初二下册英语课外阅读(二)

初二年级下册英语课外阅读（二）

班级：__________ 姓名：___________

综合填空阅读短文，从方框中选择恰当的词并用其适当形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整，每词限用一次，其中有两个词是多余的。

One day, a man was sitting inside his house and reading a book. The sun was shining, and the wind was (1) through the open window. The man lit (点燃) a candle on the table.

The flame (火焰) on the candle (2) very bright. After a few (3) , the candle turned to the man and said, “Look how bright I am, sir.”

“Yes,” said the man. “You are a very bright candle.”

(4) , the flame became much brighter. “Am I the brightest candle you have ever seen?” asked the candle.

“Yes,” said the man. “You are the brightest (5) I’ve ever seen. You give off (发出) much (6) .”

The candle bragged (吹嘘), “You know, sir, I (7) I give off more light than the sun. Yes, I know for sure. I am even

(8) than the sun high in the sky.”

Just then the wind blew in through the (9) and blew out the flame on the candle.

The man (10) as he lit the candle again. “Candle,” he said, “I don’t think you should brag any more. The sun shines all the time, but you can’t.”

Robin Li

Life Is About Creating Yourself

You may have heard the name Robin Li. After all, Robin li's been referred to as "the man who took on Google and won." Thanks to his creation of Baidu, China's largest search engine in China. But, what do you really know about the 49-year-old man?

Born in 1968，Li was the 4th of 5 children born to factory workers in Yangquan of Shanxi Province in northern China. Back then, Yangquan was an underdeveloped city that did not offer much to its people. Like most of the kids in the neighborhood, Li spent his childhood in hardships and lack of better education. His mother,

however, taught him to stay motivated for a better tomorrow. He grew up remembering his mothers words, "We don't have a good background, if you want a better life,a better job in the future you will have to stud hard and ensure you get into the best college. ” Li never forgot his mother's words and studied religiously.

He cleared the entrance of Peking University and completed Bachelor of Science degree in library information management.

He later completed a postgraduate course for computer science with a master's Degree at the University of Buffalo, the State University

of New York. In the early stages of the development of search

engines, Robin Li, as one of the earliest researchers in the world, created ESP technology and successfully applied it to the search

engine.

At the end of 1999, bearing a dream of" changing people’s life with science and technology", Robin Li returned to China and founded Baidu. After years of effort, Baidu has become the most popular Chinese website in China, the largest Chinese search engine and the largest Chinese website Under the leadership of Robin Li, Baidu established one of the most impressive search engine technical teams in the world. Its management team, product design team, development team and maintenance team are also among the best in China. Baidu brought a new possibility to the nations search engine operating pattern and enabled more companies to share Internet achievements.

New words and expressions:

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