Question

       Jules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828 and died in 1905. He read a great many scientific books and wrote a number of exciting books about the things which he thought that scientists and inventors would one day be able to do. Years later, many of the things really happened. At that time, however, his stories seemed like fairy tales.

       Jules Verne’s most famous book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.（A league is an old word meaning a distance of about three miles）. In those days submarines had not been invented but he described an underwater ship very like a modern one.

       Many of the things Jules wrote about in his books more than a hundred years ago to look into the future, however, were surprisingly exact. In his book From the Earth to the Moon he wrote at the age of about forty, three men and a dog made a journey around the moon in a hollow ship fired from a gun. After going around the moon, they returned to the earth and splashed down into the sea not far from where the first real moon traveler landed in July, 1969.

 

68. Jules wrote a lot of exciting books partly because he _______.

     A. liked to do much reading on science    

     B. liked reading fairy tales

     C. was a great inventor

     D. was a famous scientist

69. Some of what Jules described in his books _______.

     A. is almost the same as what happened years later

     B. is quite different from what happened years later

     C. never comes true

     D. seems impossible to the people today

70. Many of the things really happened _______.

     A. as soon as Jules’ books were published

     B. some years after his books were published

     C. at that time

     D. when Jules was in his forties

71. The thing Jules described in his book From the Earth to the Moon is _______.

     A. as large as the spaceship today

     B. similar to the spaceship today

     C. a gun used to send up a ship

     D. an underwater ship

Answer 1

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