文章大意：本文是一篇记叙文。讲述了诺贝尔奖的创办人Alfred Nobel是一位著名的发明家和工业家，其一生努力工作，也是欧洲最富有的人之一，他无私的把自己攒下的积蓄和世界分享的故事。
5 . Most of us know something about the Nobel Prizes, especially the Nobel Peace Prize, but few of us know anything about the man who set them up. His name was Alfred Nobel. He was a great scientist and inventor himself. Besides, he had a big business. His business may surprise you. He made and sold explosives (炸药). His companies even made and sold weapons (武器). Isn’t this something that surprises you? The man who made money from weapons should set up the Nobel Peace Prize?
Though Alfred Nobel had a lot of money from weapons, he hated war. He hoped that there would be no war in the world. He was one of the richest in Europe. When he died in 1896, he left behind him a lot of money and his famous will (遗嘱). According to his will, most of his money was placed in a fund. He wanted the interest from the fund to be used as prizes every year. We know them as the Nobel Prizes. The Nobel Prizes are international. Alfred Nobel wanted the winners to be chosen for their work, not the country they came from.
Alfred Nobel had given his whole life to his studies and work and to the benefits of mankind. He made money all by his own efforts, but he left the world share his wealth. His inventions and wealth stay with the world forever.
1. Alfred’s business was ________.
| A．making and selling explosives |
| B．not making and selling explosives |
| C．making explosives and selling weapons |
| D．making weapons and selling explosives |
2. Nobel wanted to set up the Nobel Peace Prize because ________.
| A．he hated weapons |
| B．he made enough money |
| C．he liked to live in a peaceful world |
| D．he wanted to get more interest from the fund |
3. Nobel Prizes come from ________.
| A．all Nobel’s money in the fund | B．all Nobel’s money in his company |
| C．some of the interest in the fund | D．all the interest from the fund |
4. Nobel was a (an) ________ person in the world.
| A．interesting | B．unselfish | C．kind-hearted | D．richest |
5. What is meaning of the underlined word in first Paragraph?
