WORKSHEETRead the gloen passage carefully:A BORN SCIENTIST1. Thomas Edison was born the seventh - and last-child of his family in the town of Milan, Ohio. When hewas a young boy, he showed remarkable ability that set him apart from his classmates. So after onlythree months in school, his mother, a teacher, decided to instruct him at home. Edison became avoracious reader and was particularly interested in chemistry and electricity. He constructed amake-shift laboratory in the basement of his house to conduct various experiments on his ownIn order to buy more chemicals and apparatus for his laboratory, Edison got a job selling newspapersand snacks on board the Grand Trunk Railway. He was then twelve years old. When he was offduty, he would read a number of books at the Detriot library. With the permission from the railwayauthorities, he set up a printing station in the baggage compartment and began publishing his ownnewspaper, the Weekly Herald. His business was good and soon the young entrepreneur began toemploy other children to work for him.3. To allow himself more time for his experiments, Edison relocated his basement laboratory to the baggagecompartment. Unfortunately, a fire ignited by a jar of phosphorous led to its closure by a very angrytrain conductor.4. In 1862, Edison saved a boy who was in danger of being overrun by an oncoming train. The boy's fatherwas so grateful that he offered to teach Edison telegraphy, Telegraphy was at that time an importantmeans of communication and operators were in great demand. Edison soon established himself as oneof the premier operators in the United States.5. Edison worked untiringly. At the age of twenty-three, he set up an engineering firm in New Jersey.During the next six years, he invented the mimeograph and made improvements on the telegraph andthe typewriter. His creations are varied. Some of his most notable contributions to society included thedevelopment of the incandescent light bulb, the phonograph and the movie camera.6. it was said that as Edison grew older, he became increasingly rigid and autocratic. These traitshindered the promotion of his inventions. He also lost millions of dollars on projects which weretechnologically very impressive but financially not viable.61 On the basis of your understanding of the passage answer any eight of the following questions:(a) Why did Edison's mother take him out of school?Read