Reading Test: Thomas Edison

Додано: 21 грудня 2022
Предмет: Англійська мова, 11 клас
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Запитання 1

Thomas Alva Edison

The American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, was born in Ohio in 1847.


Tom, or Al, as his family called him, was one of those children who are always asking "Why?" He was always trying to learn how things worked or how they were made. The

boy's education was limited to three months in the public school of Port Huron, Michigan. He started work at the age of twelve, when a new railway was opened between Port Huron and Detroit. Young Edison began to travel every day on one of the trains. He sold fruit, sweets and cakes to the passengers. The hours that he had to wait at Detroit before starting back home, he spent in the library reading techni­cal books.

Several years later, Edison learned telegraphy and he became a tele­graph operator. He was soon one of the fastest operators in a large tele­graph company in Boston. He wanted to improve the telegraph system and worked very hard at it. Night after night he read the "Book of Experi­ments", by Michael Faraday, the inventor of the electric generator, in the hope that this would help him to solve his problems. He did not sleep more than four hours a night and sometimes he did not go to bed at all. He often did not even find time for breakfast.

"Aren't you going to stop to eat your breakfast?" his landlady once asked him. "No," he answered, "I've got so much to do, and life is short." After a few months of work, he built a transmitter of a new kind. This was his first important invention.

Edison was advised to go to New York where the opportunities were greater. He did so, but when he reached New York, he had no money left at all. "I had to walk in the streets all night because I hadn't the price of a bed; and in the morning nothing to buy breakfast with," he said.

But soon, he opened a small workshop. At the age of twenty he had two inventions.

One of Edison's greatest inventions was the gramophone, or the "pho­nograph", as he called it, which repeated his words. He told his assistants that this was only the beginning. The time would come, he said, when his new instrument would record music. "It will play symphonies and whole operas, the world will hear again the great singers who are no longer living..." Another of Edison's inventions was the electric lamp. Edison believed that only work could bring success. He continued ac­tive work until only eighteen days before his death in 1931, at the age of eighty-seven.

That evening, Americans all over the country turned off their electric lights for a few moments — the light which Edison had given them. 


Mark the true (T) and false (F) statements.

1. Thomas was always interested in different things. 

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Запитання 2

Edison studied for some years in the public school. 

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false

Запитання 3

Edison's first work was at the port.

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true

false

Запитання 4

Thomas liked to read fantastic books.

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false

Запитання 5

He worked in a large telegraph company and wanted to invent the electric generator.

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true

false

Запитання 6

Edison studied Michael Faraday's ideas at night.

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true

false

Запитання 7

Edison's first important invention was a transmitter.


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true

false

Запитання 8

Edison left Boston because he was offered a well-paid job in New York.


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true

false

Запитання 9

Very often Edison walked at night because he had a lot of new ideas and couldn't sleep.


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true

false

Запитання 10

Edison had two inventions when he was twenty.


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true

false

Запитання 11

Edison lived a long life in spite of his hard work and sleepless nights.

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true

false

Запитання 12

Americans marked the day of his death by turning off the electric lights for a few moments.

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true

false

Запитання 13

Thomas Alva Edison


The American inventor, Thomas Alva Edison, was born in Ohio in 1847.




Tom, or Al, as his family called him, was one of those children who are always asking "Why?" He was always trying to learn how things worked or how they were made. The


boy's education was limited to three months in the public school of Port Huron, Michigan. He started work at the age of twelve, when a new railway was opened between Port Huron and Detroit. Young Edison began to travel every day on one of the trains. He sold fruit, sweets and cakes to the passengers. The hours that he had to wait at Detroit before starting back home, he spent in the library reading techni­cal books.


Several years later, Edison learned telegraphy and he became a tele­graph operator. He was soon one of the fastest operators in a large tele­graph company in Boston. He wanted to improve the telegraph system and worked very hard at it. Night after night he read the "Book of Experi­ments", by Michael Faraday, the inventor of the electric generator, in the hope that this would help him to solve his problems. He did not sleep more than four hours a night and sometimes he did not go to bed at all. He often did not even find time for breakfast.


"Aren't you going to stop to eat your breakfast?" his landlady once asked him. "No," he answered, "I've got so much to do, and life is short." After a few months of work, he built a transmitter of a new kind. This was his first important invention.


Edison was advised to go to New York where the opportunities were greater. He did so, but when he reached New York, he had no money left at all. "I had to walk in the streets all night because I hadn't the price of a bed; and in the morning nothing to buy breakfast with," he said.


But soon, he opened a small workshop. At the age of twenty he had two inventions.


One of Edison's greatest inventions was the gramophone, or the "pho­nograph", as he called it, which repeated his words. He told his assistants that this was only the beginning. The time would come, he said, when his new instrument would record music. "It will play symphonies and whole operas, the world will hear again the great singers who are no longer living..." Another of Edison's inventions was the electric lamp. Edison believed that only work could bring success. He continued ac­tive work until only eighteen days before his death in 1931, at the age of eighty-seven.


That evening, Americans all over the country turned off their electric lights for a few moments — the light which Edison had given them.





Choose the best item

Thomas Alva Edison was a famous ...

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biologist

chemist

inventor.

Запитання 14

In his childhood he always ...


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cried

read books

asked questions

Запитання 15

He began to work at the age of...

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eighteen

twenty

twelve

Запитання 16

The boy's first work was ...

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at the railway

at the library

at the market

Запитання 17

He enjoyed reading .. .books.


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fiction

technical

historic

Запитання 18

Edison learned the telegraphy and became ...

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a student at the university

an operator at the telegraph company

a director of the company

Запитання 19

He worked very hard because ...

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he wanted to earn much money

he wanted to do the inventions

he wanted to make the telegraph system better

Запитання 20

Michael Faraday was the inventor of...

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electric transmitter

telegraph system

electric generator

Запитання 21

Edison slept... at night.



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more than four hours

less than four hours

long hours

Запитання 22

His first important invention was ...

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a transmitter

an electric lamp

a phonograph

Запитання 23

On the day when Edison died people in America turned off the lights because ...

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electricity was very expensive then

they wanted to honour the memory of the inventor of the electric lamp

they went to bed at that time

Запитання 24

Edison believed that only ... could bring success.

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long studies

hard work

good luck

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