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Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. When he was a child, he always had a lot of questions and started asking questions about _____1________ (如何)things worked. So his teachers didn’t like him. They thought he was kind of ____2________(笨的) and many people didn’t understand him, either. He was only in school for three months. His mother _____3_____(教)him at home. His parents _____4_____(注意) he loved to read. They introduced him to the ____5______(图书馆). He read many books there. The books _____6______(使…感兴趣) him very much. ________7_____ （在）the help of his parents, he also built his lab by _______8______(他自己). He ______9_____ (发明) more than one thousand things,  ______10______(包括) the first silent film, the light bulb, the record player and so on. He died on October 18,1931 at the age of 84.

Edison often said, “1 will discover what the world needs, then I will try to invent it.”  It is true that he did more than any other man of his time in inventing things. He made more than one thousand inventions in his life and all these have changed our way of living. Edison was one of the greatest inventors in the world. When Edison died in 1931, someone said people should turn off all the lights in their homes, streets and factories for several minutes in honor of this great man. Of course it was impossible to do so. And this shows what Edison's inventions mean to people's life.

1.All the things Edison invented were _________ people needed at that time.

2.Edison _________in inventing new things.

3.Edison had _________ inventions in all his life.

4.Edison was dead for nearly _______ years.

5.It was __________ to turn off all the lights in honor of the greatest inventor.

Edison was imaginative enough new ideas .

A．to come up with B．come up with

C．comes up withD．coming up with

Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work, ” he answered back, “discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
【小题1】Edison was______________.