[精品]2019学年高二英语上学期期中试题 新人教版 新版(1)(3)

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18. How did Mr. Gilbert know about the state of his illness?

A. Pretending to be a relative of the patient.

B. Using a bedside telephone for his purpose.

C. Going to the doctor’s for inquiring his conditions.

19. How long would Mr. Gilbert have to stay in hospital according to the doctor?

A. Two decades.

B. 15 days.

C. A fortnight.

20. What can we learn from the conversation?

A. Mr. Gilbert’s operation was very successful

B. Dr. Millington was unwilling to tell the truth.

C. The man that telephoned just now was Gilbert’s relative.

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Philo Farnsworth is not a name most people know. But his work changed the way we learn, the way we live, and even the way we think. Philo Farnsworth is responsible for one of the 20th century inventions: television.

Philo Farnsworth was born in America in 1906. He was interested in science and technology at an early age. When he was twelve years old, he built an electric motor for his family’s washing machine. When he was fourteen, he was already giving a lot of thought to electrons（电子）. As he was driving the family’s horse-drawn plowing machine, he noticed the evenly spaced rows of the potato fields. This sight gave him the idea that electrons could scan an image one row at a time—an idea that was the key to electronic television.

By the time he was twenty-one years old, Farnsworth had started his own company and had managed to build the world’s first electronic television. It was a very simple device（设备）. But after years of hard work, Farnsworth was able to introduce the kind of television we now use.

Farnsworth was a great inventor, but lived an unhappy life. He had a legal battle with the company, Radio Corporation of America (RCA) over who the real inventor of the TV was. He won the case, but the government stopped companies from making TVs during the war, so Farnsworth didn’t make much money from 推荐下载

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