第七課單字小考

一、文意填空
1. The owner of a computer store pays my brother to o______e the business for her.
2. Mom said she would m______d the hole in my jeans.
3. The only f______e in the living room was an old sofa.
4. After a period of r______n, Simon understood the mistakes he had made and resolved to do
better.
5. We took p______c cups and plates on the picnic so that there wouldn’t be any broken glass.
6. Peter says he has a new i______n that can make a bicycle go faster.
7. Our company uses the latest computer t______y to design new products.
8. Bernard was born and raised in a r______e village.
9. The remote island is d______t on a supply ship that arrives just four times a year.
10. The doctor said my f______t headaches are probably caused by work pressure.

二、課文填空
All over the world, millions of people suffer great _________. Many live in small huts with metal roofs and
no windows. These people can hardly _________ to have electrical power, and it goes _________ saying
that their homes are in _________ all day.
在全球各城市中，有數以百萬人的生活陷入困境。許多人住在鐵皮屋頂且無窗戶的小屋裡。這些人
幾乎負擔不起家中的電力費用，不用說一定是整日生活在黑暗中。

It _________ ______him _________ there was a way to bring light into his house.
這讓他想到，他有個辦法可以將光亮帶進他的屋子裡了。

After Alfredo lit up his own home, he made bottle lamps for his neighbors. They were _________ to have
more light in their homes as well. Soon, people far from his hometown were talking about his
_________. Bottle lamps even _________ _________ in other countries.
Alfredo 照亮自己家後，也替鄰居製作了瓶中燈。他們也渴望家裡有比較好的照明。不久，連遠在他
家鄉外的人們也對他的發明津津樂道。瓶中燈甚至還在其他國家流行起來。

A bottle lamp is a simple _________. It costs almost nothing to make and _________. Yet it is making life a
little easier for millions of people caught in the _________ _________. It is also a great _________ of how a
useful idea can grow.
瓶中燈是個再簡單不過的裝置。製作和安裝幾乎花不到什麼錢。但是卻讓幾百萬深陷貧窮陷阱的人
生活變得比較輕鬆。這也是一個妙點子如何發揚光大的最佳實例。