牛津深圳版英语九年级上册 Unit 2Great minds单元测试.

—Because the ________ in it are exciting.  

—You'd better not. It's bad for you ________ too much junk food.

    These days, cars are designed using computers. Let's look at how a new car is created.

    First，several  1 talk about the new car and some good ideas that they have. Then they sit down at their computers and   2 many sketches. The best two or three drawings are chosen and then more detailed drawings of 3 are developed on the computer. You can change the size, shape or colour of any part on the computer to see4 the car would look and then you can choose the best design.

    Both the inside and the outside of the car have to be designed. Part of the inside of the car is5 so that the designers can sit in it. They can feel if there is enough6 inside and if they can reach7. Then some cars are built—there are more than 15, 000 parts of a car to 8.

    When everything is known to be 9, the cars are made in the factory. Again, computers are used to make sure that all the parts are 10 as they are needed. The factory usually stays open all through the night so that the car production never stops.

    Charles Chaplin was born in London on April 16, 1889. His parents were music hall actors. The Chaplin family were very poor, and life was difficult in London.Charlie, as he was called, used to do his mother's job in the theatre when she was ill.

    When he was only 17 years old, Chaplin got his first real job as an actor. What he did wasto do silly things to make people laugh in the theatre. Seven years later hewent to the US. And over the next four years, he formed his own way of art. Hedeveloped the character（角色）of a homeless gentleman which became very popular.

    From the 1920s to the 1950s, Chaplin made his most famous films. The film Modern Times（1936）shows his careabout the modern industry workers. Many of his films describe the poor life andhard time of the working people during that period.

Although Charles Chaplin was British, he lived in the USA until 1953. But he never go to US nationality. Then Chaplin，his wife and his five children had to move to Switzerland where he lived until he died. When he was 83 years old, he won his only Oscar for the music he wrote for the film Limelight. He was named Sir Charles Chaplin at the age of 85. Charles Chaplin died in Switzerland on December 25th, 1977．

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    Not all inventions are made by scientists. Kids can also make history with their inventions.

    The state flagof Alaska was designed by 13-year-old Bennie Benson in 1926. His design was chosen from a flag-designing competition. It became the official flag in 1959. Bennie won a ＄1,000 scholarship（奖学金）and a watch.

    Frank Epperson invented the Popsicle in 1905 when he was only 11 years old. It was called the Epsicle at that time. Frank left his drink outside the door over night with a stick（木棒）in it. That night the temperature dropped and everything was frozen including Frank's drink. That didn't stop him from tasting it, so today we have Popsicles to eat.

    In 1642 Blaise Pascal designed the first counting machine when he was 18. The machine was forhis father, a tax collector, to make his job easier. Blaise named it “the Pasealine”. He made about 50 of them, but nobodywas interested in it. People thought it would take jobs away from them. 300 years went by, and the calculator（计算器）finally became a success. In 1968, the programming language（程序设计语言）, PASCAL, was named after him.

A: Hey, Gina. Do you want some ice cream?

B: No, thanks.

A: Really? Where are you going?

B: I'm going to play baseball. Do you want to come?

A: Sorry, I can't. 

B: Well, come later then. We're playing baseball all afternoon.

A: But I'm not very good at baseball.

B: Don't worry about that. You can just watch. Come on, it'll be fun.

A: Well, OK.

B: OK. See you!

    I'm John Wood, a doctor at a famous Boston hospital. During the first two years of high school, I found biology very  . My report cards always said things like “must study harder” or “John shouldn't choose science  .” It was really terrible for  who had always dreamed of becoming a doctor. I lost confidence, so I left high school at sixteen and  working at a supermarket.

    One evening I saw a documentary about Albert Einstein. According to the documentary, Einstein had done really  at school. I began to think that if Einstein could  , then I may have a chance, too. I didn't want to leave my job,  I decided to go to night school to finish high school. Two years later, I went to a  university.

    I've often thought I should contact the  from the Einstein documentary and  him. As for the biology teacher, I might contact her, too, one day—but not to thank her!

刘伟，无臂钢琴演奏者。他10岁时在一次意外中失去双臂，但他并没有放弃成为一名钢琴家的梦想。经过用脚刻苦地练习弹琴，他最终在“中国达人秀”（China's Got Talent）的舞台上实现了自己的梦想。请根据以上内容写一篇英语短文。

要求：1简要描述刘伟的经历；

2刘伟是我学习的榜样，是我心中的英雄，谈谈从他的经历中得到的启示；

3词数80左右。开头已给出，不计入总词数。

    Liu Wei, an armless piano player, has avery special experience.