完形填空。The famous British inventor George Stephenson was born in 1781 and died in 1848. One of his most
important inventions was the train. He1his first train when he was forty-four years old. When he was
experimenting with the steam engine (蒸汽机)on the train,he met the2from other fields,the newspaper
journalists and the gentlemen in the country. They said that the noise and the smoke would3cows,
horses and sheep,that the engine would burst (爆炸) and that hot coals from it would set fire to their houses.
At that time,4people believed what they said.
George Stephenson5the people that the train could go on small6 ,and could pull carriages of goods
and passengers but there was no great danger to them. It was a very7 matter for him to make them
believe. However,after8he was able to do it and the first train that was driven by Stephenson himself
9what he had said.
The first day when the people along the way heard the noises of the train in the distance and saw it10
quickly to them,they ran back home as quickly as they could and closed their doors for they thought of it as
a monster (妖怪). They did not dare to come out until it had passed. ( )1. A. made
()2. A. success
( )3. A. buy
( )4. A. most
( )5. A. said
( )6. A. roads
( )7. A. easy
( )8. A. sometime
( )9. A. believed
( )10. A. run
B. bought
B. trouble
B. take away
B. few
B. spoke
B. rivers
B. difficult
B. some time
B. seemed
B. to run
C. introduced
C. people
C. interest
C. only a few
C. told
C. steam
C. pleasant
C. some times
C. sensed
C. running
D. did
D. pleasure
D. kill
D. the rich
D. warned
D. railways
D. light
D. sometimes
D. proved
D. runner
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