【正文】 ll Their Inventions to Producers? B. How to Design a Built in Device for Cleaning the Window? C. Shouldn39。 s invention C. carry out the requirements by Mountain University D. prepare students to try their own invention 34. Tommy Lee39。 s course aims to _____. A. add color and variety to students39。 s equally impossible to picture a world without Katherine J. Blodgett39。 s hard to imagine driving without Garrett A. Man39。 s invention, said Tommy Lee, a senior physics major. I never would have dreamed of tuming my bad experience during a rain storm into something so constructive. Lee is currently negotiating to sell his patent to an umbrella producer. So, just what is the story behind the windshield wiper? Well, Mary Anderson came up with the idea in 1902 after a visit to New York City. The day was cold and stormy, but Anderson still wanted to see the sights, so she jumped aboard a streetcar. Noticing that the driver was struggling to see through the snow b covering the windshield, she found herself wondering why there couldn39。 s developed a course on the topic. In addition to learning who invented what , however, Mclean also likes her students to learn the answers to the why and how questions. According to Mclean, When students learn the answers to these questions, they are better prepared to recognize opportunities for inventing and more motivated to give inventing a try. Her students agree. One young man with a patent for an unbreakable umbrella is walking proof of McLean39。life through scotch and soda. They knew, each one of them, that their productivity had ceased(停止 ). When a fruit tree ceases to bear its fruit, it is dying. And it is even so with man. What is the answer to a long and happy existence in this world of ours? I think I found it long ago in a passage from the book of Genesis which caught my eye while I was looking through my Bible. The words were few, but they became memorably impressed on my mind. In the sweat. of the face shall you eat the bread. To me, that has been a challenge from my earliest recollections ( memories). In fact, the battle of life, of existence, is a challenge to everyone. The immortal words of St. Paul, too, have been and always will be a great inspiration to me. At the end of the road I want to be able to feel that I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith. 28. Which of the following is indicated in the first paragraph? A. Wealth results from honest effort. B. The men seated at tables in the locker room are lost in the significance of life. C. For some people, no way can be found to escape the realities of life other than scotch and soda. D. The men acquire wealth by planting fruit trees. 29. The underlined sentence In the sweat of the face shall you eat the bread means _ A. Bread tastes delicious when sweat pours off your face B. No pains, no gains C. Failure is the mother of success D. Bread es from the sweat on your face 30. We learn from the passage that the author_______ . A. was a wealthy person in the munity B. held a positive attitude towards an active life C. was fond of associating with celebrities (名人 ) D. kept a secret of the reason why he was so impressed 31. What is implied in the passage by the writer? A. To use wealth properly, eat, drink and be merry. B. Where there is a will, there is a way. C. As life is but like a dream, a man is like a fruit tree. D. If you cease to struggle, you cease to live. D We know the famous onesthe Thomas Edisons and the Alexander Graham Bells but what about the less famous inventors? What about the people who invented the traffic light and the windshield wiper (雨刮器 ) ? Shouldn39。 s records quickly 26. What can we learn about John Jackson from the report? A. He must have filed his Delayed Baggage Report already. B. He couldn39。s parents taught her language by talking a lot 22. According to the last two paragraphs, the author39。s father spoke English poorly C. the author couldn39。 stories cannot be told。s mind and mouth: her mind was not any less clear, but the words she spoke were not what she meant. The battle my mother faced taught me the importance of language. Without it, identity does not exist。s softly accented, or my mother39。 mother as a strong woman. She came to America when she was 12old enough to remember her language, she achieved scores and grades high enough to be admitted to Duke University. With a degree in puter science, she finally became the manager of a pany in New York. My mother could give fluent speeches, say wolves correctly. It was my mother who always stressed the importance of language. From the time l was born,1 was read to. 1 would fall asleep to the sounds of my parents39。 18. Ho