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6. The experiment to be carried out is at great important.
a) проводить b) для того, чтобы проводить
с) которую будут проводить
7. To extend the main street they had to destroy some old buildings.
a) разрушить b) для того, чтобы разрушить
с) разрушение
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EDISON
Edison is known as one of the greatest inventors of his time. He
invented so much that it is difficult to say which of his achievements is the
greatest. He was an experimenter and a practical man more than a
theoretician.
Edison did not have any education. He went to school for only three
months. Then he left because the teacher considered him a dull boy. His
mother became his teacher. The boy loved books and his mother said that he
had a wonderful memory. When he first visited a public library and saw a lot
of shelves with books he decided that he would read all of them and then he
would know everything in the world. He measured the shelf and decided to
read a toot of books every week.
In 1868 Edison built his first patented invention - an electromagnetic
device.
It is said that he planned to ask three thousand dollars for his invention,
though he secretly decided he would sell it for two thousand if necessary He
was invited to a meeting of businessmen who were interested in buying his
invention, but when he was asked to name a price he was very nervous and
quite unable to speak.
"It is no use asking us a big price," said one of the businessmen,
“we’ve already decided how much we will pay. Forty thousand dollars is our
limit".
With this money Edison established a workshop and began his career
as a professional inventor at the age of twenty-two.
All his inventions were the result of hard work. He sometimes con-
ducted thousands of experiments. According to him, the idea that a genius
works only by inspiration was absurd. "Genius is 2 per cent inspiration and
98 per cent perspiration," he often said.
1) Найдите в тексте ответы на следующие вопросы:
1. Is Edison known as one of the greatest politician of his time?
2. Edison didn’t have any education, did he?

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