[单项选择]From the amount of sleep Napoleon, Edison, and Darwin required, we can concluded ______.
A. that they were famous
B. that they were executives
C. that they were intelligent
D. None of the above

[单项选择]From the amount of sleep Napoleon, Edison, and Darwin required, we can conclude ______.
A. that they were famous
B. that they were executives
C. that they were intelligent
D. None of the above

[单项选择]Compare with dreamless sleep, deep dream sleep is _______.


A. not the result of natural selection
B. less likely to appear to moneys
C. more protective to the animals
D. at a higher stage of evolution

[单项选择]Edison considered his deafness（）
A. a disadvantage
B. a blessing
C. something from a priest
D. a necessity

[单项选择]Sleep is described as


A. a gradual parting from the real world.
B. undisturbed by tension or problems.
C. drowning in an ocean of darkness.
D. dependent only upon individual age and health.

[单项选择]Edison tested more than one thousand materials to see if they could ______ electric current and glow.


A. bring
B. make
C. carry
D. produce

[单项选择]The great American scientist Edison had a remarkable ______ for inventing new things.
A. requirement
B. aptitude
C. obligation
D. vulnerability

[单项选择]Thomas Edison's office was always disorganized with books and papers.
A. discarded
B. scattered
C. sorted
D. decorated

[单项选择]When Edison died, it was proposed that the American people ______ all power for several minutes in honour of this great man.
A. turned off
B. turn off
C. would turn off
D. must turn off

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Thomas Alva Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light. Without him, the world might still be a dark place. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented the phonograph(留声机), the motion picture camera, and over 1,200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new.
Thomas A. Edison was born in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. His family moved to Port Huron, Michigan, when he was seven years old. Surprisingly, he attended school for only two months. His mother, a former teacher, taught him a few things, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. His natural curiosity(好奇) led him to start experimenting at a young age with electrical and mechanical things at home.
When he was 12 years old, he got his first job. He became a newsboy on a train that ran between Port Huron and Detroit. He set up a laboratory in a baggage car of the train so that he could continue his experiments in his spare time. Unfortun
A. Thomas Edison was always interested in science and inventions, and he invented many important things
B. Thomas Edison could not keep a job
C. Thomas Edison worked day and night on his experiments
D. deaf people make good inventors because they can focus without the distraction of spoken conversation