2022-2023英语周报九年级第30期答案汇总
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When he was 12 years old,he got his first job.
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When he was 12 years old,he got his first job.He became a newsboy on a train.He did experiments on the train in his spare 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 spend much of his time in experimenting his first patent in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity.
Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other,but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways.It kept conversations short,so that he could have more time for work.He always worked 16 out of every 24 hours.Sometimes his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat.
Thomas Edison died at the age of 84.He left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of life all over the world.