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When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking
his father and brothers "What?" and " How?" and "Why?".
They couldn't always tell him what he wanted to know.
When they couldn't tell him, Ben try to find the answer by himself.
Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other 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 blow them
across the river.
One day Ben said to himself, "Why can't the wind help me float (漂浮) across the water? And I'm
going to try." Ben got his big kite. He took hold of the kite's sting 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 sky. Ben began to float across the water. Soon he was on the
other side, and he did not work at all.
One boy shouted, "Look at Ben floating across the water! His kite takes him to the other side without
any work!"
1. When he was a child, Ben _____. [ ]
A. liked to fly a kite by himself
B. always asked easy questions
C. always liked to play with water
D. always liked to find out how things worked
2. His father and brothers ____. [ ]
A. couldn't answer all his questions
B. could answer all his questions
C. tried hard to find out something new for him
D. were too busy to answer his questions
3. How did Ben Franklin float across the water? [ ]
A. The other boy took him across it.
B. The water carried him across it.
C. The flying kite took him across it.
D. A boat took him across it.
4. 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
5.In the passage,"and he did not work at all" 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
