2020年高考英语外刊时事做阅读理解：戴森产品的失败和成功历程JamesDysononUsi

1、2020年高考英语外刊时事做阅读理解：戴森产品的失败和成功历程James Dyson on UsingFailure to Drive Success （含答案） / 32020年高考英语外刊时事做阅读理解：戴森产品的失败和成功历程Failure to Drive Success （含答案）James Dyson on Using / 3James Dyson on Using Failure to Drive Success戴森产品的失败与成功历程My father died when I was nine, and I remember doing the household chores

2、 to help my mother. I hated changing the vacuum cleaner （真空吸尘器）bag and picking up things the machine did not suck up.Twenty years later, in 1978, I was doing chores at home alongside my wife. One day the vacuum cleaner was screaming away, and I had to empty the bag because I could not find a replace

3、ment for it. With this lifelong hatred of the way the machine worked, I decided to make a bagless vacuum cleaner.Easier said than done, of course. I didn t realize that I would spend the next five yearsperfecting my design, a process that resulted in 5,127 different prototypes （设计原型）.By the time I m

4、ade my 15th prototype, my third child was born. By 2,627, my wife and I were really counting our pennies. By 3,727, my wife was giving art lessons for some extra cash, and we were getting further and further into debt. These were tough times, but each failure brought me closer to solving the problem

5、.I just had a passion for the vacuum cleaner as a product, but I never thought of going into a business with it. In the early 1980s, I started trying to get licensing agreements （ 许可协议） for my technology. The reality was very different, however. The major vacuum makers had built a business model bas

6、ed on the profits from bags and filters （滤网）.No one would license my idea, not because it was a bad one, but because it was bad for business.That gave me the courage to keep going, but soon after, the companies that I had talked with started making machines like mine. I had to fight legal battles on

7、 both sides of the Atlantic to protect the patents on my vacuum cleaner. However, I was still in financial difficulties until 1993, when my bank manager personally persuaded Lloyds Bank to lend me $1 million. Then I was able to go into production. Within two years, the Dyson vacuum cleaner became a

8、bestseller in Britain.Today, I still embrace risk and the potential for failure as part of the process. Nothing beats the excitement of invention. Go out and brainstorm your ideas. You are not bound to any rules in fact, the stranger and riskier your idea, the better.（节选自 Fortune）1. According to the

9、 article, which of the following statements about James Dyson is NOT true?He lost his father during his childhood and lived with his mother.He decided to develop an innovative vacuum cleaner for his wife while in his thirties.He built over five thousand prototypes of the vacuum cleaner between 1978

10、and 1983.2. According to the article, DysonThe vacuum cleaner he reinvented became popular with British customers as soon as it arrived on the market.s bagless vacuampcoduneed in large numbersin the early 1980sbefore he obtained a patent on the productafter his bank manager agreed to lend him $1 mil

11、lionafter he managed to get a $1 million loanIt can be inferred from the article that.Dyson was a born businessmanDyson s invention might have ended up in failure without his wifeDyson had no confidence in his vacuum cleaner initiallyDyson s vacuum cleaner was never recognized by other vacuum makers

12、s motAccording to the article, which of the following would most likely be DysonWe are all failures at least the best of us are.The foundation stones for a success are honesty, faith, love and loyalty.It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves.The brave man is not he who

13、does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.词汇：suck v. to pull sth. with great power and force into or out of a particular place （以强大的力量） 抽，吸scream* v. to make a very loud high noise 发出尖锐的响声hatred n. an angry feeling of extreme dislike for sb. or sth. 憎恨，憎恶legal adj. concerned with or relati

14、ng to the law 法律的，与法律有关的一 (opp.) illegal adj.非法的patent n. the official legal right to make or sell an invention for a particular number of years利权embrace v. to eagerly accept a new idea, opinion, religion, etc.欣然接受， 乐意采纳 (新思想、意见、宗教等）bind (bound-bound) v. if you are bound to sth., you are forced to do what you have agreed or promised to d