AFTER HE ARRIVED, ALL HIS CLASSMATES HAD LEFT. A B C D C. READING R...

4. After he arrived, all his classmates had left.

A B C D

C. READING

Read the passage and answer the following questions. (2.0ms)

Thomas Edison was born on February 11

th

, 1847 in Milan, Ohio. When he was at school, his teacher

considered him to be a slow student. But with only three months of formal education he became one of the

greatest inventors and industrial leaders in history.

Edison’s most famous invention was the electric light bulb. He also invented the phonograph, and made

improvements to the telegraph, telephone and motion pictrure technology.

Edison had a special life. He married twice with five children. He loved books, had excellent memory,

and always showed curiousity about science.

Although he had hearing problem, he refused to have an operation for his deafness. He said that silence

helped him concentrate. He always worked very hard and often had only four hours of sleep everyday. He

used to say, “ Genius was 1 percent inspiration and 99 percents perspiration.” When he died on October 18,