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Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He attended school for only three months. His mother taught him at home, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. He started experimenting at a young age. When he was 12 years old, he got his first job. He became a newsboy on a train. He did experiments on the train in his spare time. Unluckily, his first work experience did not end well. They fired him when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the train. Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to spend much of his time in experimenting. His first patent (专利) in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity.
Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but he thought of his deafness as a blessing (祝福) in many ways. It kept conversations short, so that he could have more time for work. He always worked 16 out of every 24 hours. Sometimes his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat.
Thomas Edison died at the age of 84. He left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of life all over the world.
() 1. How often did Edison make a new invention?
A. About every seven days.
B. About every fourteen days.
C. About once a week.
D. About twice a week.
() 2. What does the underlined word "fired" mean in this passage?
A. Gave somebody a job.
B. Set fire to somebody.
C. Let somebody down.
D. Asked somebody to leave his job.
() 3. How was Edison after he became deaf?
A. He kept positive.
B. He was worried.
C. He felt sorry.
D. He was sad.
() 4. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. The history of the electric light.
B. Edison and his experiments.
C. The importance of inventions.
D. The whole life of Edison.
() 5. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Edison was lazy when he was young.
B. Edison was poor so he needed to work on a train.
C. Edison was very hard-working.
D. Edison had little difficulty in experimenting.

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Leonardo Da Vinci was 1. Italian painter, inventor, musician, engineer and scientist. He was born in the countryside. From an early age, he showed great intelligence and artistic ability. As he grew older, he learnt 2. (do) many different things. He was good at 3. (work) out problems. He learnt from his uncle Francesco that one should ask questions and look 4. answers. He painted lots of famous 5. (paint). The Mona Lisa is one of 6. (famous) paintings in the world. He also had many 7. (invent).
Da Vinci was so great because of his curiosity. He never lost his wish to learn new things and loved 8. (study) things. He would have more questions and 9. (great) interest when he studied something. He was so interested in learning that he read and studied every book he could find. He wrote down thousands of notes 10. he read. How hard-working he was!