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When Ben Franklin was only a child, he always wanted to know about things. He was asking his father
and brothers "what" and "why".
They couldn't always tell him what he wanted to know. When they couldn't tell him, Ben tried to find
out for himself.
Many years Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other boys would say, "That Ben
Franklin! He is 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 am going to try."
Ben got his big kite. He took hold of the kite 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 float across the
water. Soon he was on the other side, and he had not worked at all.
One boy shouted, "Look at Ben floating across the water! His kite takes him to the other side without
work!"
"Yes," said another, "he is always finding new ways to do things."
1. When he was only a boy, Ben . [ ]
A. liked to fly a kite by himself
B. always asked long questions
C. always liked to play with water
D. always liked to find out how things worked
2. Ben Franklin floated across the water by taking him across it. [ ]
A. another boy
B. the water
C. the flying kite
D. a boat
3. He found out many things that . [ ]
A. children didn't know
B. his father and brothers knew
C. people didn't know
D. most people knew
4. The underlined sentence "he had not worked at all" in the passage means . [ ]
A. he worked hard to cross the water
B. he didn't go to work that day
C. he didn't cross the water at all
D. he crossed the water in an easy way
