Reading and Writing fill in the blanks practice exercise. Below is text with blanks. Choose the correct word for each blank to complete the text.
Thomas Alva Edison was (1………….) a scientist and an inventor. Born in 1847, Edison would see (2……………) change take place in his lifetime. He was also to be responsible for making many of those changes occur.
When Edison was born, society still (3…………….) of electricity as a (4…………….), a fad. By the time he died, entire cities were lit by electricity. Much of the (5……………..) for that progress goes to Edison. In his lifetime, Edison (6……………..) 1,093 inventions, earning him the nickname “The Wizard of Menlo Park.” The most famous of his inventions was the incandescent light bulb. Besides the light bulb, Edison (7………………) the phonograph and the “kinetoscope,” a small box for viewing moving films.
Thomas Edison is also the first person in the US to make his own filmstrips. He also (8………………) upon the original design of the stock ticker, the telegraph, and Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone. He believed in hard work, sometimes working twenty hours a day. Edison was quoted as saying, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” In (9…………….) to this important American, electric lights in the United States were (10…………….) for one minute on October 21, 1931, a few days after his death.
1. both, neither, never, almost
2. peculiar, tremendous, particular, brilliant
3. thought, made, regard, consider
4. new, miracle, tradition, novelty
5. credit, achievement, contribution, establishment
6. copyright, patented, processed, made
7. owned, started, produced, developed
8. improved, increased, created, invented
9. tribute, order, regard, addition
10. dimmed, lit, on, switched
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