黃金閱讀 William Smith - 英檢

黃金閱讀第28篇 William Smith

第一段

In 1769 in a little town in Oxfordshire, England, a child with the very

ordinary name of William Smith was born into the poor family of a village

blacksmith. He received rudimentary village schooling but mostly he roamed

his uncle's farm collecting the fossils that were so abundant in the rocks of

the Costwold hills. When he grew older William Smith taught himself surveying

from books he bought with his small savings and at the age of eighteen he was

apprenticed to a surveyor of the local parish. He then proceeded to teach

himself geology and when he was twenty-four, he went to work for the company

that was excavating the Somerset Coal Canal in the south of England.



#2 According to paragraph 1 which of the following statements about William

Smith is NOT true?

A) Smith learned surveying by reading and by apprenticing for a local surveyor.

B) Smith's family lived in a small English town and possessed little wealth.

C) Smith learned about fossils from books he borrowed from his uncle.

D) Smith eventually left his village to work on the excavation of an English

canal.


正確答案是C，但是為什麼B不行>"<?? 他不是生在很窮的家庭嗎??



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