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    The first pencil was a bunch(束)of graphite (石墨)sticks held together by string. Then someone thought it would be better to put the graphite into a hollow(中空的)wooden stick. Joseph Rechendorfer was the first person to think of putting a piece of rubber (橡皮)onto the top of a pencil which makes it really easy to rub out mistakes.

   This is what an old airplane looked like. The Wright Brothers invented one of the first airplanes. It was called Kitty Hawk.

    Do you know the first bicycle that was made in 1817 by Baron von Drais didn’t have any pedals(踏板)? People walked it along.

The first metal bicycle was High Wheel or Penny-farthing. People had a hard time keeping their balance on this type of bicycles.

   Do you know the first toy balloon,made of vulcanized (被石充化的) rubber,was thought up by someone in the J. G. Ingram company in London,England,in 1847?

(   ) 1. Who invented the pencil?

A. The Wright Brothers.  B. Joseph Rechendorfer.

C. Baron von Drais.  D. The writer     doesn’t  tell us.

(   ) 2. Which  of the following inventions was invented by only one person?

A. The toy balloon.  B. The metal bicycle.

C. The airplane一Kitty Hawk.  D. The pencil.

(   ) 3. For the first metal bicycle,it’s hard for people         .

A. to buy it     B. to fix it

C. to keep their balance on it     D. to make it  run

(   ) 4. From the table,we can know         .

A. Kitty Hawk was the name of an inventor

B. Baron von Drais made the first     bicycle  without pedals

C. Penny Farthing invented the     first metal  bicycle

D. the first bicycle was made at the end of the nineteenth century 

(   ) 5. The table mainly tells us         .

A. the history of some inventions

B. when the pencil was invented

C. the first toy balloon was made in the nineteenth century

D. how the first airplane was made

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