SPECIAL EDUCATIONA. PRONUNCIATIONI. CHOOSE THE WORD WHOSE UNDERLINED P...

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C. READING

Read the passage and choose the best answer for each blank.

LOUIS BRAILLE (1809-1852)

Louis Braille was the son of a French leather worker. He (31) …... blind at the

age of three when he fell on a tool in his father’s workshop. But Louis was a

(32) ...… and talented boy. He wanted to be a musician, so he learned to play the

cello, at the age of ten he won a scholarship to the National Institute for Blind in

Paris. He could play the cello, but he couldn’t read or write.

In 1819, a French soldier, Charles Barbie, (33) …… “night writing”. He used

patterns of twelve raised dots on paper so that soldiers could read in the dark. Louis

Braille understood the importance of this invention for blind people and (34) ……

he was fifteen, he began to develop it. He made it simpler, with six dots, not

twelve. In 1829 he introduced it at the Institute.

By 1932 “Braille” was in use all over the world in many languages, but

unfortunately Louis died of tuberculosis in 1852 and never (35) ……. of the

importance of his invention.