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Most people usually traveled by ship and train which are driven by steam engine. It played an important part in many kinds of vehicles several scores of years ago. Who invented steam engine and what units could be used to measure the power of engine?
The word “horse-power” was first used two hundred years ago. James Watt from a worker‟s family made the world first widely used steam engine. At first, he couldn‟t tell people how powerful it was, because there were no units at that time. Watt decided to find out how much work one strong horse could do in one minute. He named that unit one horse-power. In this way he could measure the work of his steam engine.
He discovered that a horse could lift a 3300-pound weight 10 feet into the air in one minute. His engine could lift a 3300-pound weight 100 feet in one minute. Because his engine did ten times as much work as the horse, Watt called it a ten horse-power engine.
31. The main idea of the passage is __B_.
A. James Watt invented the steam engine
B. James Watt first used horse-power as a unit of measure
C. how much power does a horse have
D. why Watt‟s engine is called a ten horse-power engine
32. The story says that Watt made the first __D__.
A. engine B. horse-power engine C. useful engine D. widely used steam engine
33. James Watt was born in _A___.
A. a worker‟s family B. a farmer‟s family C. a teacher‟s family D. a doctor‟s
steam engine
34. Watt wanted to find a way to _D___.
A. measure the work his engine could do B. tell people how powerful his engine was C. lift a 3300-pound weight D. both A and B
35. One horse-power means the __A__.
A. work a horse could do in a minute B. weight a horse could do in ten minutes C. work a horse could do in ten minutes D. weight of one horse
參考譯文：大多數人通常乘輪船和火車，這是由蒸汽機驅動的。幾年前，它在許多車輛中起著重要的作用。是誰發明了蒸汽機，用什麼單位來測量發動機的功率?
“馬權”這個詞是二百年前第一次使用的`。詹姆斯·瓦特從一個工人的家庭‟了世界上第一個廣泛使用的蒸汽機。起初，他也‟T告訴人們它是多麼的強大，因為當時是沒有單位。瓦特決定在一分鐘內找出一匹強壯的馬能做多少工作。他將該單位命名為馬的力量。這樣他可以測量蒸汽機的工作。
他發現一匹馬可以在一分鐘內把一個3300磅重的10英尺高的空中舉起。他的引擎可以在一分鐘內舉起一個3300磅重的100英尺。因為他的發動機的工作是馬的十倍，瓦特稱之為一一零馬力發動機。
