Thomas Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. （1）W

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him，the world might still be in the dark.（2）H

owever

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，the electric light was not his only invention.About every two weeks he （3）c

reated

reated

something new.
   Thomas Edison （4）w

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as

born in 1847.He attended school for only three months.His mother taught （5）h

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im

at home，but Thomas was mostly self-educated.He started experimenting at a young age.
   When he was 12 years old，he got his first （6）j

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.He became a newsboy on a train.He did experiments on the train in his （7）f

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time.Unluckily，his first work experience did not end well.They fired him when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the train.Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator，but he continued to（8）s

pend

pend

much of his time in experimenting his first patent（专利） in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity.
   Thomas Edison always worked 16 out of every 24 hours.Sometimes his wife （9）h

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to remind him to sleep and eat.Thomas Edison （10）d

ied

ied

at the age of 84.He left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of life all over the world.