3.after graduate school:从研究生院毕业之后
4.General Electric :通用电气公司
5.house dimmer switches:家用减光开关
练习:
1.Holonyak’s colleagues thought he would fail in his research on LEDs at the time when he started it.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
2.Holonyak believed that his students that were working with him on the project would get the Lemelson-MIT Prize sooner or later.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
3.Holonyak was the inventor of the transistor in the early 1950s.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
4.Holonyak believed that LEDs would become very popular in the future.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
5.Holonyak said that you should not do anything you are not interested in.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
6.Edith Flanigen is the only co-inventor of LEDs.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
7.The Lemelson-MIT Prize has a history of over 100 years.
A Right B Wrong C Not mentioned
答案与题解:
1.A 第一段第一句就说:“When Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was unrealistic.”
2.C 通篇文章没有提到Holonyak相信他的学生将获得Lemelson-MIT Prize这件事。
3.B 第四段说到发明晶体管的是Holonyak的老师John Bardeen,不是Holonyak本人。
4.A 第六段的句子“ ... he suspected that LEDs would become as commonplace as they are today ...”就包含了popular的意思。