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     Thomas Edison was a famous American scientist. He was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked
  to find out how things worked. He was in school for only three months. He asked his teacher a lot of
  strange questions, Most of them had nothing to do with his lessons. The teacher thought the boy was
 not bright and was not worth (值) teaching. When he told this to Edison's mother, she took her son out of
  school. As she had been a teacher, she taught him herself. The boy read a lot. Soon he became very
  interested in science. At the age of ten, Edison had already built a chemistry lab (实验室) for himself.
 Ever since then, he never stopped searching (探索) for new and better ways to do things.

1. Edison was born in the _____  century ( 世纪).

    A. eighteenth    
    B. nineteenth  
    C. nineteen      
    D. eighteen      

2. While he was in school, Edison _____  .

    A. studied his lesson very hard  
    B. was often late for school
    C. liked to ask questions      
    D. was not bright and enough to study

3. Edison learned more from _____  .

    A. his mother    
    B. his teacher  
    C. other boys    
    D. his father

4. Young Edison was interested in _____  .

    A. sports    
    B. playing games  
    C. making trouble  
    D. science

5. He was always searching for new and better ways to do things after he _____  .

    A. read books                    
    B. finished school  
    C. built a lab                    
    D. was taken out of school

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