/ 让学习更有效 新课备课备考 | 英语学科 / 让学习更有效 新课备课备考 | 英语学科 2025-2026学年八年级英语上册单元复习考点培优沪教版（2024）Unit 4 Inventions 专题13 任务型阅读 学校:_____姓名：_____班级：_____考号：_____ Thomas Edison made more than 1,000 inventions in his life. Many of his inventions have changed the world. His first invention was a vote recorder (投票记录器) in 1869. The machine allowed people to place a vote by pressing a button. They didn’t need to say yes or no. However, American government officials did not like Edison's invention because they preferred to call out their votes. Edison learned that he would never again invent anything people did not want. Edison started a company with his friend, Franklin Pope. They made fire and burglar (盗窃) alarms. At this company, Edison was busy from early in the morning until late at night. He often said, “There’s no substitute (替代品) for hard work.” He invented a telegraph to print the price of gold and silver. He sold it to the West Union Company for $15,000. With some of this money Edison started his own company in 1868. Next he invented a stock ticker (证券报价机). This was a machine that recorded the price of stocks in New York. The West Union Company paid Edison $40,000 for this invention. Edison used the money to open a shop in Newark in the state of New Jersey. There he met a young woman, Mary Stilwell. Edison and Mary got married on Christmas Day in 1871. They had three children. In 1875, with his wife and young family, Edison moved to Menlo Park in the same state. There he built his own laboratory. In the laboratory were tables, science books, instruments and bottles of chemicals. His first success at Menlo Park was an improvement (改进) on the telephone that Alexander Graham Bell had just invented. 1．What did Edison learn from his first invention 2．What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean 3．When did Edison have a company of his own 4．Who moved to Menlo with Edison 5．Do you dream of being an inventor Why (not) 阅读下面的短文，回答文后的问题。 Bitwalking is an invention made by a small company in London. To make people walk more, this new app on the mobile phone is paying people for walking, which is based on (在……的基础上) their daily walking steps. With this app, walkers can earn one “Bitwalking dollar” for about 1, 000 steps (about 8 kilometers). Three bitwalking dollars can be earned by one person per day at most. The money people earned can be spent in special online stores or exchanged for cash. One goal behind the app is to make people healthier. But the designers also have another goal: to improve people’s lives. In poor countries, people have to walk far to work, or to school, or simply to collect water. Workers in the countryside earn less than one dollar a day. By walking around with the Bitwalking app, they could earn three times more. The company has also set up Bitwalking centers in some poor areas. At the centers, local people will learn ... ...
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