[单项选择]Unlike the Shakespearean plays that lit up the English stage, the "closet dramas" of the nineteenth century were meant to be ______ rather than ______.
A. seen...acted
B. read...staged
C. quiet...raucous
D. sophisticated...urbane
E. produced...performed

Thomas Alva Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric (29) Without him, the world might still be a (30) place. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also (31) the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and over 1,200 other things. About every two weeks he created something (32) Thomas A. Edison was (33) in Milan, Ohio, on February 11, 1847. Surprisingly, he attended school for only two months. His mother, a former teacher, (34) him a few things, but Thomas (35) mostly self-educated. His natural curiosity led him (36) start experimenting at a young (37) with electrical and mechanical things at home.
When he was 12 years old; he got his first job. He (38) a newsboy on a train that ran between Port Huron and Detroit. He set (39) a laboratory in a baggage car of the train so that he could continue his experiments in his spare (40) .<
A. lightning
B. light
C. camera