高一英語Celebration教學案
7)my father (以及) my little brother has gone to beijing for the holiday.8)the stadium which (在建)will be used as the place of opening ceremony of 12th national games. 9)you (不應該)throw away the old bike and buy a new one. 10)when they (結婚)michael was the best men. 二、綜合閱讀the invention of the electric telegraph (電報) gave birth to the communications industry. although samuel b. morse succeeded in making the invention useful in 1837, it was not until 1843 that the first important telegraph line was built up. by 1860 more than 50,000 miles of lines connected people east of the rockies (落基山脈). the following year, san francisco was added to (加入到)the network. the national telegraph network strengthened(加強)the ties between east and west and contributed to the rapid expansion(擴張)of the railroads by providing an efficient ways to monitor schedules and routes (計劃和路線). furthermore, the extension of the telegraph, combined with the invention of the steam-driven rotary printing press (蒸汽驅動轉輪印刷機) by richardm. hoe in 1846, completely changed the world of journalism(新聞業). where the business of news gathering had been dependent upon the mail and on hand-operated presses, the telegraph expanded the amount of information a newspaper could supply and allowed for more timely(及時的)reporting. the building of the associated press(美聯社)as a central wire service in 1846 marked the arrival of a new era (紀元) in journalism. 1)the main topic of the passage is .a. the history of journalism b. the origin of the national telegraphc. how the telegraph network contributed to the expansion of railroadsd. the contributions and development of the telegraph network2)the word “gathering” in line 12 refers to .a. people b. information c. objects d. substances