39. The best title of the passage might
be
.
A. Pablo
Picasso: the great artist
B. The Boyhood
of Pablo Picasso
C. Father of A
Great Artist
D. Father’s Influence (影响) on His Son
B
Benjamin Franklin was truly what we call a “jack
of all trades”. Although best known for his experiments
with electricity, Franklin was a scientist, a politician, and almost everything
in between.
Franklin was born in Boston in 1706, the tenth and youngest of his
father’s sons. When he was 12, Franklin worked as an
apprentice. He worked in his older brother James’
printing shop. He secretly started publishing his writing under the false name
of Silence Dogood. James wasn’t pleased when he found
out the writer was Ben. Ben stopped his job and set out for Philadelphia.
In 1732, Franklin began publishing Poor Richard’s Almanack, where most of his sayings can be found. Many of these ,
such as “A penny saved is a penny earned”, remain popular today.
Franklin is known as a Founding Father. This means that he was part
of the group of men who founded their nation. He was a member of the
Continental Congress and also the oldest person to sign both the Declaration of
Independence and the Constitution.
Electricity and weather were especially interesting to Franklin. He
proved that lightning is electricity by catching sparks from a cloud while
flying a kite in a storm.
As Ben says, “If you would not be forgotten
when you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading or do things
worth writing about. ”
His theory seems to work, because Ben followed both pieces of his
own advice, and we still remember him centuries later!