尋找英語閱讀理解以rosa

A. 高中英語閱讀題！求解答並希望網友給一些關於做英語閱讀的答題建議（本人以前英語閱讀一直很好，得分率高

建議，先看題目和備選答案，一般都是按順序出現在文章中的，帶著問題在文章中找答案。
先通看一遍題目，再一道題一道題中的去找。
做錯多半是因為自己沒有讀懂。對完之後對答案後，再花點時間想當時的判斷是如何出現錯誤的（是單詞意思還是句子結構）。吸取教訓
就本篇而言ABCDC
第一題：What does Salgodo want to tell students?
從第二段中：The 80-year-old woman hopes that her story will inspire other to see the importance of eudcation. ""I would say to students, young and old, that every day they have to fight to learn because learn is wonderful.
選擇A比較合適
第二題：What are the difficulties Salgado met at college?
答案在第三段中找：Salgado started school, in an English enviroment the first time.對應b
But when the center changed locations, she took five bus routes to get to work and school.對應答案d
She met other challenges when her daughter had an accident about 10 years ago...對應答案c
綜合上述答案應當為：B
第三題When studying at college, Rosa Salgado______
問這段時間的情況，對應的備選答案應從第三段文中找到並確認
A did research on childcare對應原文 She worked at the school's children center並沒有提到research
B found it easy to get a degree.至少與上一道題的那些困難不符。
C recieved good grades in exams. 對應的原文是 She still ended up graationg with honor和I'm very proud of her.
D had some personal shortcomings 文中所描述的是She had some personal diffculties.
所以C比較合適
第四題What's the attitude of Rosa Salgado's ....
從第四段第一句Salgado also received praise from her family.得出答案為D。支持
第五題是一道綜合題，要熟悉各類文體的特點
一般storybook for children都是什麼木偶奇遇記，青蛙王子、灰姑娘、白雪公主之類的充滿幻想和奇趣的東西。
書評book review要介紹書中的一些內容，對作者和書的推薦等
事故報道，一般要介紹事情發生的時間、地點、原因，傷亡，救治等。
所以選C報紙比較合適，這是一年80歲的老人的勵志故事，有一定的新聞性。

B. 尋找又快正確率又高的英語閱讀理解的做題方法（注意要快 而且最好能全對 方法要簡潔）

我做的時候是 先做7選5和改錯 這個比較簡單 容易進入狀態 且准確率很高 不然答完了閱讀專再去寫這個的時候屬 腦子已經亂套了
做閱讀的時候正常順序做就可以 但是寫完第三個 就應該去看看作文題目 放鬆一下 四篇閱讀題量還是很大的 大腦會比較疲倦 休息一下看看作文做到心中有數 然後再回來寫第四個這個比較難的閱讀 就會大幅度提高准確率
我高考時就是這么做的 閱讀加上7選5都沒有錯

做題時還是應該先看題目 大致了解自己應在那一部分注意 會節省時間
然後閱讀文章時 自己感覺重要的 便畫下來 很有可能是考點
有選不出的時候 就先放棄 先選一個覺得可能對的 千萬不要滯留太長時間影響後面的答題
答完後再進行閱讀選擇
希望對你有幫助 我是今年的考生~~

C. 尋找英語的閱讀題，適用於高一下學期，難度中上。。。。

A ★
When Christopher Columbus landed on the then unnamed Costa Rica in 1502, he saw many Indians wearing gold earrings. So he thought the land must be rich in gold. He named the place Costa Rica, which means 「rich coast」 in Spanish.
Though little gold was found, Costa Rica today is indeed rich with coffee and bananas. Coffee is the most important proct in Costa Rica and most of it is exported (出口) to other countries like America and West Germany. Bananas are the country』s second most important export.
Costa Ricans also grow many other crops such as fruits, corn and beans for their own use. Costa Ricans love colors and their houses are painted in bright colors.
Ecation is very important to the Costa Ricans. Almost every village has a school and ecation is a must for children between seven and fourteen years of age. Boys and girls go to separate (單獨的) schools. Classes begin in March and end in November. The other three months of the year are harvest time and the children have to help their parents to pick coffee beans.
56. What』s the main idea of the first paragraph?
A. How Columbus found Costa Rica.
B. How Costa Rica got its name.
C. What the Costa Ricans wore.
D. What language the Costa Ricans spoke.
57. The Costa Ricans may NOT paint their houses ______.
A. pink and red B. grey and black
C. blue and green D. yellow and orange

58. In Costa Rica, boys and girls between seven and fourteen ______.
A. must go to school
B. study in the same school
C. do not have to go to school at all
D. can choose to stop schooling at any time
59. From December to February, school children in Costa Rica ______.
A. have lessons every day
B. have their examinations
C. help their parents pick coffee beans
D. help their parents decorate their houses
60. This passage is mainly about ______.
A. Christopher Columbus B. Costa Rica
C. some procts from Costa Rica
D. the ecation of Costa Rica

B ★
Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the island had a disease called beri?鄄beri. He was going there to try and find a cure.
At first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ (細菌) caused beri?鄄beri. He raised some chickens. He didn』t eat them, but made experiments on them. The local people were quite surprised at that. One day he noticed that his chickens became sick when they were fed the food most Javanese ate — refined white rice (精煉米). When he fed them with unrefined rice, also known as brown rice, they recovered. Eijkman realized that he had made an important discovery — that some things in food could prevent disease. These things were named vitamins (維生素). The Javanese were not getting enough vitamins because they had actually removed the part that contains vitamins. Later, other diseases were also found to be caused by the lack of vitamins in a person』s food.
Today many people know the importance of vitamins and they make sure they have enough vitamins from the food they eat. If they don』t, they can also take vitamin pills.
61. The underlined word 「cure」 in Paragragh 1 probably means ______.
A. a medical treatment B. a kind of vitamin
C. a kind of germ D. a kind of rice
62. Christian Eijkman went to the island of Java to ______.
A. spend his holiday
B. find ways to grow better crops
C. do some research about the island
D. help the Javanese with their illness

D. 尋找初一的英語閱讀試題，不要太短的。。謝謝了

Too Polite(禮貌過頭了)
There are many people in the bus. Some have seats, but some have to(不得不) stand. At a bus stop, a woman gets on the bus. An old man hears the door and tries (試著) to stand up.
「Oh, no, thank you,」 the woman forces (強迫) him back to the seat. 「Please don't do that. I can stand.」
「But, madam(夫人), let me…,」says the man.
「I ask you to keep your seat(坐在你的座位上)，」 the woman says. She puts(放) her hands on the old man's shoulder(肩膀).
But the man still(仍然) tries to stand up,「Madam, will you please let me…?」「Oh, no,」says the woman. She again(又) forces the man back.
At last(最後) the old man shouts(大聲喊), 「I wants to get off(下車) the bus!」
( )1.All the people have seats in the bus.
( )2.An old man gets on the bus at a bus stop.
( )3.The old man wants to give his seat to he woman.
( )4.The woman sits the old man's seat.
( )5.The old man wants to get off the bus.
(一)(1)× (2)√ (3)× (4)× (5)√
(二)(1)× (2)× (3)× (4)× (5)√
（A）閱讀短文，判斷正誤。正確的寫「T」，錯誤的寫「F」。
Mr Jones and Mr Brown work in the same office (辦公室).One day Mr Jones says to Mr Brown , 「I will have a small party at our house on Monday evening . Would you and your wife like to come ?」 Mr Brown says , 「Thank you very much . I』d love to , but let me ask my wife first .」 So Mr Brown goes to the other room and telephones his wife . Then he comes back and looks very worried . 「What』s the matter?」 asks Mr Jones . 「Is you wife there at home ?」 「No,」 answers Mr Brown . 「She isn』t there . My small son answers the telephone . I say to him , 『Is your mother there , David ?』 and he answers 『No , she isn』t in the house.』『Where is she ?』 I ask ,『She is somewhere outside(在外面) .』『What』s she doing?』 『She is looking for me .』」
1．There is a party at Mr Jones』s house on Monday evening .
2．Mr Jones asks Mr Brown and his wife to go to the party .
3．The telephone is in Mr Brown』s office.
4．Mr Brown speaks to Mrs Brown on the telephone .
5．Mrs Brown is looking for her son .
(B)閱讀短文，選擇正確答案。
One Sunday morning Mr Green and his child , Bill ,are in a big shop . Mr Green wants to buy a new blouse for Mrs Green . Bill likes oranges , so his father buys two kilos(公斤)of oranges for him , too . Bill wants to buy some picture—books and colour pencils , too . There are many people in the shop . They are men and women , old and young . They all want to buy something there .
6．Mr Green goes to the shop with ——.
A．Mrs green B．his son C．his daughter D．his father
7．Mr Green wants to buy a new blouse for ——.
A．Bill』s mother B．Bill C．his friend D．other people
8．Bill likes—— .
A．all the things B．the new blouse C．oranges D．orange
9．Bill wants to buy ——.
A．some picture—books B．some colour pencils C．clothes in the shop D．A and B
10．The shop is—— .
A．empty B．close C．full of children D．full of people
答案:（A）1.T 2. T 3. F 4. F 5. T （B）6.B 7. A 8. C 9. D 10. D

E. 尋找江蘇高考歷年英語閱讀理解

推薦買《抄十年高考》襲，裡面會有09年各地的高考題，還會以專題的形式回顧江蘇省10年來的高考題，閱讀理解是其中一個版塊。做這上面的題目很有效果的，做完之後你可以再背閱讀理解和完形填空，甚至是單選，多背語感就會強的。其實背完型比背閱讀理解更有效果，因為裡面有很多語法的東西，可以提高英語綜合能力。還有比較重要的是要多思考多整理，文章熟讀就好，也沒必要背誦，關鍵是理解，死記硬背是沒用的。我高三就用了這本資料，而且每天做上面的題目，才得以保持語感。
相信我哦，我09年高考英語可是全校第二，現在我已經在北外啦~祝你明年高考好運，加油咯！~~

F. 尋找英語閱讀理解以Rosa,Gina and Jason live in the same town開頭的翻譯

誒，如我所料，沒有答案，不過我寫完了，下面是我造福人類了
文章我就不打版了……好長
大致權就是3個人什麼什麼的 關於電影院什麼什麼的厄
好了 答案在此
DACCB 100%正確
厄，可能問題不一樣，老師經常這樣改，不過這種表格的也改不了多少
選項裡面的
1：D cousins
2: A the biggest screens
3: C three times a year
4: C by bike
5: B is the most expensive
厄，就這樣了！
來，贊一個

G. 英語閱讀理解、謝謝了。、

DCBC
希望對抄你有幫助
http://news.xinhuanet.com/e/2008-06/18/content_8390911_3.htm在這個網站里有

H. 尋找一篇英語閱讀理解。

People have different ways to express love. Once, our teacher asked us to talk about it. There were all kinds of answers. Someone said we could use flowers to express love; someone said we could use languages;(1) someone said we could _____ troubles and happiness _____ each other. A girl told us a true story. A young man and his wife were both biology scientists. They often did some research on wild plants in the forest. They had a clever girl and they loved each other. One day, they went to the forest as usual. But when they climbed up the hill, they were frightened. A lion was watching them. They didn』t bring a gun with them. It was impossible to run away. Their faces got pale and they stood there without moving. The lion stood there, too. (2) After a few minutes it came up to them slowly, and then it ran faster and faster. It came in front of his wife. Just at that time, the man shouted in a loud voice and began to run away. The lion turned around and began to run after the man. Lions prefer to attack the running person. It is the lion』s character. After a while, the man was killed by the lion. The woman came back safely.The girl asked us if we knew what the man had said. All the students gave one of these two answers. One was, 「Honey, sorry.」 And the other was 「Hurry, run」. But the girl said we were all wrong. The man shouted to his wife loudly, 「Take care of Lily. Live happily.」 At last, the girl said, 「At the most dangerous moment, my dad ran away alone. He used the special way to show his love.」1. 在(1)句空白處填上恰當的詞使句意完整、上下文通順:_________________________2. Why was it impossible for them to run away? _______________________________________.3. 將(2)句譯成漢語。_______________________________________________________.4. 在文中找出與下列句子意思相近的句子:____________________________________ 「Do you know what the man said?」 the girl asked us.5. 找出文中或寫出最能表達該短文主題的句子。_______________________________________________________________________

I. 英語閱讀理解（翻譯）謝謝！！！（不要網路翻譯）

一天晚上，一個海馬夢想著自己擁有七座金山。第二天，他想拿著7個金幣去找那七座金專山。在路上，他遇到了屬一條魚。他告訴這條魚他想找金山，但是他不會又太快。那條魚告訴他，如果你給我你所有的金幣的話我可以給你一個魚鰭。你就會游得很快了。那隻海馬同意了，之後海馬遇到了一條鯊魚，他對鯊魚說了同樣的事情。鯊魚對他說，你進到我的嘴裡我就會很快地帶你游到金山那裡。海馬覺得這是個不錯的主意，於是他便又到了鯊魚的嘴裡。鯊魚閉上嘴說，真香吶！

J. 急，找三篇常州初中英語閱讀理解

A little Brave Girl
A little Brave Girl

It is a true story.

This story was set in at the end of 2004 Zhejiang, when a ten-year old girl walked on her way to home from school as usual, she was being kidnapped off guard
by three men, whom are over 30 years of age, be tall, strong, and are very experienced in kidnapping. For just a split second, the girl was got in a car and didn』t know where she would head, but she didn』t burst into tears like others probably have done in her age, was unusually sober and figured out what has just happened. After short deliberation, she gave her parents telephone number to three
kidnappers after she was asked twice. Kidnappers shortly send short message to
her parents to tell what they did a moment ago for the ransom of RMB500,000 as they commands, threatened them with their daughter』s life. Her parents were at their wits' end at that moment and later had to dial police for helping. During closely watched by two kidnappers, the girl were pleased to cooperate with them in three meals, water, and spoke something to them for delaying. Luckily, kidnappers are very emotional and were amazed at what the girl said when it comes to money, 「 I know clearly you are impossible to kill me, you need money most of all
, but you should know money doesn』t grow on trees, but on painstaking hands.」
The girl said, 「 Uncle, you have probably had children like me, if you children
are in the danger of kidnapping, how then do you think? …」 Finally, the kidnappers were profoundly moved by her reasonable words, and policemen easily seized them about two days later, now they do their time.

Soon after, a journalist wanted to disclose the reason why such a little young
girl is so wise upon the curious queries from the public, but the girl』s parents definitely rejected to accept visit, because they are afraid of kidnapping again as everyone would probably know her. But her main teacher briefly told that
the school often takes 「 Keep a head ring a crisis, to be wise and brave.」 as a compulsory lesson to ecate pupils, this girl are brave enough to practise
this lesson. Also, the girl said she was sort of scared but must to eat enough to keep energetic so as to fight against the kidnappers as long as she could.

Through this story, I deeply feel that the importance of ecation. Nothing is
more important than to receive ecation. Ecation, is absolutely not complete
with graation, is a lifelong study and bound to exert a great impact on our future. Further, the value of ecation. We should not ecate children only for
the aim of ecation, our foremost purpose is to fit them for life.

We can see bats in almost every part of the world but they can』t live in very hot or very cold places. They live on all continents but do not live on Antarctica. You can find most species of bats in the places where the weather is nice and warm.
On some islands there are only a few kinds of bats. That』s because it』s too far for most bats to get to those islands.
In the United States, the greatest number of bats live in the south-western part of the country. This place has all kinds of places where bats can live and there is a lot of food ring most of the year. For example, Texas has 32 different kinds of bats while Maine has only 8; Arizona has 28 species, but Michigan has just 10.

詞數:39處理時間:2′09〃

Questions:1. The underlined word "species" in the first paragraph means "______"in Chinese.

A. 種類B. 數量C. 天敵D. 棲息地

2. We can learn from the passage that _____.

A. bats like warm places

B. bats live everywhere in the world

C. the US has the most bats in the world

D. bats don』t like living on islands

3. The passage mainly tells us ____.
A. how bats live B. where bats live

C. bats』food D. bats』life

B

本文詞數:182參考時間:2′32〃

In warm water, there is a kind of sea mammal1 called gongs. They live a comfortable life. They have no natural enemies and never fight2.Dugongs lived in the oceans ring the age of dinosaurs. They have funny faces and no front teeth! Their teeth grow only along the sides of their mouth. Some think they are ugly. Only their mothers may love them, but as we know, they are important and helpful for us!
Dugongs only eat plants. They swim slowly so that they can eat the sea grass. They often dig down into the sand and eat sea-grass roots. Dugongs relax ring the day. During most of the night, they eat. They eat noisily and you can often hear the sounds of their chomping teeth.
Dugongs give birth to only one baby every three to five years. They take the newborn baby to the surface of the water so that the baby can take its first breath of air. It stays with its mother for two years and sometimes rests on its mother』s back. Dugongs feed their young with milk.
Dugongs can live for about 60 years, but every year more and more people move to near the warm coasts and rivers which are also the homes to gongs. They have fewer places to live and feed.

Notes:

1. mammal n. 哺乳動物

2. 意為:在自然界它們沒有敵人,也從不爭斗。

詞數:39處理時間:2′09〃Questions:

1. Which one is the best title for this article?

A. The Kind Animal

B. Dugongs』Lives

C. Dugongs Are Nice
D. Mother Loves Dugongs

2. The underlined words "chomping teeth"mean __________.

A. washing teeth

B. changing teeth

C. eating loudly

D. opening the mouth

3. Which one is TRUE?
A. Dugong babies live with their mother when they are 3 years old.

B. Dugongs eat animals and plants.

C. Dugongs give birth every year.

D. Dugongs can live for as long as 60 years.

閱讀新題型

本文詞數:240參考時間:6′00〃

A man was looking for office help. He put a sign1 in the window: "HELP WANTED. Must know how to type2 and speak two languages, and be good at the computer."1 The man was surprised, but led him into the office. Inside, the dog jumped on the chair and looked at him.
The man said, "I can』t give you this job. The sign says you must know how to type." The dog jumped down, went to the typewriter, and typed out a perfect letter. 2 The man was shocked3, but told the dog, "The sign says you have to be good at the computer." The dog went to the computer and wrote out the same letter on it.
The man looked at the dog and said, "You』re a very clever dog. 3 "
The dog looked at the man and said, "Meow!"

Notes:

1. sign n. 標牌

2. type v. 打字

3. shock v.使震驚

詞數:39處理時間:2′09〃

Task: Please put the following sentences in the blanks. 把下列句子還原到文中空白處。

A. He took out the piece of paper and gave it to the manager.

B. However, I still can』t give you the job, because the sign also says that you need to speak two languages.

C. A short time later, a dog came to the window, saw the sign and went inside.

本期閱讀答案

閱讀A 1-3 A A B

閱讀B 1-3 B C D

閱讀新題型

1-3 C A B

Thomas Alva Edison was a man of wonderful ability who

had the good luck to be born at a good time. In the period

just after the American Civil War the United States was

growing conditions were right for the talents of a man like

Edison.

The Edison family had come to the United States from Holland

in the early part of the l8th century． Thomas Alva the

youngest of Samuel』s seven children was born in 1847.

Thomas was an unusually curious child． Even at an early age

he loved to read and make experiments． Because he was so

dreamy and quiet a teacher once accused him of being stupid．

Thomas』s mother was so displeased by this remark that she took

her son out of school and never sent him back. She took charge

of his ecation herself and taught him reading history

science and philosophy． Edison was a very quick reader and he

remembered everything． Once he got the idea of starting at the

first shelf of a large library and reading everything in it．

But after reading through fifteen feet of books he gave up

this ambition.

In order to earn money for books and for his scientific

experiments Thomas sold vegetables from the family garden.

This work did not bring in enough money and so he began to

sell newspapers and candy on a train that ran between Port

HuronMichigan and Detroit． Because people were so eager for

the latest news about the CiviI War which was then at its

height Thomas decided in February 1862 when he was fifteen

years old to print a newspaper of his own the Weekly Herald,

in a baggage car of the train where he worked．In four years he

earned two thousand dollars from thisbusiness.

While he worked on the train young Edison continued to

experiment setting up a laboratory in the baggage car. One day

a stick of phosphorus feIl to the floor and set thecar on

fire． The conctor of the train as so angry that he threw Tom

and all his equipment off the train at the next station； he

also struck Tom causing a permanent injury which later made

him deaf in the right ear.

One day not long after he had started his newspaper, EdiSon

saw a child playing on the tracks in front of a train. He

jumped off the station platform and snatched the child from

the wheels of the train. The father who happened to be the

stationmaster was so grateful that he offered to teach Tom to

become a telegraph operator．He gave him lessons four days a

week after the station had closed for the nightand in three

weeks Edison was a better telegrapher than his teacher.

Edison was sober and independent for his age, but hen was

restless and very careless in his dress． He began to wander

from city to city and from job to job． Because his ideas were

too strange to please the men who hired him,they often asked

him to leave． During this time, he worked in Indianapolis,

Cincinnati, Memphis, and Louisville．

Edison went to Boston's where he had been promised work as

adegraph operator, mainly because of the neat handwriting in

his letter of application, When heappeared in that city, he

looked so untidy and strange that the superintendent asked him

to return later in the day to take a test in telegraphy, with

ihe idea of making ihe test so diffcult that the young man

could not possibly pass it, As the rapid message came in,

Edison realized clerks in the station were playing a joke on

him. They had arranged for the new York operator to send him a

message, faster and faster,in an effort to make Edison admit

that he could not write it down at such a rapid pace, But

Edison was not discouraged. He decided to outwit these

fellows, and he began to send a message himself. He said to

the New York operator,「Come on, don』t go to sleep．Get busy!

That ended the joke, and Edison won his job, as weil as the

title of fastest telegraph operator in the Western Union

Company.

In 1869 he borrowed some money and went to New York． During

the first three years he spent there, he nearly died of

starvation. He slept in a room belonging to a company that

sent information on stock prices to the business houses of New

York． One day the machine that printed news about gold

stopped． Six hundred banks and business houses were without

information about what was being bought and sold that day.

Edison succeeded in repairing the machine, and he was then

offered a job as manager for $300 a month． He was soon hard at

work making improvements in the machine and inventing new

parts． His Universal Printer, invented at this time, printed

full information about gold prices, instead of showing them

only by a few letters and numbers． This was his first big

success． GeneraI Marshall Lefferts, president of the Gold and

Stock Telegraph Company, bought this and several other

inventions of Edison's for forty thousand dollars.

Edison then put his new money to work． He opened a factory

in Newark,New Jersey． Soon he had over one hundred and fifty

men building machines to record stock prices, while he himself

continued to work on new ideas. At one time, he had forty-five

separate inventions in his laboratory, including several

important improvements of the telegrilph. He invented a way of

sending two messages at the same time in opposite directions,

and then a way of sending two messages at the same time in the

same direction,In 1874 he invented and sold to Western Union a

system by which four messages could be sent over one wire at

the same time, two in each direction. He also perfected a new

system for sending telegrams. These inventions saved Western

Union milhons of dollars in the cost of wires and telegraph

poles alone.

Western Union then suggested to Edison that he try to

develop a commercially useful telephone, Alexander Graham Bell

had already patented the te1ephone, but Bell's telephone could

be heard only over short distances． Edison added several

improvements, which were adopted, and are still used in the

telephone today． Western Union paid Edison one hundred

thousand dollars for his inventions.

In l876 he built a workshop and laboratory in Menlo Park,

New Jersey． He was known after that as he Wizard of Menlo

Park,because of the wonderful discoveries he made there, He

began to study the attempts of other men to invent an

incandescent electric light． He tried over and over again to

make a soft light that would be suitab1e for use in private

houses． He tested over two thousand materials before

discovering one that would work． He needed something that

would become hot and give off light when electricity passed

through it in a glass container from which the air had been

removed． He spent a hundred thousand dollars searching for the

best material． Men were sent to India, China, Brazil, and

finally, Japan, where a material was finally found.

In Jalluary,1880, the electric light was patented. Edison

then built a factory for the proction of his light in Menlo

Park, and an electric power station in New York City. But it

was fourteen years before the public really accepted the

electric light． After that, the electric light business grew

So great that Edison was able to sell his share in the

electric light for more than one million dollars.

Edison patented over one thousand separate inventions ring

his life, He never stopped trying to learn more about science

and what it could do for man, His discoveries probably

increased the wealth of the world more than those of any other

single man in history.

On October l8,1931,Edison died at the age of eighiy-four at

his home in Orange, New Jersey． Several days later, the whole

United States turned off its electric lights for one minute,

in honor of the man whose discoveries had so changed and

improved the life of people everywhere.

托馬斯.阿爾法.愛迪生是一位誕生在好時代里的天才人物。

南北戰爭以後,美國正在成長壯大,各種條件對於象愛迪生這樣有天才的人都是有利的。

愛迪生一家人在十八世紀早期從荷蘭來到美國。托馬斯·阿爾法生於1847年,是撒繆爾的七個孩子中最小的一個。

托馬斯是一個好奇心特強的孩子。即使還在幼年時代,他就愛讀書和做實驗。因為

他如此愛好空想和不聲不響,以致一位老師有一次罵他愚蠢。托馬斯的母親對這個評語很不高興,她令孩子退學不再返校。母親自己照管孩子的教育,教他閱讀,教他歷史、科學和哲學等。愛迪生讀起書來,領會得快,而且過目不忘。有一次他異想天開,要從一所大圖書館的第一個書架看起,看完書架上每一本書。但在看完了書架上十五英尺厚的書籍後,他放棄了這個野心。

為了掙錢買書和搞科學實驗,托馬斯就出售他家菜園中的蔬菜。這工作掙不到足夠的錢,所以他就開始在一列專跑休倫港、密執安和底特律的火車上賣報紙和糖果。因為人們在南北戰爭的高潮中急於了解戰爭的新情況,托馬斯在1862年2月間,他十五歲時,決定在他所工作的火車行李車上印刷他自己的報紙《先驅周報》。四年之間他從這張報紙上賺了二千美元。

年輕的愛迪生在火車上工作時繼續搞實驗,在行李車上建立了一間實驗室。有一天

一根磷棒掉在地板上使這節車廂著火。列車長十分生氣,在下一個車站把湯姆和他的所有實

驗設備都扔下了火車,還揍了湯姆一頓,造成永久性傷害,使愛迪生右耳聾了。

愛迪生在開辦他的報紙後不久,有一天望見一個小孩在火車前面的鐵軌上玩耍。他急忙從站台上跳下把小孩從火車輪子下搶救出來。這孩子的父親正好是站長,他很感激,主動

提出要教會湯姆成為電報員。他在車站夜晚關門後,每周給他上四次課,三個星期之後愛迪生 便成為比他老師更好的電報員了。

就他的年齡來說,愛迪生很穩重,有獨立性,但他見異思遷,而且對於衣著很不注意。 他開始從一個城市漫遊到另一個城市,從一個

職業換到另一個職業。因為他的想法太離奇,

不能使僱用他的人滿意,僱主們常常叫他卷鋪蓋走路。在這段時間里,他在印地安納波利斯,辛辛那提,孟菲斯和路易斯維爾等城市都工作過。

愛迪生去到了波士頓,在那裡有人答應給他電報員的工作,主要因為他的求職信中字跡寫得工整。當他在波士頓露面時,他是如此的衣冠不整,怪里怪氣,以致主管人叫他當天晚些時候去參加電報技術的考試,目的是要故意出難題,使這位青年考不及格。當電報迅速拍進來時,愛迪生意識到電報局的職工們是在和他開玩笑。他們已經和紐約市的電報員安排好,給愛迪生拍一份電報來,越拍越快,企圖迫使愛迪生承認他抄不下這么快的電報。但愛迪生沒有泄氣。他決心以智取勝,於是他開始自己拍出一份電報。他對紐約市的電報員說：「來吧,別去睡覺,使勁吧！」這就結束了這場玩笑,愛迪生也贏得了他的職位,同時還贏得了西聯電訊公司最快電報員的稱號。

1869年愛迪生借了些錢去到紐約,他在紐約的頭三年裡,幾乎餓死。他睡在一家公司的一間房子里,這公司專給紐約各商行提供股票行情。一天,那台印刷黃金行情的機器不動了。六百家銀行和商行都收不到關於那天買進賣出的商情,愛迪生把這機器修好了,因此人家給了他一個經理的職位,月薪三百美元。他很

快地就努力改進這台機器,並且還發明了許多新部件。他當時發明的萬能印刷機印出了關於金價的全部情報,而不只是以少數字母和數字來顯示行情。這是他第一個巨大的成功,金價和股票電報公司的經理馬歇爾。萊費茲將軍出資四萬美元把這台機器和愛迪生的其他幾項發明買了下來。

愛迪生就拿這新到手的錢做生意。他在新澤西州紐阿克市開了一家工廠。很快地他就雇了一百五十人製造紀錄股票行情的機器了,而他自己則繼續試驗他的一些新想法。有一段時間在他實驗室里共有四十五個不同的發明項目,包括幾項對於電報機的重要改進。他想出了一種方法,可從兩個相反方向同時各拍出一份電報,隨後又想出一種方法,可從一個方向同時拍兩份電報。1874年他發明並售給西聯電訊公司一種裝置,用了它可以在一根電線上拍發四份電報,即從每一方向可同時拍發兩份電報。他還改進了一種拍電報的新方法。使之趨於完善。這些發明,僅在電線和電線竿的成本上就為西聯電訊公司節約了幾百萬美元。

西聯電訊公司又向愛迪生建議：叫他試制一部商用電話,亞歷山大.貝爾已經取得了電話機的專利,但貝爾的電話譏只能在短距

離內聽見。愛迪生增大了幾項改進,被採用了,這些改進直到今天仍然應用在電話上。西聯電訊公司為他的幾項發明付給愛迪生十萬美元。

1876年,愛迪生在新澤西州門洛園建造了一個車間和實驗室,由於他在那裡搞出了許多奇妙的發明,以後他被人們稱為「洛園的巫師」。他開始研究別人為發明白熱電燈所作的嘗試。他一次再一次地試制一種適子家用的柔光燈。在找到,種合用的材料之前,他竟試驗了兩千種以上的材料。他需要某種可放在抽去空氣的玻璃容器內,通過電流後能變熱並發出光來的材料。他花了十萬美元尋找最好的材料。他派人去印度、中國、巴西,最後終於在日本找到了。

在1880年1月,他取得了電燈專利權。愛迪生在門洛園建造了一家生產電燈的工廠,並在紐約市建成了一座發電站。但是直到過十四年公眾才真正接受他的電燈。在那以後,電燈業發展得規模如此之大。以致愛迪生出售他的電燈股票時,竟得了一百多萬美元。

愛迪生一生中得到一千多種發明項

國的專利為了學習更多的科學並使科學為人類服務,他永不停息。他的各種發明為世界增加的財富可能比歷史上任何一個人都多。

1931年10月18月,愛迪生在新澤西州奧蘭奇城的家中去世,終年八十四歲。幾天後全美國都停電一分鍾以紀念這個以他的發明大大改變並改善了各地人民生活的人。