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　　Switzerland is famous for its watches. However> this country didn't invent the watch. It was the British who did it. Here is a story of how the watch was 1.______ ( bring) to Switzerland.
　　Many years ago, 2.______ Englishman traveled to Italy and 3.______ his way he stopped in a small town 4.______ (call) Geneva in Switzerland. This Englishman traveled in a carriage, inside 5.______ there was a carriage watch. This was the 6.______ (early) kind of watch in the
world. A native shop assistant happened to see the watch. He 7.______ (wonder) what it was, he asked the Englishman about it. "It is a carriage watch” answered the man.“This machine can tell the time, but now it isn’t working.^{, ,} At once the shop assistant offered to try 8.______
(repair) it. So the 9.______ (travel) handed him the watch. The man was so clever that he managed to repair the watch. He even remembered how it was made. And later he made a watch of 10.______ (exact) the same type.

　　You must have read some stories about Thomas Edison. He was a great American 1.______ (invent). When he was a 2.______ (children), he was always asking questions and trying out new ideas. No matter 3.______ hard it was, he never gave up.
　　Young Thomas was in school for only three months. His teacher didn’t understand why he had so many strange questions. Most of 4.______ (they) were not about his lessons. The teacher didn’t want to teach Thomas any 5.______ (long). He asked his mother to take the boy home. His mother taught him to read and write, and she found him 6.______ good pupil. He learnt very fast and became very interested in science.
　　One day, Thomas saw a little boy 7.______ (play) on the railway tracks at a station. A train was coming near quickly, and the boy was too 8.______ (frighten) to move. Thomas rushed out and carried the boy to 9.______ (safe). The boy’s father was so 10.______ (thank) that he taught Thomas to send messages by telegraph.