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九年级1
一、语法填空
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Did Thomas Edison really invent the light bulb? The answer is no. The real ____1____ (invent) of the light bulb was Joseph Swan. He invented the electric light bulb in 1860. But Swan’s light bulb could not glow (发光) for a long enough time to be useful.
Ten years later, Thomas Edison decided ____2____ (improve) on Swan’s light bulb. He did a lot of experiments to find a ____3____ (good) bulb wire than before. Finally, he found the right one. It could glow for about 1,200 hours and, at the same time, it was cheap. In the 20th century, light bulbs ____4____ (begin) to be widely used all over the world. Even street lamps began to use light ____5____ (bulb) instead of oil. Since then, the light bulb has helped humans see things ____6____ (clear) anytime. It is one of the ____7____ (great) inventions in history.
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Tofu is________8________ kind of popular food in China. Here is one of the _______9_______(story) about how it was invented.
In the Han Dynasty, there was a man________10________ loved his parents very much. But they were _______11_______ old that they could only eat soft food, so the man decided________12________(cook) some soybeans(大豆) for them. He mashed the soybeans and made them into soup.
The soybean soup didn’t taste very _______13_______(good) in the beginning because there were too many soybean crumbs(碎屑) in it. The man took the crumbs away, _______14_______ his parents still didn’t like it. He thought and thought many times. At last he _______15_______(add) some salt and heated it again. When the soup cooled down, it turned _______16_______ a piece of jelly(胶状物).
The man was________17________(surprise) by its taste and his parents loved it very much. Finally, people around the country all learned how to make tofu. And this is how tofu was invented.
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Last year, I did not like my English class. Every class was like a bad dream. The teacher spoke so quickly ____18____ I could hardly follow her most of the time. I was afraid to ask que