Question

Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21,1833,but moved to Russia with his parents in 1842, where his father ,Immanuel, made a strong position for himself in the engineering industry. Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War, but went bankrupt soon after. Then , the family returned to Sweden in 1859, where Alfred began his own study of explosives in his father’s lab. He had never been to school or university but had taught himself, and by the time he was twenty, he became a skillful chemist and excellent linguist, speaking Swedish, Russian, German, French and English. He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. He was always searching for a meaning to life. He spent much time and money working on how to end the wars, and keep the peace between nations, until his death in Italy in 1896. His famous last will, in which he left money to provide prizes for outstanding work in physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine, literature and peace, is a memorial to his interests and ideas. And so, the man is remembered and respected long after his death.
【小題1】Alfred Nobel, ,the great Swedish inventor, was born in Stockholm on ____________ 21,1833.
【小題2】During the Crimean War, Immanuel Nobel invented _____________.
【小題3】Nobel had never been to ____________ or university.
【小題4】Nobel built up over ______________ companies in 20 different countries.
【小題5】 When Nobel was died, he was ____________ years old.

Answer 1

【小題1】October
【小題2】landmine
【小題3】school
【小題4】80
【小題5】63

解析【小題1】本文的第一句為Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was born in Stockholm on October 21,1833,所以我們可知諾貝爾出生于10月，故本題空格處填October。
【小題2】本文第四行一句為Immanuel Nobel invented landmine and made a lot of money from the government during the Crimean War,所表示的含義為諾貝爾父親在克里米亞戰爭期間發明了地雷，故本句空格處填地雷的單詞landmine。
【小題3】本文第七行有一句為He had never been to school or university but had taught himself,所表示的含義為諾貝爾沒有到學校上過學，完全靠自學，故本題空格處填學校的單詞school。
【小題4】本文第九行有一句為He built up over 80 companies in 20 different countries. 所表示的含義為諾貝爾在20個不同國家建造了80個公司，故本題空格處填80.
【小題5】本文倒數第四行提到諾貝爾在1896年去世，第二行提到諾貝爾在1833年出生，所以諾貝爾所活的年齡為63。