Edison is a well-known American inventor. 完形填空悬赏高分,急!Edison is a well-known American inventor. He was taught by his mother when he was a child. Later he learned things (1) _ himself by reading and experimenting. He built a lab for himself to work in, and he worked very hard in his sixty years of scientific activities. He made over a thousand inventions. (2) _ inventors in the world could have such great success. Edison’s first invention was

Edison is a well-known American inventor. 完形填空悬赏高分,急!
Edison is a well-known American inventor. He was taught by his mother when he was a child. Later he learned things (1) _ himself by reading and experimenting. He built
a lab for himself to work in, and he worked very hard in his sixty years of scientific activities. He made over a thousand inventions. (2) _ inventors in the world could
have such great success.
Edison’s first invention was (3) _ in 1868. He was (4) _ a telegraph operator. He wished to work (5) _ a new method to (6) _ the old telegraph system because it
was impossible at that time for the system to send more than one message along the same line at the same time. He (7) _ all the works of Farady, another great scientist,
before starting his invention. Sometimes he didn’t go to bed and even didn’t stop to eat. He thought he had very much to do and there was no time to (8) _ . Days and
nights he was reading and reading. After he had read through Farady’s writings, he began his experiments. A few months (9) _ he succeeded in (10) _ a double transmitter
and improved the old telegraph system
1. A) with B) by
C) in D) on

2. A) Few B) A few
C) A little D) Little

3. A) invented B) found
C) made D) discovered

4. A) then B) working
C) as D) helping

5. A) at B) on
C) out D) up

6. A) change B) improve
C) build D) use

7. A) readed B) reading
C) reads D) read

8. A) lose B) work
C) think D) finish

9. A) after B) before
C) later D) since