高中英语人教版book8 unit3语法填空

Inventors and inventions

When I called _______ my mother in the countryside on the telephone she was very upset. “There are some snakes in our courtyard,” she told me. “Snakes come near the house now and then, and they seem ____________(make) their home here, not far from the walnut tree. Can you get rid _____ them please?” I ______(feel) very proud. Here was a chance for me to distinguish myself ______ inventing something ______(mercy) that would catch snakes _____ not harm them. I knew my parents would not like me ________(hurt) these living creatures!

The first thing ____ I did was to see if there were any ______(product) that might help me, but there only seemed to be powders ________(design) to kill snakes. A new approach was ______(clear) needed. I set about ________(research) the habits of snakes to find the easiest way________(trap) them. Luckily these reptiles are small and that made the _________(solve) easier.

Prepared with some research ________(find), I decided ____ three possible approaches: firstly, removing their habitat; secondly, attracting them into a trap _________(use) male or female perfume or food; and thirdly cooling them so that ______ would become sleepy and could be easily caught. I decided to use the last one. I bought ____ ice-cream maker which was made of _______(stain) steel. Between the outside ______ the inside walls of the bowl there is some jelly, which _______(freeze) when cooled. I put the bowl into the fridge and ______(wait) for 24 hours. _____ the same time I prepared some ice-cubes.

The next morning I got up early _______ the sun was hot. I placed the _______(freeze) bowl over the snakes’ habitat and the ice-cubes on top of the bowl to keep it cool. Finally I covered the whole thing _____ a large bucket. Then I waited. _______ two hours I removed the bucket and the bowl. The snakes were less active _______they were still too fast for me. They ________(abrupt) disappeared into a convenient hole ______ the wall. ______ I had to adjust my plan.

For the second attempt I ________(freeze) the bowl and the ice-cubes again but placed them over the snakes’ habitat in the evening, as the temperature was starting to cool. Then as before, I covered the bowl with the bucket and left everything overnight. Early the next morning I returned ________(see) the result. This time _____ great caution I bent down to examine the snakes and I found them very sleepy. But once _______(pick) up, they tried to bite me. As they were ________(poison) snakes, I clearly needed to improve my design again.

My third attempt repeated ____ second procedure. The next morning I carried in my hand a small net ______(use) for catching fish. This was in the _________(expectat) that the snakes would bite again. But _______(monitor) carefully, the snakes ________(prove) to be no trouble and all went according ____ plan. I collected the passive snakes and the next day we _______(merry) released them all back into the wild.

________(Press) by my friends and relations, I decided to seize the opportunity to get recognition for my __________(success) idea by sending my _________(invent) to the patent office. Only after you have had that ___________(recognize) can you say that you are ________(true) an inventor. The criteria ______(be) so strict that it is difficult to get new ideas accepted _______ they are truly novel. _____ addition, no invention will get a patent _____ it is:

◎a discovery ◎a _________(science) idea or mathematical model ◎literature _______ art ◎a game or a business

◎a computer programme ◎a new animal or plant _________(various)

________ will you receive a patent until a search has been made to find out that your product really is _________(differ) from everyone else’s. There _____(be) a large number of patent _________(examine), too, _______ only job is to examine whether your claim is valid or not. If it _______(pass) all the tests, your application ______ a patent will be published 18 ________(month) from the date you apply. So I have filled _____ the form and filed my patent application with the Patent Office. Now it’s a matter of ______(wait) and hoping. You’ll know if I succeed by the size of my bank balance! Wish me luck!

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell _________(bear) in 1847 in Scotland, but when he was young his family moved to Boston, USA. His mother was almost _____(entire) deaf, so Alexander became interested in ________ (help) deaf people communicate and in deaf education. This interest led him ________(invent) the microphone. He found that by pressing his lips ______ his mother’s forehead, he could make his mother understand _______ he was saying.

He believed that one should always be curious and his most famous _____(say) was:

\"Leave the beaten track _________(occasion) and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain _______(find) something that you have never seen before. Follow it up, explore all around it, _____ before you know it, you will have something worth ________(think) about to occupy your mind. All really big discoveries ______(be) the result of thought.\"

It was this exploring around problems and his dynamic spirit _____ led to his most famous invention-the telephone in 1876. Bell never set out _____(invent) the telephone and _____ he was trying to design was a multiple telegraph. This _______(origin) telegraph sent a message over distances ______(use) Morse code (a series of dots ______(tap) out along a wire ____ a particular order). But only one message could go ____ a time. Bell wanted to improve it _____ that it could send several messages at _____ same time. He designed a machine that would separate different sound waves and allow different conversations _________(hold) at the same time. But he found the problem difficult_______(solve). One day as he was _________(experiment) with one end of a straw _______(join) to a deaf man’s ear drum and _____ other to a piece of smoked glass, Bell noticed that when he ________(speak) into the ear, the straw drew sound waves on the glass. Suddenly he had a flash of _______(inspire). If sound waves could __________(reproduce) in a moving electrical current, they could be sent ______ a wire. In searching to improve the telegraph, Bell had invented the first telephone!

Bell was _______(full) aware of the importance of his invention and wrote ____ his father:

“The day is coming _______ telegraph wires will be____(lay) on to houses just like water or gas–and friends will talk to each other _______ leaving home.”

The patent was given in 1876, but it was not until five days later that Bell sent his first telephone message to his ________(assist) Watson. The words have now become famous:

“Mr Watson - come here - I want to see you.”

Alexander Graham Bell was not a man to rest and he interested _______(he) in many other areas of invention. He experimented _______ helicopter designs and flying machines. While ________(search) for a kite strong enough to carry a man into the air, Bell experimented putting triangles together and _________(discover) the

tetrahedron shape. ________(be) very stable, it has proved ________(valuable) in the design of bridges.

Bell was ____inventor all his life. He made his first invention ____ eleven and his last at seventy-five. Although he is most often _______(associate) with the invention of the telephone, he was indeed a continuing _________(search) after ________(practice) solutions to improve the quality of everybody’s life.

Strange Patent Applications

I ______ _______ working in the ________ Patent Office after resigning from the _________ _________. _________ and _________, I never feel _________ while _________ _________the _________ of whether applications are _________ and _________ according to the new _________ of the _________.

从人事部辞职后，我开始在现在的专利局工作。我工作起来既称职又有活力，在投身于根据新版的申请标准鉴定专利申请，以防他们无效或不实用时，我从未感觉到消极没劲。

With the _________ of _________ their own importance, some people leave the _________ _________and_________ strange _________ with us_________ _________ _________, for example, _________that can be attached on your _________, _________ _________, _________ made of _________ and _________, _________ that nobody can bear to smell, and so on.

为了显示与众不同，时不时就有人违反常规，向我们提交一些奇怪的产品申请，例如固定在前额的信号灯、立方体的胡桃、用稻草和胶水制作的冰箱、没人能受得了的香水等

Once, a man made a _________ _________out of _________ _________ and _________. He called us up and _________ claimed it was _________ and _________ to use, and never_______ _______ ________. I asked him to_________ ________, but this _________ man just _________ _________and_________ _________ to fly from his _________. I _________ his number in the _________trying to _________him_________, but never_________ _________.

有一次，有个人用不锈钢丝和绳子制作了一架三角形的直升飞机。他致电给我们，高兴地声称其确实牢固，而且方便使用，从不发生故障。我请他稍等，但这个天真的人挂了电话就开始从院子里起飞。我拨打他在电话簿上的号码试图回电给他，却无法接通。

_________ God blessing, an _________ _________ _________made his _________ wet. Luckily, the trouble was without any_________ except that he crashed into a _________, making all the_________ fruits become messy _________. When people _________ this crazy man with _________ and sobered him by _________ his face, he complained about the bad weather instead of _________ his failure _________ his unscientific design.

仁慈的上帝保佑，一场突然降临的冻雨打湿了他的火药，使他造成的麻烦没有扩大，只是撞入一间水果店，把所有成熟的水果都压成一塌糊涂的果酱。当人们小心地抓住这个失去理智的人，轻轻拍打他的脸使他清醒过来时，他还在抱怨糟糕的坏天气，却没有将他的失败与他不科学的设计联系起来。