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Growing up on a remote Michigan farm, Henry Ford, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, knew little of farming. Like most pioneer farmers, his father, William, hoped that his eldest son would   1   him on the farm, enable it to expand, and eventually take it   2  . But Henry proved a   3  . He hated farm work and did everything he could to   4   it. It was not that he was lazy.   5   from it! Give him a mechanical job to do, from mending a gate to sharpening tools,   6   he would set to work eagerly. It was the daily life of the farm, with its dull tasks,   7    upset him.      Henry was excited by the development in technology that could   8   farmers like his father from wasteful and   9   labor. But these developments, in Henry's boyhood, had touched farming  10  at all and farmers went on doing things in the way they had always done. So Henry  11  his attention elsewhere. When he was twelve, he became  12  in clocks and watches. Soon he was repairing them for friends, working at a bench he built in his bedroom.      In 1876, Henry suffered a serious  13 . His mother died in childbirth.  14  was no reason for him to stay on the farm, and he  15  to get away as soon as he could. Three years later, he took a job as a mechanic in Detroit.   16  this time steam engines had joined clocks and watches as objects of Henry's fascination. Making and installing them was the business of the Detroit workshop that he joined at the age of sixteen.      A chance meeting with an old co-worker   7   a job for Henry as an engineer at the Edison Detroit Electricity Company. When he quickly learned the ropes of his new job, his interest in fuel engines had come to control his life.      Henry learned  18  a slow, painstaking business it was to build an engine by hand. Every piece of every part had to be made individually, checked and rechecked, and tested.  19  the burden, he joined forces with another mechanic, Jim Bishop. Even so, it was two years  20  they succeeded in building a working car. Henry called it "Quadricycle." (四輪驅(qū)動腳踏車)

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