Great inventors
伟大的发明家
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Inventors are very clever and they work really hard. Their works changed the world.
Long long ago, people wrote or drew on bamboo or silk(丝绸).
About 1900 years ago, Cai Lun improved paper-making technology.
People could write more on paper.
Thomas Alva Edison had lots of achievements in his life. You might still use candles or oil lamps at night without his durable light bulbs(耐用灯泡).

The Wright Brothers invented(发明) the first aeroplane.
They watched the eagles and made the first plane like a kite.
They tried many times, and finally they could fly high in the sky.
Do you like reading news and listening to music on the Internet?
If you do, then you will thank him—Tim Berners Lee. He made all the computers connected with each other on World Wide Web(环球信息网).
词汇积累
technology /tekˈnɒlədʒi/ /tekˈnɑːlədʒi/ n. 技术 achievement /əˈtʃiːvmənt/ n. 成就
finally /ˈfaɪnəli/ adv. 最终
Read and judge. 根据文章内容,判断正误,用T/F表示。
() 1. People could write more on bamboo.
() 2. The Wright Brothers invented the aeroplane by watching the eagles.
() 3. Tim Berners Lee invented World Wide Web.
() 4. The underlined word “connected” means “连接” in Chinese.
() 5. Cai Lun invented paper-making technology.

1. F 2. T 3. T 4. T 解析根据上下文可知,环球信息网的作用是让所有电脑互相连接,所以这个单词意为“连接”。 5. F