寻找英语阅读理解以rosa

A. 高中英语阅读题！求解答并希望网友给一些关于做英语阅读的答题建议（本人以前英语阅读一直很好，得分率高

建议，先看题目和备选答案，一般都是按顺序出现在文章中的，带着问题在文章中找答案。
先通看一遍题目，再一道题一道题中的去找。
做错多半是因为自己没有读懂。对完之后对答案后，再花点时间想当时的判断是如何出现错误的（是单词意思还是句子结构）。吸取教训
就本篇而言ABCDC
第一题：What does Salgodo want to tell students?
从第二段中：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.
选择A比较合适
第二题：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.对应b
But when the center changed locations, she took five bus routes to get to work and school.对应答案d
She met other challenges when her daughter had an accident about 10 years ago...对应答案c
综合上述答案应当为：B
第三题When studying at college, Rosa Salgado______
问这段时间的情况，对应的备选答案应从第三段文中找到并确认
A did research on childcare对应原文 She worked at the school's children center并没有提到research
B found it easy to get a degree.至少与上一道题的那些困难不符。
C recieved good grades in exams. 对应的原文是 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比较合适
第四题What's the attitude of Rosa Salgado's ....
从第四段第一句Salgado also received praise from her family.得出答案为D。支持
第五题是一道综合题，要熟悉各类文体的特点
一般storybook for children都是什么木偶奇遇记，青蛙王子、灰姑娘、白雪公主之类的充满幻想和奇趣的东西。
书评book review要介绍书中的一些内容，对作者和书的推荐等
事故报道，一般要介绍事情发生的时间、地点、原因，伤亡，救治等。
所以选C报纸比较合适，这是一年80岁的老人的励志故事，有一定的新闻性。

B. 寻找又快正确率又高的英语阅读理解的做题方法（注意要快 而且最好能全对 方法要简洁）

我做的时候是 先做7选5和改错 这个比较简单 容易进入状态 且准确率很高 不然答完了阅读专再去写这个的时候属 脑子已经乱套了
做阅读的时候正常顺序做就可以 但是写完第三个 就应该去看看作文题目 放松一下 四篇阅读题量还是很大的 大脑会比较疲倦 休息一下看看作文做到心中有数 然后再回来写第四个这个比较难的阅读 就会大幅度提高准确率
我高考时就是这么做的 阅读加上7选5都没有错

做题时还是应该先看题目 大致了解自己应在那一部分注意 会节省时间
然后阅读文章时 自己感觉重要的 便画下来 很有可能是考点
有选不出的时候 就先放弃 先选一个觉得可能对的 千万不要滞留太长时间影响后面的答题
答完后再进行阅读选择
希望对你有帮助 我是今年的考生~~

C. 寻找英语的阅读题，适用于高一下学期，难度中上。。。。

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 (单独的) 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 (细菌) 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 (精炼米). 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 (维生素). 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. 寻找初一的英语阅读试题，不要太短的。。谢谢了

Too Polite(礼貌过头了)
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 (试着) to stand up.
“Oh, no, thank you,” the woman forces (强迫) 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(最后) the old man shouts(大声喊), “I wants to get off(下车) 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）阅读短文，判断正误。正确的写“T”，错误的写“F”。
Mr Jones and Mr Brown work in the same office (办公室).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)阅读短文，选择正确答案。
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. 寻找江苏高考历年英语阅读理解

推荐买《抄十年高考》袭，里面会有09年各地的高考题，还会以专题的形式回顾江苏省10年来的高考题，阅读理解是其中一个版块。做这上面的题目很有效果的，做完之后你可以再背阅读理解和完形填空，甚至是单选，多背语感就会强的。其实背完型比背阅读理解更有效果，因为里面有很多语法的东西，可以提高英语综合能力。还有比较重要的是要多思考多整理，文章熟读就好，也没必要背诵，关键是理解，死记硬背是没用的。我高三就用了这本资料，而且每天做上面的题目，才得以保持语感。
相信我哦，我09年高考英语可是全校第二，现在我已经在北外啦~祝你明年高考好运，加油咯！~~

F. 寻找英语阅读理解以Rosa,Gina and Jason live in the same town开头的翻译

诶，如我所料，没有答案，不过我写完了，下面是我造福人类了
文章我就不打版了……好长
大致权就是3个人什么什么的 关于电影院什么什么的厄
好了 答案在此
DACCB 100%正确
厄，可能问题不一样，老师经常这样改，不过这种表格的也改不了多少
选项里面的
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，就这样了！
来，赞一个

G. 英语阅读理解、谢谢了。、

DCBC
希望对抄你有帮助
http://news.xinhuanet.com/e/2008-06/18/content_8390911_3.htm在这个网站里有

H. 寻找一篇英语阅读理解。

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)句空白处填上恰当的词使句意完整、上下文通顺:_________________________2. Why was it impossible for them to run away? _______________________________________.3. 将(2)句译成汉语。_______________________________________________________.4. 在文中找出与下列句子意思相近的句子:____________________________________ “Do you know what the man said?” the girl asked us.5. 找出文中或写出最能表达该短文主题的句子。_______________________________________________________________________

I. 英语阅读理解（翻译）谢谢！！！（不要网络翻译）

一天晚上，一个海马梦想着自己拥有七座金山。第二天，他想拿着7个金币去找那七座金专山。在路上，他遇到了属一条鱼。他告诉这条鱼他想找金山，但是他不会又太快。那条鱼告诉他，如果你给我你所有的金币的话我可以给你一个鱼鳍。你就会游得很快了。那只海马同意了，之后海马遇到了一条鲨鱼，他对鲨鱼说了同样的事情。鲨鱼对他说，你进到我的嘴里我就会很快地带你游到金山那里。海马觉得这是个不错的主意，于是他便又到了鲨鱼的嘴里。鲨鱼闭上嘴说，真香呐！

J. 急，找三篇常州初中英语阅读理解

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.

词数:39处理时间:2′09〃

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

A. 种类B. 数量C. 天敌D. 栖息地

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

本文词数:182参考时间: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. 哺乳动物

2. 意为:在自然界它们没有敌人,也从不争斗。

词数:39处理时间: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.

阅读新题型

本文词数:240参考时间: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. 标牌

2. type v. 打字

3. shock v.使震惊

词数:39处理时间:2′09〃

Task: Please put the following sentences in the blanks. 把下列句子还原到文中空白处。

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.

本期阅读答案

阅读A 1-3 A A B

阅读B 1-3 B C D

阅读新题型

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.

托马斯.阿尔法.爱迪生是一位诞生在好时代里的天才人物。

南北战争以后,美国正在成长壮大,各种条件对于象爱迪生这样有天才的人都是有利的。

爱迪生一家人在十八世纪早期从荷兰来到美国。托马斯·阿尔法生于1847年,是撒缪尔的七个孩子中最小的一个。

托马斯是一个好奇心特强的孩子。即使还在幼年时代,他就爱读书和做实验。因为

他如此爱好空想和不声不响,以致一位老师有一次骂他愚蠢。托马斯的母亲对这个评语很不高兴,她令孩子退学不再返校。母亲自己照管孩子的教育,教他阅读,教他历史、科学和哲学等。爱迪生读起书来,领会得快,而且过目不忘。有一次他异想天开,要从一所大图书馆的第一个书架看起,看完书架上每一本书。但在看完了书架上十五英尺厚的书籍后,他放弃了这个野心。

为了挣钱买书和搞科学实验,托马斯就出售他家菜园中的蔬菜。这工作挣不到足够的钱,所以他就开始在一列专跑休伦港、密执安和底特律的火车上卖报纸和糖果。因为人们在南北战争的高潮中急于了解战争的新情况,托马斯在1862年2月间,他十五岁时,决定在他所工作的火车行李车上印刷他自己的报纸《先驱周报》。四年之间他从这张报纸上赚了二千美元。

年轻的爱迪生在火车上工作时继续搞实验,在行李车上建立了一间实验室。有一天

一根磷棒掉在地板上使这节车厢着火。列车长十分生气,在下一个车站把汤姆和他的所有实

验设备都扔下了火车,还揍了汤姆一顿,造成永久性伤害,使爱迪生右耳聋了。

爱迪生在开办他的报纸后不久,有一天望见一个小孩在火车前面的铁轨上玩耍。他急忙从站台上跳下把小孩从火车轮子下抢救出来。这孩子的父亲正好是站长,他很感激,主动

提出要教会汤姆成为电报员。他在车站夜晚关门后,每周给他上四次课,三个星期之后爱迪生 便成为比他老师更好的电报员了。

就他的年龄来说,爱迪生很稳重,有独立性,但他见异思迁,而且对于衣着很不注意。 他开始从一个城市漫游到另一个城市,从一个

职业换到另一个职业。因为他的想法太离奇,

不能使雇用他的人满意,雇主们常常叫他卷铺盖走路。在这段时间里,他在印地安纳波利斯,辛辛那提,孟菲斯和路易斯维尔等城市都工作过。

爱迪生去到了波士顿,在那里有人答应给他电报员的工作,主要因为他的求职信中字迹写得工整。当他在波士顿露面时,他是如此的衣冠不整,怪里怪气,以致主管人叫他当天晚些时候去参加电报技术的考试,目的是要故意出难题,使这位青年考不及格。当电报迅速拍进来时,爱迪生意识到电报局的职工们是在和他开玩笑。他们已经和纽约市的电报员安排好,给爱迪生拍一份电报来,越拍越快,企图迫使爱迪生承认他抄不下这么快的电报。但爱迪生没有泄气。他决心以智取胜,于是他开始自己拍出一份电报。他对纽约市的电报员说：“来吧,别去睡觉,使劲吧！”这就结束了这场玩笑,爱迪生也赢得了他的职位,同时还赢得了西联电讯公司最快电报员的称号。

1869年爱迪生借了些钱去到纽约,他在纽约的头三年里,几乎饿死。他睡在一家公司的一间房子里,这公司专给纽约各商行提供股票行情。一天,那台印刷黄金行情的机器不动了。六百家银行和商行都收不到关于那天买进卖出的商情,爱迪生把这机器修好了,因此人家给了他一个经理的职位,月薪三百美元。他很

快地就努力改进这台机器,并且还发明了许多新部件。他当时发明的万能印刷机印出了关于金价的全部情报,而不只是以少数字母和数字来显示行情。这是他第一个巨大的成功,金价和股票电报公司的经理马歇尔。莱费兹将军出资四万美元把这台机器和爱迪生的其他几项发明买了下来。

爱迪生就拿这新到手的钱做生意。他在新泽西州纽阿克市开了一家工厂。很快地他就雇了一百五十人制造纪录股票行情的机器了,而他自己则继续试验他的一些新想法。有一段时间在他实验室里共有四十五个不同的发明项目,包括几项对于电报机的重要改进。他想出了一种方法,可从两个相反方向同时各拍出一份电报,随后又想出一种方法,可从一个方向同时拍两份电报。1874年他发明并售给西联电讯公司一种装置,用了它可以在一根电线上拍发四份电报,即从每一方向可同时拍发两份电报。他还改进了一种拍电报的新方法。使之趋于完善。这些发明,仅在电线和电线竿的成本上就为西联电讯公司节约了几百万美元。

西联电讯公司又向爱迪生建议：叫他试制一部商用电话,亚历山大.贝尔已经取得了电话机的专利,但贝尔的电话讥只能在短距

离内听见。爱迪生增大了几项改进,被采用了,这些改进直到今天仍然应用在电话上。西联电讯公司为他的几项发明付给爱迪生十万美元。

1876年,爱迪生在新泽西州门洛园建造了一个车间和实验室,由于他在那里搞出了许多奇妙的发明,以后他被人们称为“洛园的巫师”。他开始研究别人为发明白热电灯所作的尝试。他一次再一次地试制一种适子家用的柔光灯。在找到,种合用的材料之前,他竟试验了两千种以上的材料。他需要某种可放在抽去空气的玻璃容器内,通过电流后能变热并发出光来的材料。他花了十万美元寻找最好的材料。他派人去印度、中国、巴西,最后终于在日本找到了。

在1880年1月,他取得了电灯专利权。爱迪生在门洛园建造了一家生产电灯的工厂,并在纽约市建成了一座发电站。但是直到过十四年公众才真正接受他的电灯。在那以后,电灯业发展得规模如此之大。以致爱迪生出售他的电灯股票时,竟得了一百多万美元。

爱迪生一生中得到一千多种发明项

国的专利为了学习更多的科学并使科学为人类服务,他永不停息。他的各种发明为世界增加的财富可能比历史上任何一个人都多。

1931年10月18月,爱迪生在新泽西州奥兰奇城的家中去世,终年八十四岁。几天后全美国都停电一分钟以纪念这个以他的发明大大改变并改善了各地人民生活的人。