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寫(xiě)作技能（三部分，共11小題，計(jì)30分）

第一節(jié) 語(yǔ)篇翻譯 閱讀下面的短文，將畫(huà)線的句子譯成英文或中文。（共5小題，計(jì)10分）

Without Thomas Edison, the world might still be in the dark. He lit up the whole world with the electric light. However, the electric light was not his only invention. He also invented 1200 other things. About every two weeks he created something new.

Thomas Edison was born in 1847. He attended school for only three months. His mother taught him at home, but Thomas was mostly self-educated. He started experimenting at a young age.他花了很多時(shí)間尋找第一份工作。When he was 12 years old, he became a newsboy on a train. He did experiments on the train in his spare time. Unluckily, his first work experience did not end well. They fired him because the train caught fire by accident. Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator, but he continued to make his experiments.

Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways. It kept conversations short, 以便于他有更多時(shí)間忙于他的發(fā)明. He always worked 16 out of every 24hours. Sometimes his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat.

Thomas Edison died at the age of He left a number of inventions that improved the quality of life.

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