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First, read the incomplete sentences given below. Listen to two interesting anecdotes about two scientists, that your teacher will read aloud or play on the recorder. Then, based on your understanding, complete the sentences suitably.
Thomas Alva Edison stepped from a train in Orange, New Jersey and walked down the platform. The station master knew how forgetful the famous inventor was. Therefore, he would always ask him a customary question. He asked Edison if he had left anything behind. Edison confidently replied that he had not left anything and everything was safe with him. Then, he began taking a count of his suitcases. As he was doing so, he happened to look up at the train. With a start, he dropped his bags and raced back to the car in which he had been travelling. What prompted that burst of activity was the face of his bride, with whom he had just married and returned from a honeymoon trip, staring from a window.
Albert Einstein was working at the Princeton University. One day when he was going back home he forgot his home address. The driver of the cab aid not recognize him. Einstein asked the driver if he knew Einstein’s home. The driver exclaimed that there could be no one who did not know Einstein’s address. He added that everyone in Princeton knew where Einstein lived and asked him if he wanted to meet Einstein. Einstein with a sheepish grin replied that he was Einstein and he had forgotten his residential address. He requested the cabbie if he could take him there. The astonished driver drove him home and dropped him safely. The cabbie considered driving Einstein a great honour and refused to charge him for the service.
- Edison travelled to New Jersey by ______.
- The station master enquired Edison if ______.
- Edison raced back to the car when he saw ______.
- Albert Einstein was working in ______.
- One day, when he was going back home, he ______.
- Einstein asked the cab driver if he knew ______.
- The driver was so good that he ______.
Solution
- Edison travelled to New Jersey by a train.
- The station master enquired Edison if had left anything behind.
- Edison raced back to the car when he saw the face of his bride.
- Albert Einstein was working in Princeton university.
- One day, when he was going back home, he forgot his residential address.
- Einstein asked the cab driver if he knew Einstein’s residence.
- The driver was so good that he refused to charge him for his.
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