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■文布 ■文布 ■文布 ■文布 PAGE PAGE #欢迎下载 PAGE PAGE #欢迎下载 精 精品文柚 PAGE PAGE #欢迎下载 人物传记类中考英语阅读理解 叶邑镇中学九年级英语组 姚胜兰 A You may n ever heard of Ladislao Biro, but you have certa inly heard of the pen he inven ted — the ballpo int pen (圆珠笔)，or biro. Before Biro inven ted his pen, people wrote with fountain pens. The ink sometimes went out. In the a magaz ine editor in 1930s, Biro was Budapest in Hun gary. He no ticed that the inks which the magazine printers used dried very quickly, Biro wondered if quick could be used in pens. He came up with th^~drying inks idea of a tube (管子)k with a free — moving ball on the end. As a person wrote, the ball collected ink from the tube and rolled it on to the paper. The pen would be cheap and could 诡 throw n away whe n the ink was used up. Biro bega n to work on his inven tio n but he soon left Europe for Bue nos Aires in Argentina, a country in South America, because of the Second World War. Biro and his brother George, who was a chemist, began to improve the pen. In the early Biro began to produce his〔r^Ws, pen, the biro. In 1944, he sold his invention to company, which began to produce the pen and America. twelveBiro was pleased that his pen was popular, but he did not get much from his invention. The biro was later sold to the French company, Bic, which now sells millio n pens a day. Biro sank into obscurity in has become 訓猊瞅曲?1?前牌昇(89, however, twelve 根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。 ()46. Biro is the n ame of a chemist a fountain pen a compa ny a ballpo int pen passage, ( )47. Accordi ng to the Biro new pen was first produced in A. Hun garyAmericaB. France A. Hun gary America B. France C. Arge nti na D. Brita in and () 48. Which of the followihis new pen? () 48. Which of the followi his new pen? 叫 came up with an idea A. improved his pen C. worked as an editor ()49. The un derl ined part B. lost a lot of money D. was unknown to many people can be filled in the box to show how Biro inven ted worked on his inven ti tt produced his