题目内容：

John Dalton was born in England in 1766. As a small child, John worked in the fields with his older brother, and helped his father in the cloth-making shop. Most poor boys at that time received no education, but John was lucky to attend a nearby school. John was a good student and loved learning. His teachers encouraged him to study many things.

When he was twelve, he opened his first school in a nearby town, but there was very little money. He had to close his school and work in his uncle’s field.

Three years later, he ran a school in Kendall, England with his brother and a friend. They taught many subjects. There, John studied the weather and the nature around him. He collected butterflies and snails. He did many other scientific tests.

In 1793, John moved to Manchester to teach at New College, and began observing the behavior of gases. He began to think about different elements (元素) and how they are made up of.

In 1808, Dalton published a book, A New System of Chemical Philosophy. His atomic masses were not all careful and exact, but they formed the basis for the modern periodic table (元素周期表).

John Dalton died in 1844 in England. Today, scientists everywhere accept Dalton’s idea of how the atoms were made. A simple country boy showed the world a new way of thinking about the universe and how it is made.

 

1.The following statements are true except that ________.

A. John Dalton was born into a poor family in England

B. John Dalton continued his study in a nearby town at 12

C. John Dalton worked as a teacher in Kendall at 15

D. John Dalton began to think about how things are formed at 27

2. We can learn that _______ from the fifth paragraph.

A. the book A New System of Chemical Philosophy is useless

B. John Dalton shouldn’t have made so many mistakes in his book

C. John Dalton was the first to publish the modern periodic table

D. the modern periodic table was based on John Dalton’s work

3.According to the passage, we can infer that _______.

A. John Dalton showed great interest in science when he was young

B. John Dalton worked as a school student in most of his early years

C. John Dalton was even more famous when he was 40 years old

D. if John Dalton had been in the city, he wouldn’t have been successful

4.The passage is organized in the order of _______.

A. time     B. importance   C. events    D. space