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高考资源网（ ），您身边的高考专家 欢迎广大教师踊跃来稿，稿酬丰厚。 高考资源网（ ），您身边的高考专家 欢迎广大教师踊跃来稿，稿酬丰厚。 温馨提示： 此套题为Word版，请按住Ctrl,滑动鼠标滚轴，调节合适的观看比例，答案解析附后.关闭Word文档返回原板块. 课时提升作业 二十一 必修5　 Unit 1　Great scientists (限时35分钟) Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A (2018·河南八市联考) Many of the world’s most well-known people were once successful failures. Here are the stories of a few of them. Abraham Lincoln(1809-1865) Abraham Lincoln was one of America’s greatest leaders, taking the country through the Civil War(from 1860 to 1865). However, his life was never easy. He started numerous businesses that failed. He went bankrupt twice, and was defeated in 26 campaigns for public office. He later said, “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. ” Vincent Van Gogh(1853-1890) Van Gogh is one of the most famous and influential painters in the history of Western Art. He’s renowned for paintings such as The Starry Night, The Potato Eaters and Sunflowers. However, during his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only one painting for a very small amount of money. Despite this, he carried on painting, sometimes even going without food so he could complete his collection of over 800 known works. Albert Einstein(1879-1955) Albert Einstein won the Noble Prize in Physics in 1921. However, he wasn’t always considered as a “genius”. He didn’t speak until he was four, and couldn’t read until he was seven. His teachers and parents thought he was slow, so he was expelled from school and couldn’t get into the Zurich Stephen King(born 1947) Stephen King is one of the best-selling authors of all time, but his first book, Carrie, was rejected by about 30 publishers. Eventually, Stephen threw it in the bin, but his wife fished it out and encouraged him to resubmit it, which he did successfully this time! 【文章大意】这篇文章主要讲了世界上的许多人在成功之前都遭遇了失败, 并且为我们列举了几个非常有名的人物的例子. 1. Which statement is true about Abraham Lincoln? A. He led the American War of Independence. B. He never succeeded in his bu