A question about Euler class in Bott&Tu's book

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In the beginning of the chapter 11 of Bott&Tu's book Differential Forms in Algebraic Topology, we want to find a global closed form of a sphere bundle $E\rightarrow M$ which restricts to a generator of the cohomology on each fiber. In their book, suppose {$U_\alpha$} is a good cover of $M$, they found a global form of $E$, which restricts to the $d$-cohomology class of $E|_{U_\alpha}$ on all $U_\alpha$, and they claimed that this global closed form restricrs to a generator of the cohomology on each fiber. I wonder why, wish someone could help.

PS: This problem is equivalent to a generator of the cohomology of a sphere bundle over a manifold which is diffeomorphic to $\mathbb R ^n$ restricts to a generator of the cohomology on each fiber.