (收费图书馆)． Franklin was also unequaled in America as an inventor until Thomas Edison. Ben had poor eyesight and needed glasses to read. He got tired of always taking them off and putting them back on, so he decided to figure out a way to make his glasses let him see both near and far. He had two pairs of glasses cut in half and put half of them together. Today, we call them bifocals (双光眼镜). Another invention of his，an iron stove, allowed people to warm their homes. He loved to learn about new things. He also thought it was important to make life better with the things that he invented. Electricity was one of the things he experimented with when he retired from his business. Ben discovered that lightning (闪电) and electricity were the same thing. The lightning rod was an important invention that we still use today to protect buildings and ships from lightning damage. Franklin preferred to have his inventions used freely for the comfort and convenience of everyone. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of America, called Benjamin Franklin “the greatest man of the age and country in which he lived”. To Benjamin Franklin there was no greater purpose in life than to “live usefully”． 语篇解读　被称为“美国之父”的本杰明·富兰克林是杰出的外交官、科学家、实业家。他还是位很有成就的发明家。 1．Benjamin Franklin was NOT a ________. A. diplomat B. scientist C. businessman D. president 答案与解析　D　推理判断题。根据第一段可以推断，本杰明·富兰克林是一位外交官、科学家、实业家，但不是总统。 2．The underlined word “unequaled” in Paragraph 2 means ________. A. better than any other B. worse than any other C. the same as others D. con