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People often said Thomas Edison was the greatest genius of his age. There are only a few men in all
of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light.
But Edison could never be pleased only because someone said he was a genius. "There is no such thing as
genius," Edison said. He thought what people called genius was mostly hard work.
But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the
secrets of nature. He tried to understand them, and then he tried to learn what he could usefully do with them.
Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people would do almost anything instead of the difficult work
of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking could give men
enjoyment and pleasure.
Edison could not understand how anyone could not be interested in life. As he loved to think, he also
loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what idea he had about life. "Work,"
he answered, "Discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier." He said he had enough
inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.
1. According to Thomas Edison, what's genius?
A. Hard thinking.
B. Hard work.
C. Useful dreams.
D. Useful inventions.
2. After exploring the secrets of nature, Edison always tried to _______.
A. write down what he had learnt
B. carry out a new experiment
C. make them useful in life
D. share them with others
3. Edison could not understand _______.
A. how anybody enjoyed life
B. how anybody loved working
C. why anybody loved thinking
D. why anybody was tired of life
4. The last sentence in the passage means that _______.
A. Edison was born to be a great inventor
B. Edison was able to live another 100 years
C. Edison was ready to make his 100 th invention
D. life was too short for Edison to work for human beings
