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科目：英语
题型：完型填空
难度：中等
人气：1829

2011年四川省宜宾市中考英语试卷

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George Washington Carver was born in 1864. He was born a slave(奴隶). When he was still a baby, his mother was stolen. He was kept by his master.
All his life George loved 31 . When he was only seven years old, he already knew so 32 about plants that people in his hometown called him “the plant doctor”.
George wanted to learn as much as he could, but there was no   33 for black children where he lived. When he was ten, he left home to find a town that would allow   34 children to attend school. He studied in Missouri and Kansas   35 he finished high school. All this time he had to work to   36 his own expense(费用). He worked as a cook and opened his own laundry.
In 1890, George began college. At first he studied art, but he still had a   37 of plants. He began to study agriculture(农业). After he graduated, the famous inventor Thomas Edison asked him to work in his lab but George   38 . He had other   39 . He started an agricultural organization for black students in Alabama.
In those days, many   40  in the south grew only cotton. This was   41 to the soil(土壤). After a while the   42   would not grow as well. George Washington Carver wanted to help farmers in the south to grow plants like peanuts and sweet potatoes. These plants helped the 43 . Over the years he invented hundreds of ways to use these two plants.
George Washington Carver invented so many things that he was   44 “The Wizard(能手) of Tuskegee”. He died in 1943 at the   45 of 79.