甘肃省镇原县镇原中学2018-2019学年高二下学期第一次月考英语试题 Word版含答案
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  Fine food with beautiful jazz music; this is a great evening out. Charlotte Stone will perform songs from her new best-selling CD, with James Pickering on the piano. The menu is Italian, with excellent meat and fresh fish, pizzas and pasta(面食). Book early to get a table. Our bar is open all day, and serves cocktails, coffee, beer, and white wine.

  1. Who can help you if you want to have your music produced?

  A. Gee Whizz. B. Jules Skye.

  C. Charlotte Stone. D. James Pickering.

  2. At which place can people of different ages enjoy a good laugh?

  A. Kaleidoscope B. The Cyclops Theatre

  C. Victoria Stage D. Pizza World

  3. What do we know about Simon's Workshop?

  A. It requires membership status.

  B. It lasts three hours each time.

  C. It is run by a comedy club.

   D. It is held every Wednesday.

Thomas Edison was one of ten said to be the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all of the history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. "There is no such thing as genius," Edison said. He said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.

Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. "Work," he answered. "Discovering the secrets