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items are simply not available in the bottom of a toy box or at your local Walmart.

14 almost all believed it would cost much 15 when they began, most robots built from

scratch cost between $ 200 and $ 400. Many people spend well over $ 1 000 and some, much more.

( ) 1. A. explanation B. instruction C. advice D. question

( ) 2. A. power B. strength C. force D. ability

( ) 3. A. interesting B. hard C. easy D. exciting

( ) 4. A. immediately B. honestly C. especially D. eventually

( ) 5. A. general B. fact C. common D. need

( ) 6. A. get B. enable C. cause D. make

( ) 7. A. discourage B. encourage C. convince D. satisfy

( ) 8. A. colour B. size C. date D. range

( ) 9. A. excitement B. enjoyment C. disappointment D. pleasure

( )10. A. recognize B. suggest C. permit D. believe

( )11. A. electric B. electrical C. electronic D. electricity

( )12. A. Therefore B. However C. Otherwise D. Besides

( )13. A. borrow B. buy C. lend D. build

( )14. A. Because B. Through C. Although D. Since

( )15. A. more B. cheaper C. higher D. less
三、 阅读理解

Herbert George Wells was born in England in 1866. He did not come from a rich family. His parents

had a small shop but it was not successful and closed when he was thirteen. He worked at different times

in a clothes shop and a chemist s. He always read a lot and later managed to get a place at a science

college. After he left there he became a teacher, but he was badly hurt while playing football and this

meant that he could not continue. He then worked in London, writing for newspapers and doing some

teaching of small groups. None of this made him much money.

The Time Machine was his first fictional work. It appeared in weekly parts in a magazine in 1894 and

as a book the following year. At the time, Wells was married to his second wife and was trying to support

both her and her mother. He needed to make money, so he wrote it quite quickly. Although he was never

really happy with the finished book, it was a great success and allowed him to continue as a writer.

It is not easy for us to understand how different this book was from others of the time. It is the first

real science fiction book. It introduces the readers to the idea of time as the fourth dimension, with the

three dimensions of space ten years before Einstein made it part of scientific thinking. Wells also describes

a simple mechanical answer to the problem of time travel—a time machine. Nobody had ever described

time travel in a machine before, and the words “time machine” entered the English language.

After the great success of this book, Wells wrote more science fiction. His most famous books are The

Island of Dr Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The War of the Worlds (1898) and The First

Men in the Moon (1901). All of them have been filmed, some more than once. H. G. Wells died in

London in 1946.