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Charles Franklin Kettering
Ever since Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity in 1780, inventors have been trying to
find ways to use it. Most of their ideas focused on ways to make everyday chores easier or
safer. Think of the many ways our lives have changed because of electricity. The electric
lightbulb is a good example. Electric light is safe, convenient, and as easy to use as flipping a
switch. The many simple devices that we use every day without thinking all began with a
curious mind and a good idea.
Which BEST expresses the auth
A doubtful
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Charles Franklin Kettering had just that sort of curious mind. He was bom on a small farm
in Ohio in 1876. His childhood was spent working on the family farm and attending school
He was always very curious about everything around him. It did not take him long to leam
just about everything there was to know about the tools and machines on the farm
B. pitying
cproud
D. respectful
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His family did not have much money, so if Charles wanted anything special, he had to
earn it for himself. When Charles' chores on the Kettering farm were done, he had permission
to seek odd jobs on other farms. One of his first jobs was cutting a neighbor's wheat, for
which he was paid $14.00. He used the money to purchase a telephone, a new invention the
Ketterings did not yet have. Charles took it apart, studied all the inside works, and put it back
together again perfectly. This was the first of many electrical and mechanical experiments he
would perform in his lifelong search for new ideas.
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Based on the passage, with whi
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Which sentence in this excerpt from leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich shows the human tendency to contemplate one’s past life? "but if that is so," he said to himself, "and i am leaving this life with the consciousness that i have lost all that was given me and it is impossible to rectify it—what then? " he lay on his back and began to pass his life in review in quite a new way. in the morning when he saw first his footman, then his wife, then his daughter, and then the doctor, their every word and movement confirmed to him the awful truth that had been revealed to him during the night. in them he saw himself—all that for which he had lived—and saw clearly that it was not real at all, but a terrible and huge deception which had hidden both life and death. this consciousness intensified his physical suffering tenfold. he groaned and tossed about, and pulled at his clothing which choked and stifled him. and he hated them on that account. he was given a large dose of opium and became unconscious, but at noon his sufferings began again. he drove everybody away and tossed from side to side. his wife came to him and said: "jean, my dear, do this for me. it can't do any harm and often . healthy people often do it." he opened his eyes wide. "what? take communion? why? it's unnecessary! " she began to cry. "yes, do, my dear. i'll send for our priest. he is such a nice man." "all right. very well," he muttered. when the priest came and heard his confession, ivan ilyich was softened and seemed to feel a relief from his doubts and consequently from his sufferings, and for a moment there came a ray of hope. he again began to think of the vermiform appendix and the possibility of correcting it. he received the sacrament with tears in his eyes.