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话题读写思维训练
话题13 科技与生活(10年2考)
话题语篇读写练
Passage 3
河南英语KB
英语
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课标高频词句
1.remember doing sth.______________________
2.do chores________
3.Easier said than done.______________________
4.result in______
5.be short of______
6.go into a business________
7.go into production______
8.get in the way of__________
记得做过某事(已做)
做家务
说起来容易做起来难。
导致
缺少
做生意
投产
挡路,妨碍
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My father died when I was nine, and I remember doing chores to help my mother. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner(真空吸尘器) bag and picking up the things the machine . .1. . to take in.
Twenty years later, I was doing. .2. . at home with my wife and I had to empty the bag because I could not find a new one. I had always hated the way the machine worked and I decided to make a vacuum cleaner without . .3. ..
Easier said than done, of course. I didn't . .4. . that I would spend the next five years perfecting my design, a process that resulted in 5,127
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different prototypes(设计原型). By the time I made my 15th prototype, my third . .5. . was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really short of money. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some money. These were hard times, but each failure brought me closer to . .6. . the problem.
However, at first I. .7. . thought of going into a business with it. In the early 1980s, I started trying to get a license(许可证) for my technology. The reality(现实) was very . .8. ., though. The big vacuum makers made most of the money from bags. No one would license my idea, not because it was a . .9. . one, but because it was bad for business.
The unfairness gave me the . .10. . to keep going, but soon after, the companies that I had talked with started making machines . .11. . mine. I had to . .12. . to protect the patents(专利) on my invention. My invention didn't go into production . .13. . a bank lent me 1 million pounds in 1993. Within two years, my invention—the Dyson vacuum cleaner became a success in Britain.
Today, I still welcome. .14. . and failure as part of the proces