Believe
In
Yourself
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鍏勾
绾?/p>
Unit 1
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棰橀槄璇?/p>
鍒濅簩澶囪缁?/p>
I
璇硶濉┖
American Thomas Edison (1847-1931) was one of the greatest 1.__________
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inventor
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in the world. He made 1,093
2.__________ (invention) in his life. The
most famous one was the light bulb!
Thomas Edison spent a long time 3.________ (make) the light bulb. He tried over
1,600 different kinds of material1 to get the right filament (
鐏笣
) for the light bulb. He
used things like the hair from a man
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s beard (
鑳￠』
) ! Some people 4. ____(think)
he could not make it.
5.__________,
finally he did.
Edison went to school for only three months. His teacher told him that he was so
stupid that he couldn
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t learn 6. _________ (something). But he kept 7. ______(study)
on his own. He taught himself everything he needed 8. ________(know).
When Edison worked on 9. _____ new kind of battery (
鐢垫睜
), he tried out 8,000 ways
to make it. Then he said:
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Well, at least we found 8,000 things that don
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t work!
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This is the longest lasting light bulb 10. _______
the world. The light burns for 108
years in California (
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), US. The light is still working today.
II
瀹屽舰濉┖
Can you imagine trying to write music if you were deaf? Most of us couldn
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t dream of it.
But for the great composer Ludwig van Beethoven, this was no 11._______ at all.