牛津英语8BUnit5单元测试卷(7)

in 1989. In his eyes, computer science was closer to everyday life than astronomy. He worked hard and became the best student in his class. He was popular with students and teachers at school.

He worked as a computer programmer in a company in Shenzhen for five years. Then he started his own company in 1988. It was difficult at the beginning and he had to work hard every day. After he invented QQ, his business got better and better. It is said that now there are at least three hundred million people using QQ. To be honest, the number of QQ users is getting larger and larger. It is a wonder, isn’t it?

80. Ma Huateng is the of QQ.

81. People now can have a good time with each other using QQ.

82. When he was very young, he was in astronomy.

83. At school, he was popular with students and teachers because of his hard .

84. Before he started his own company he wrote computer in a company in Shenzhen for five years.

(B) Most people will rest and relax when they are old. They do not work. And most people are certainly not famous. But Grandma Moses is different. She starts work at the age of 76.

This is her story. She was born in a poor farmer's family in 1860. Her parents named her Anna Mary Robertson. She married Thomas Moses in 1887. He was a farm worker.

Now it is 1930. Anna Mary Moses is 70, and is a grandmother. She begins to paint pictures. She does paintings of country life. One day, her daughter takes her paintings to a store in town. Her paintings are put in the window. A man from New York sees the paintings in the window and buys them. And he wants more!

The man likes Grandma Moses' paintings. He wants to help her. So he takes her paintings to galleries(美术馆、画廊)in New York City. Otto Kallir has a famous gallery there. He likes the paintings by Grandma Moses. Now it is 1940 and Grandma Moses' paintings are in Kallir's gallery. She is 80 years old.

Grandma Moses suddenly becomes famous. Everyone wants her paintings. So she paints more and more. She wins many prizes for her paintings. She becomes famous in the United States and Europe.

When she is 100 years old, t he State of New York makes her birthday “Grandma Moses' Day". After her 100th birthday, she paints 6 more paintings. She dies at age 101 and a lot of people think she is amazing. An 85 woman: Grandma Moses

85. ___________ 86. ___________87. ___________88. ___________89. ___________

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