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    Frank did not patent (……专利权) the invention.  He was too busy with his discoveries to make more money. Although he was a rich man by the time he was forty-two. Money by itself did not interest him. He valued it because it enabled him to retire from business. Then he had time to spend it on other things that seemed more worthwhile. What he really cared for most of all was science?

    Franklin was always trying to answer the question. What makes things act the way they do? At that time learned men were puzzled about electricity. They wondered whether it was in some way like the lightning in a thunder-storm. It might be, but how could you prove it? You know how Ben Franklin proved in by coaxing() some electricity down his kite string. That made him famous in America and Europe. But of course Franklin did not stop there.

    He found a way to make the knowledge useful: he invented the lighting rod.

1 According to the second sentence, Franklin ________.

Awas eager to make money

Bhad no interest in making money

Cwas so attentive to his discoveries that he had no time to make money

Ddidn’t know how to make money

2Franklin valued money because ________.

Ait could make him live a comfortable life after he retired from work

Bit enabled him to get rid of much business

Cit was the thing he cared for most

Dit enabled him to buy a lot of things

3Franklin’s experiment with the kite ________.

Awas not successful

Bdidn’t work

Cpuzzled many learned men at the time

Dproved that lightning was electricity

4After the experiment, Franklin ________.

Astopped there and enjoyed his happy life

Bdidn’t stop there and gave lectures to others

Cdidn’t stop there and invented the lightning rod

Dstopped there and found a way to make money

 

答案:C;B;D;C
提示:

1.       too…to太…而不能,他太忙于发现无法去赚钱

2.       从第一段第三句话可以看出,他所看重钱的方面是钱能使他摆脱一些商业活动

3.       第二段倒数第二行,通过风筝线引下一些电

4.       课文最后一句话提到没有停下脚步而是发明了避雷针

 


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