On a hot African morning, Leila was lying on her stomach and an elephant was walking towards her. Leila waited. Then she pushed the button on her camera. “And I got my best photo of an elephant ever, by lying under my car,” Leila explained. “I wanted to get close to the elephants, but of course this was dangerous; they had their babies with them. So every morning I used to park my car in the open near the path (小道). They used to take the same path every morning when they left the water hole. After a week, they were used to seeing my car. So the next morning, I lay under it and got my photo!”
Many of the best wildlife photos come from good planning. In Africa, photographers set up their hides (隱匿處) near water holes. They also set up hides near forest paths, as animals use the same paths every night. For bird-watching, many lakes have hides. Inside the hides, bird-watchers can watch all day in the shade (蔭處) out of the wind and rain.
Good wildlife photos are needed for books, postcards, magazines and newspapers. But a success rate of 1 in 20 is good.
【小題1】Why did Leila lie under her car on the stomach?

There _______ lots of popcorn in the kitchen last night.

　　The year was 1849. Americans were moving west across the country. Men set up camps near gold fields. Early settlers built their homes on open land. The Army got busy building forts(堡壘) .

　　All of these people needed the same kind of help. They needed food, clothes, and other goods. A few brave men came to help. They were the “truckers” of the old West.

　　The early truckers carried goods, like the truckers of today. But they didn't have trucks then. They used long lines of wagons(四輪馬車) . Mules(騾) or oxen(牛) pulled the wagons. The trips were dangerous. The truckers had to fight off robbers. The roads were bad.

　　One of the early truckers was William Russell. In one year, his company sent out two and a half million pounds of goods from Kansas. His business grew, until 1969. In that year, railroad trains began to steam across the country.

1．Why couldn't people in the old West get their goods fast?

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2．This story is mostly about ________ .

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3．The truckers of the old West are like today's ________ .

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4．The wagons form Kansas must have gone ________ .

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5．Why did the wagons lose business after 1868?

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Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.

Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work, ” he answered back, “discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

1.Edison was______________.

A．interested in changing people’s ideas

B．interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C．very much uninterested in nature

D．uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

2.Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A．Many other people have changed Edison’s life.

B．Edison has changed the lives of many other people.

C．Only a few men in history can change other people’s lives.

D．Edison invented the electric light.

3.The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(意指)___________.

A．people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 year’s work

B．Life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

C．Edison made 100 inventions in his life

D．Edison was able to live and work for 100 years