| When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he
always wanted to know about other things. He was always asking his father and
brothers "What", "How" and "Why" They couldn’t always tell him what he wanted to know. When they couldn’t tell him, Ben tried to find out the answers by himself. Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other boys would say, "That’s Ben Franklin! He’s always finding out something new!" Ben lived close to the water. He liked to go there to see the boats. He saw how the wind blew them across the water. One day Ben said to himself, "Why can’t the wind help me float across the water And I’m going to fly." Ben got his big kite. He took hold of the kite’s string and ran with it. The wind took the kite up into the air. Then Ben jumped into the water. The wind blew the kite high into the air. Ben began to [单项选择]When Spielberg was a boy, he used to be scared of ________。
A. making children laugh B. almost everything C. a lot of money D. his childhood memories E. telling scary stories F. a number of reasons [单项选择]
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Perhaps only a small boy trained to be a wizard at the Hogwarts School of Magic could cast a spell so powerful as to create the biggest book launch ever. Wherever in the World the clock strikes midnight on June 20th, his followers will flock to get their paws on one of more than 10m copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Bookshops will open in the middle of the night and delivery firms are drafting in extra staff and bigger trucks. Related toys, games, DVDs and other merchandise will be everywhere. There will be no escaping Potter mania. [单项选择]Perhaps Only a small boy training to be a wizard at the Hogwarts school of magic could cast a spell so powerful as to create the biggest book launch ever. Wherever in the world the clock strikes midnight on June 20th, his followers will flock to get their paws on one of more than 10 million copies of "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Bookshops will open in the middle of the night and delivery firms are drafting in extra staff and bigger trucks. Related toys, games, DVDs and other merchandise will be everywhere. There will be no escaping Pottermania.
Yet Mr. Potter’s world is a curious one, in which things are often not what they appear. While an excitable media (hereby including The Economist, happy to support such a fine example of globalisation) is helping to hype the launch of J. K. Rowling’s fifth novel, about the most adventurous thing that the publishers (Scholastic in America and Britain’s Bloomsbury in English elsewhere) have organised is a reading by Ms. Rowlin A. Harry Potter’s appeal for the readers is simply irresistible B. it is somewhat irrational to be so crazy about the magic boy C. craze about Harry Potter will not be over in the near future D. Hogwarts school of magic will be the biggest attraction world over [单项选择]Perhaps only a small boy training to be a wizard at the Hogwarts School of magic could cast a spell so powerful as to create the biggest book launch ever. Wherever in the world the clock strikes midnight on June 20th, his followers will flock to get their paws on one of more than 10m copies of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Bookshops will open in the middle of the night and delivery firms are drafting in extra staff and bigger trucks. Related toys, games, DVDs and other merchandise will be everywhere. There will he no escaping Potter mania.
Yet Mr. Potter’s world is a curious one, in which things are often not what they appear. While an excitable media (here by including The Economist, happy to support such a fine example of globalization)is helping to hype the launch of J.K. Rowling’s fifth novel, about the most adventurous thing that the publishers (Scholastic in America and Britain’s Bloomsbury)have organized is a reading by Ms.Rowling in London’s Royal Albert A. publishers are really adventurous in managing the Potter’s business B. businesses involved with Potter are moving along in an unusual way C. the media are promoting Potter mania more actively than Hollywood D. businesses are actually more credible than media in Potter’s world 我来回答: 提交
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