四.阅读理解 (30分)          (A)

Thomas Edison was a famous American scientist . He was born in 1874 . When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked . He was in school for only three months . He asked his teacher a lot of strange questions . Most of them had nothing to do with his lessons . The teacher thought the boy was not bright was not worth(值得) teaching . When he told this to Edison’s mother, she took her son out of school . As she had been a teacher, she taught him herself .The boy read a lot . Soon he became very interested in science . At the age of ten , Edison had already built a chemistry lab(化学试验室) for himself .Ever since then , he had never stop searching (寻找) for new and better ways to do things .

(     )26.Edison was born in the          century .

A.eighteenth      B. nineteenth      C. nineteen      D.eighteen

(     )27.While he was in shool , Edison          .

A.studied his lessons very hard       B. was often late for school

C. liked to ask questions              D.was not bright enough to study

(     )28. Edison learned more from          .

A.his mother   B. his teacher     C. other boys     D. his father

(     )29.Young Edison was interested in           .

A.sports    B. playing games    C. making trouble     D.science

(     )30.He was always searching for new and better ways to do things after he      .

A. read books   B. finished school   C. built a lab     D. was taken of school