JulesVernswasbornin1828．Hewasneitheraninventornorascientistbuthereadmanybooksaboutscienceandwrotesomeexcitingstoriesaboutthings．Hethoughtscientistsandinventorswouldonedaybeabletodothethingsinhisstories．
Jules Verns was born in 1828．He was neither an inventor nor a scientist but he read many books about science and wrote some exciting stories about things．He thought scientists and inventors would one day be able to do the things in his stories．Years later，many of the things really happened．At the time，his stories seemed like fairy tales（神话）．
His famous book is"Twenty Leagues Under the Sea"（League here means three miles）．In those days submarines（潜艇） had not been invented，but he wrote about an underwater ship very much like a modern submarine．The men of the submarine in the book had many strange journeys and found many strange things．
41．Tis passage mainly tells us___．
A．how Jules verns invented a submarine
B．Jules Verns wrote many scientific books
C．Jules Verns's stories really happened later
D．what the book"Twenty Leagues Under the Sea"means
42．Jules Verns was___．
A．a writer
B．an inventor
C．a scientist
D．a traveller
43．Jules Verns thought___．
A．he could realize（实现） his stories
B．his stories were fairy tales
C．a submarine was a ship
D．what he wrote would be realized by scientists or inventors
44．His book"Twenty Leagues Under the Sea"___．
A．was about submarines
B．was very famous
C．means something under water
D．helped people do work
45．The men of the submarine in the book___．
A．had never been to some places
B．were scientists
C．were inventors
D．had been to a lot of places．