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     Thomas Edison lost the first job. For the next five years he went around the country from job to job.
At last Edison went to New York. He had little money. He could not buy enough food to eat. He had no
place to sleep.
     For many days Edison looked for work. He was hungry. At last he found work fixing machines. He
could fix the old machines. He also made new ones. The head man liked Edison's new machines. He was
going to give Edison $40, 000 for them. 3. Edison would now have money to do what he wanted.
      Thomas Edison was then 23, He used the money to build a shop in New Jersey. He had many people
working for him. But he worked more than 40 new things at one time.
     In 1876 Alexander. Graham Bell made a telephone. But it could carry voices only a little way. Edison
wanted to make a better telephone. He soon made one. 4. It could carry voices a long way.
(一) 根据短文内容简要回答问题。
1. What did Thomas Edison do after he lost his first job?
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2. Where did Edison begin to have good luck after he found work?
     ________________________________________________________.
(二) 将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
3. __________________________________________________________.
4. __________________________________________________________.
(三) 请给短文拟一个适当的标题。
5. __________________________________________________________.

Answer 1

1. He went around the country from job to job for the next five years.
2. In New Jersey
3. 爱迪生现在有钱能做他想做的事情了。
4. 它能把声音传很远。
5. A Great Inventor
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