55. The candle clock burned for …... .
A. twelve hours
B. one hour
C. a day
D. twelve days
II. Read the passage and decide which is the best answer. Circle the best answer
A, B, C or D to the questions (2 pts)
THE INVENTOR
Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was an expert in phonetics. (56)
…... a boy, Alexander became interested in sounds and speech in 1870, The Bells decided to (57)
…... to America. They lived in Boston, (58) …... Alexander taught in a school for the deaf.
There he began experimenting with a machine (59) …... help the deaf hear. While experimenting with this
machine, Bell had an idea, “Why do not use electricity to (60) …... the human voice from one place to
another ?” He began to work on a new (61) …... For years, Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson,
worked day (62) …... night. They rented rooms in a boarding house. Bell was on one floor, and Watson was
on (63) …... . They tried to send (64) …... through a wire. Finally, on March 19th, 1876,
Watson heard these words very clearly: “ Mr Watson, come here. I want you.”. Watson rushed upstairs, ran (65)
…... Bell’s room, and shouted, “ I heard you! ”
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