AT FIRST MEN DID SURFINGA. BECAUSE IT WAS AN INTERESTING SPORTB....

286) At first men did surfingA. because it was an interesting sportB. because it was a quick way to come back to land after catching fishC. because the fishermen wanted to keep fit.D. because there wasn't any board at that time.THE INFLUENCE OF ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELLAlexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and became a very famous man. He alsowrote an article which he presented in 1883. His research paper was about deaf people.In his article, Dr. Bell explained why there were so many deaf children. He believed thatwhen deaf adults married each other, they would have (41)_______ children. He thought thatthis was bad. Bell blamed the schools for the deaf for causing marriages between deaf people.He did not like the idea of these intermarriages and tried to think of ways to (42)_______them. He would have preferred that deaf children be taught at hearing schools. He did not(43)_______ schools or the deaf. Bell felt that deaf people would not mix with hearing peopleif they went to (44)_______ schools.Bell was (45)_______ about other things, too. He noticed that deaf people socializedwith other deaf people. He felt that socializing with other deaf people was bad. Deaf peopleshould socialize with hearing people, he thought. bell tried to start a new lar that would makeit illegal for deaf people to marry each other. He (46)_______ up his idea when he realizedthat such a law could not be enforced.Bell also had strong feelings about the (47)_______ of deaf children. He wanted deafchildren to be with hearing children in school. He thought that the deaf children could learnnormal behavior from the hearing children. Bell was against the use of deaf teachers, too,because he thought this added to the (48)_______ of a deaf "race" in America.Bell had another theory which he never proved. He believed that deaf children whosigned would not have good English (49)_______. He could never prove this, and now manypeople have tried to prove the opposite! A lot of new research shows that many deaf childrenwhose parents sign (and are deaf) do (50)_______ schoolwork than deaf children who do notsign at home!