[单项选择]When Benjamin Franklin was a child, he liked to read because _____.

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What does the birthday child do when he blows out the candles The birthday child secretly ______.

[单项选择]When Benjamin Franklin worked at his brother's printing shop _____.


A. he had no time to read books
B. he did not learn how to work very quickly
C. he could earn money after he signed the indenture
D. he could help his brother a lot

[单项选择]According to the passage, Benjamin Franklin was the first to prove that______.


A. lightning is caused by hail through supercooled clouds
B. thunderclouds are not charged with electricity
C. thunderclouds are charged with electricity
D. lightning was not an invention of the devil

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Benjamin Franklin just got a face-lift. And it’s about time. Over the past seven years, the Treasury Department has redesigned the ＄5, ＄10, ＄20 and ＄50 bills, citing counterfeiting (1) On April 21, the ＄100 bill (2) its fellows when the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) unveiled its latest bill. The ＄100 bill is the highest-denomination note in (3) and can weather more than seven years of (4) A humble ＄1 bill lasts only 21 months.
The American Revolution’s continental currency-the first attempt (5) national tender-did not have the same kind of (6) . So much of the money was produced to (7) the war that it quickly (8) . In 1863, Congress (9) the issuance of paper tender, much of which was easy to counterfeit. It is estimated that one-third of money circulating at the time was (10) . But that didn’t stop the government from producing (11) of it. By the
A. consciousness
B. tolerance
C. sincerity
D. concerns

[单项选择]As _____, Benjamin Franklin read a lot of books in polemic divinity.


A. his father was a clergyman
B. his father had a lot of religious books
C. he was fond of religious books
D. he intended to be a clergyman

[单项选择]Who invited Eliot to poem when he was a child


A. Ezra Pound
B. Whitman
C. Franklin
D. Edward Fitzgerald