阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从1—10各题所给的A、B、C和D项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Philo Farnsworth, the inventor of one of the country’s greatest machines was actually born in a log cabin,
1 to high school on horse back and without
2 of university degree（indeed, at age 14）, thought of the idea of electronic television. In 1906 Farnsworth was born in a community near Beaver City, Utah,
3 by his grandfather.
4 he was 12, his family moved to a ranch （大牧场）in Rigby, Idaho, which was four miles from, the nearest high school,
5 necessitating（使成为必要）his daily horseback rides. Because he was interested in the electron and electricity, he persuaded his chemistry teacher, Justin Tolman, to give him
6 instruction and to allow him to listen to a senior course.
The death of his father forced him to leave at the end of his second year, but, as it
7 , at no great intellectual cost. There were, at the time, no more than a handful of men
8 the planet who could have understood Farnsworth’s idea for building an electronic television system, and it’s
9 that any of them were at this local community. One such man was Vladimir Zworykin who had moved to the US from Russia with a Ph. D in electrical engineering. He went to work for Westinghouse with a dream of building an all-electronic television system. But he wasn’t
10 to do so.
| 小题1: | | A．rode | B．ran | C．drove | D．jumped |
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小题2:
| A．sake | B．application | C．benefit | D．significance |
| 小题3: | | A．lived | B．settled | C．inherited | D．occupied |
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| 小题4: | | A．Because | B．When | C．However | D．Until |
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| 小题5: | | A．thus | B．then | C．finally | D．yet |
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| 小题6: | | A．important | B．interesting | C．special | D．vivid |
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| 小题7: | | A．turned out | B．showed up | C．bore out | D．reflected on |
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| 小题9: | | A．necessarily | B．essential | C．false | D．unlikely |
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| 小题10: | | A．possible | B．capable | C．thoughtful | D．able |
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