08年职称英语考试阅读判断试题训练(一).docx
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08 年职称英语考试阅读判断试题训练 (一 )
1.Inventor of LED LED 的发明者
When Nick Holonyak set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was unrealistic . Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to airports .Dozens of his students have
continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology .
On April 23, 2004, Holonyak received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize at a ceremony in Washington . This marks
the 1Oth year that the Lemelson-MIT Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) has given the award to prominent inventors .
"Anytime you get an award, big or little, it's always a surprise ."Holonyak said .
Holonyak, 75, was a s