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1. Listen to the text and complete the sentences.

Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was a famous…

а) biologist б) chemist

в) inventor

2. Listen to the text and complete the sentences.

Thomas Alva Edison
He began to work at the age of...

а) eighteen б) twenty

в) twelve

3. Listen to the text and complete the sentences.

Thomas Alva Edison
He enjoyed reading ...books.

а) fiction б) technical

в) historic

4. Listen to the text and complete the sentences.

Thomas Alva Edison
He worked very hard because ...

а) he wanted to earn much money б) he wanted to do the invention

в) he wanted to make the telegraph system

better

5. Listen to the text and complete the sentences.

Thomas Alva Edison
Edison slept... at night.
 а) more than four hours б) less than four hours

в) long hours

6. Listen to the text and complete the sentences.

Thomas Alva Edison
On the day when Edison died people in America turned off the lights because ...

а) electricity was very expensive then б) they wanted to honour the memory of
the inventor of the electric lamp

в) they went to bed at that time

7. Mark the true or false statements.

Thomas Alva Edison
Edison studied for some years in the public school.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

8. Mark the true or false statements.

Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas liked to read fantastic books.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

9. Mark the true or false statements.

Thomas Alva Edison
Edison studied Michael Faraday's ideas at night.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

10. Mark the true or false statements.

Thomas Alva Edison
Edison left Boston because he was offered a well-paid job in New York.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

11. Mark the true or false statements.

Thomas Alva Edison
Edison had two inventions when he was twenty.

а) TRUE б) FALSE
12. Mark the true or false statements.
Thomas Alva Edison
Americans marked the day of his death by turning off the electric lights for a few moments.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

13. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
Eugene Paton
Eugene Paton was born in St Petersburg in 1870.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

14. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
Eugene Paton
His father was Russian Consul in Nice, France.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

15. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
Eugene Paton
Paton had graduated from Dresden Polytechnic Institute and later became a famous engineer.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

16. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
Eugene Paton
Eugene Paton graduated from St Petersburg University and then had a project of the Dresden
railway station.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

17. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
Eugene Paton
He got a degree of a railway engineer at St Petersburg University.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

18. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
Eugene Paton
Paton wasn’t a bridge-building founder.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

19. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
 Galileo Galilei made his first scientific discovery at the age of 19.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

20. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
He became Professor of Mathematics at the university when he was 60.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

21. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
As a boy Isaak Newton built a model of a telescope.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

22. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
The sails of the model could turn only when there was a wind.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

23. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
Albert Einstein was very hard-working and attentive at the lessons in school.

а) TRUE б) FALSE

24. Listen to the text and mark the true or false statements.
Einstein is a founder of 'The Theory of Relativity'.

а) TRUE б) FALSE
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