八年级英语上册综合练习题(5)

初二英语

51. Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because ．

A．our country asks us to learn it B．it can help us a lot

C．we can use it to play games D．it can help us to find jobs

52. What do many teachers and parents complain about?

A．Their students and children use computers to play games．

B．Computers let them lost their jobs．

C．Computers make the students and children fall behind．

D．Computers bring people a lot of trouble．

53. In this passage we know computers ________．

A．also bring us trouble B．bring us happiness only

C．are hated by people D．are bad for people’ health

54. What does the underlined word “complain” mean?

A．抱怨 B．赞赏 C．考虑 D．解释

55. How do you understand the last sentence of this passage?

A．Computers are used by people

B．People can live well without computers

C．One must decide how to use computers

D．Computers are strange machines

(C)

Thomas Edison lost the first job. For the next five years he went around the country from job to job. At last Edison went to New York. He had little money. He could not buy enough food to eat. He had no place to sleep.

For many days Edison looked for work. He was hungry. At last he found work fixing machines. He could fix the old machines. He also made new ones. The head man liked Edison’s new machines. He was going to give Edison $ 40,000 for them. Edison would now have money to do what he wanted.

Thomas Edison was then 23. He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey. He had many people working for him. But he worked more than any of them. He rested very little. Soon he was making more than 40 new things at one time.

In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made a telephone. But it could carry voices only a little way. Edison wanted to make a better telephone. He soon made one. It could carry voices a long way.

56. After he lost his first job, Edison ________.

A. found no jobs in the next five years

B. lived in New York for the next five years