初中英语阅读理解集练——科普环保类

1、Famous Inventions and Their Inventors

X-rays were discovered in 1895 by a German professor, Wilhelm Roentgen. People all over the world were amazed by his invention, the X-ray machine. This invention was so important that Roentgen won the first Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901.

The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell, a doctor and speech teacher. The first phone call was made by Bell in 1876. He got acid(酸) on his pants by accident and wanted his partner, Thomas Watson, to help him. The first words spoken on the telephone were ―Mr. Watson, come here! I need you!‖

Television was invented in 1926 by John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor. Baird’s television certainly didn't look like a television today! Electronic televisions like the ones we have today were invented by Vladimir Zworykin in the 1920s in the United States.

The first computer was built in 1946 by two American engineers, J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly. It was developed for the army, and it was so lar ge that it took up the whole room! Later, in 1971, the ―microchip‖ was invented, and small home computers were first produced for personal use. Today computers are involved in almost everything we do and are found almost everywhere we go.

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【小题1】X-rays were discovered by a Scottish inventor in 1901.

【小题2】Wilhelm Roentgen won the first Nobel Prize for Physics.

【小题3】The telephone was invented by a German professor.

【小题4】The first television and the ones we have today looked the same. 【小题5】Two American engineers built the first computer in 1946.

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