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As a young girl, Margaret “Mattie” Knight never played with dolls, preferring to make toys for her brothers instead. In 1849, Knight went to work in a cotton factory where she witnessed a “shuttle,” a device that carries thread back and forth across a textile loom（纺布机）, fly off the machine when the thread broke, striking and killing a young boy about her own age.
The 12-year-old Knight developed a safety mechanism that made it impossible for a shuttle to leave the loom. The design was so effective, soon virtually every new power loom carried her invention, saving countless workers from injury or death. Being so young, she didn’t bother to patent the device, so she never received payment.
Knight wouldn’t make the same mistake later in life when she invented a machine that could produce flat-bottomed paper bags. Knight had built a small wooden model in her home, but she needed a metal version to show it could hold up to the stress of mass production. So she hired Charles Annan to make the full-sized machine for her, only to have him try to claim the patent for himself. When Knight sued（起诉）, Annan’s argument was that the design had to be his, because no woman could possibly understand the complex mechanics. Knight proved him wrong when she brought back her wooden prototype and explained how every part worked. She won the case in 1871, making her the second woman to hold an American patent. Over a hundred years later, her design is still used as the basis for many modern flat-bottom bag machines.
But that wasn’t the last the world heard of Mattie Knight. During her lifetime, she made about 90 inventions and received 26 patents, becoming one of the most productive female inventors of the 19th century.
小题1:We can learn from Paragraph 1 that ________.

A．Knight behaved like boys	B．Knight had an unhappy childhood
C．Knight did a poor job of making toys	D．Knight liked inventing things as a child

小题2:What do we know about Knight’s first invention?

A．It is still used today.	B．It brought her great profit.
C．It was made when he was 20.	D．It reduced injuries at textile plants.

小题3:Knight sued Charles Annan because he _______.

A．stole the wooden model for the machine she invented.

B．failed to make the full-sized machine for her

C．tried to patent her invention for himself

D．kept the metal version for himself

小题4:What would be the best title for the text?

A．Mattie Knight’s fight for her patent	B．A great woman in the 19 th century
C．“The female Edison”, Mattie Knight	D．Great inventions, great woman

The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind , first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .
Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
小题1:The book Gone with the Wind was _________.

A．first published on a newspaper

B．awarded ten Academy Awards

C．written in “The Dump”

D．adapted from a movie

小题2:The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.

A．be very pleased with

B．show great respect for

C．be much taller than

D．show little interest in

小题3:Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?

A．Because she was rich enough.

B．Because she was injured then.

C．Because her husband didn’t like it.

D．Because she wanted to write books.

小题4:We can know about Margaret Mitchell from the passage that _________.

A．her height made her marriage unhappy

B．her interest in writing continued as an adult

C．writing stopped her working as a reporter

D．her life was full of hardship and sadness

小题5:Which is the best title for the passage?

A．A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.

B． Gone with the Wind : A Huge Success.

C．An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.

D．Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.