强化技能限时训练(十八)
阅读理解+阅读填句
(限时30分钟)
Ⅰ.阅读理解
(2015河北衡水中学三调)【生活知识类】
We know the famous ones—Thomas Edison and the Alexander 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 Mclean,“When students learn the answers to these questions,they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try.”
Her students agree.One young man with a patent for an unbreakable umbrella is walking proof
