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history with their inventions. The state flag of Alaska was designed by 13yearold Bennie Benson in 1926. His design was chosen from a flagdesigning petition. It became the official flag in won a$1,000 scholarship(獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金 ) and a watch. Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was only 11 years old. It was called the Epsicle at that time. Frank left his drink outside the door overnight with a stick(木棒 ) in it. That night the temperature dropped and everything was frozen including Frank39。t stop him from tasting it, so today we have Popsicles to eat. In 1642 Blaise Pascal designed the first counting machine when he was 18. The machine was for his father, a tax collector, to make his job easier. Blaise named it “the Pasealine”. He made about 50 of them, but nobody was interested in it. People thought it would take jobs away from them. 300 years went by, and the calculator(計(jì)算器 ) finally became a success. In 1968, the programming language(程序設(shè)計(jì)語(yǔ)言 ), PASCAL, was named after him. ( ) old was Bennie Benson when he designed the flag? A. 13. B. 26. C. 46. D. 59. ( ) does the underlined word “Popsicle” mean in Chinese? A. 涼茶 B. 美味 C. 冰柜 D. 棒冰 A D ( ) did Blaise Pascal invent the calculator? A. Because he wanted to use it in a test. B. Because he wanted to make his father