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   Thomas Edison was born on February 11, 1847. When he was a child, he always had a lot of questions and started asking questions about ____  (如何)things worked. So his teachers didn’t like him. They thought he was kind of____ (笨的) and many people didn’t understand him, either. He was only in school for three months. His mother ____ (教)him at home. His parents ____ (注意) he loved to read. They introduced him to the ____ (图书馆). He read many books there. The books____ (使…感兴趣) him very much. ____  （在）the help of his parents, he also built his lab by____ (他自己). He ____ (发明) more than one thousand things,  ____ (包括) the first silent film, the light bulb, the record player and so on. He died on October 18,1931 at the age of 84.