首页
登录
职称英语
[originaltext] At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, the prolific Ameri
[originaltext] At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, the prolific Ameri
游客
2024-04-24
32
管理
问题
At the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries, the prolific American inventor Thomas Alva Edison developed devices that changed industry, communication, and everyday life. He perfected much of his work in his famous laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. But he was almost as busy at his winter home in Fort Myers, Florida, where his work took some interesting twists.
Fort Myers is now a stylish and expensive place to live.(16)But in 1885 when Edison fell in love with it, it was little more than a cow town on the Gulf of Mexico. It had about 200 people and several thousand head of cattle.
Over the years, Edison became good friends with automobile titan Henry Ford, who was a guest at Edison’s winter home and eventually bought his own place across the street. Today both houses are part of the same museum complex. Edison, Ford and tire executive Harvey Firestone set up a laboratory there at Edison’s place in Fort Myers.
(17)At the time, automobile tires were made from real rubber, imported from Africa. One company had a monopoly on the shipments, so Firestone and Ford asked Edison to come up with something they could make in the US.
Edison was trying to perfect a rubber-like substance made of a kind of plant named goldenrods(秋麒麟草)in 1931. As it turned out, others went on to develop artificial rubber, made of purely chemical compounds.
Thomas Edison came to love plants—the goldenrods, the banyan, and palm trees.(18)He gave tiny Fort Myers hundreds of palm saplings to plant along the main road. Today they form a beautiful canopy for which Fort Myers is famous.
16. What did Fort Myers look like in Edison’s time?
17. What do we know about automobile tires in the early 20 th century from the passage?
18. What do we know about Thomas Edison from the passage?
选项
A、They were transported from Asia.
B、They were made from natural rubber.
C、They were pretty costly.
D、They were rather durable.
答案
B
解析
短文中提到,那时,车辆的轮胎都是由非洲进口的天然橡胶制成。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3569699.html
相关试题推荐
[originaltext]M:What’shappeningwithyouressay?W:Well,I’vemadeastarto
[originaltext]M:Hello.W:Hello.(9)IsawyouradvertisementinthepaperandI
[originaltext]M:Hello.W:Hello.(9)IsawyouradvertisementinthepaperandI
[originaltext]M:Hello.W:Hello.(9)IsawyouradvertisementinthepaperandI
[originaltext]M:Yourhusbandisveryhelpful,isn’the?W:Maybeheiswilling
[originaltext]M:Yourhusbandisveryhelpful,isn’the?W:Maybeheiswilling
[originaltext]M:Yourhusbandisveryhelpful,isn’the?W:Maybeheiswilling
[originaltext]TheBrooklynpoetTracyK.SmithwinsPulitzeronherbirthda
[originaltext]Lookingtoimproveyourlanguageskills,butyoudonothave
[originaltext]Lookingtoimproveyourlanguageskills,butyoudonothave
随机试题
1968年世界医学会规定了医生确定死亡的道德责任和器官移植的道德原则是(
患者,缺失,为判断、是否有条件做基牙设计双端固定桥,最重要的一项检查是A.牙髓电
以下是根据牵伸力量来源和参与方式来分类的牵伸训练为:A.手法牵伸 B.器械牵伸
高效消毒法是指()。A.碘伏 B.通风换气 C.2%戊二醛 D.过氧
患儿男,5岁。发热伴腮腺肿大2天,诊断为“流行性腮腺炎”。该患儿适宜的护
从所给的四个选项中,选择最合适的一个填入问号处,使之呈现一定的规律性:
对于肝硬化引起的顽固性腹水,最有效的治疗方法是A.腹腔穿刺抽水 B.腹腔置管引
某18、17、16、15、25、26、27、28缺失者,末端基牙如果采用RPA.
根据车船税法的有关规定,下列各项中,应计算缴纳车船税的是()。A.警用车辆
经纬仪主要由()组成。A.三脚架、照准部和水平度盘 B.基座、照准部和三脚架
最新回复
(
0
)