二、完形填空。(每小题1分,共15分)
Alexander Graham Bell is often thought to be the "father of the telephone". However, there were many other scientists, like Elisha Gray and Antonio Meucci, who also developed a talking telegraph(电报机). It is not a simple thing to
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who is the "father" of something. The name often goes to the scientist of the most useful work, not to the one with the
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idea. This is exactly what happened to the telephone.
There has been a
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about who really developed the telephone. People have written articles and books about the subject. It is known that Bell got the patent(专利) for designing the telephone in 1876. He was the first to get the patent but he was not the first to think of the
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of a telephone. Antonio Meucci, an Italian scientist,
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building a talking telegraph in 1849. In 1871, he got a document that could prove he designed the machine. In later years, because of some
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, Meucci couldn't get a new document. His name in the history of the
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was then forgotten until his work was honoured(授予表彰) again on June 11, 2002.
Some studies on the patent application(申请) for the telephone have made things even more
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. Researchers say that Elisha Gray, a(n)
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at Oberlin College, and Bell applied for the patent on the telephone on the same day. These gentlemen didn't actually
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the Patent Office—their lawyers(律师) did. Researchers find in records that Bell's lawyer went to the office
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. The date was February 14, 1876. He was the fifth to get into the office that day and Gray's lawyer was the 39th. As a result, Bell got the patent and Gray's work was not honoured.
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, many people don't believe this story. They think that there had to be some
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or unfair actions by people working at the Patent Office, and
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even by Bell himself.
This long discussion is
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not coming to its end. But this question may not matter at all. After all, we could live in a very different world without any of the three scientists' great work.
(
B
)1. A. think B. decide C. predict D. imagine
(
D
)2. A. cool B. wonderful C. amazing D. original
(
A
)3. A. discussion B. talk C. conversation D. communication
(
B
)4. A. design B. idea C. product D. model
(
C
)5. A. continued B. kept C. began D. stopped
(
C
)6. A. risk B. success C. problem D. wisdom
(
B
)7. A. TV B. telephone C. radio D. computer
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D
)8. A. boring B. terrible C. pleasant D. interesting
(
A
)9. A. professor B. actor C. policeman D. architect
(
C
)10. A. tell B. phone C. visit D. use
(
B
)11. A. recently B. early C. late D. last
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D
)12. A. Besides B. Instead C. Also D. However
(
A
)13. A. dishonest B. unkind C. true D. clear
(
B
)14. A. certainly B. perhaps C. impossibly D. really
(
C
)15. A. even B. almost C. still D. already
