Read the following passage with ten blanks. Select one word for each blank from the following list of choices. You may not use any of the words more than once. experiment wealth grateful charge unusually accused separate electricity shelf talents ambition possibly wonderful decide remark Thomas Alva Edison was a man of 1.(__) ability who had the good luck to be born at a good time. In the period just after the American Civil War the United States was growing conditions were right for the 2.(__) of a man like Edison. Thomas was an 3.(__)curious child. Even at an early age he loved to read and make experiments. Because he was so dreamy and quiet a teacher once 4.(__)him of being stupid. Thomas’ mother was so displeased by this 5.(__)that she took her son out of school and never sent him back. She took 6.(__)of his education herself and taught him reading history science and philosophy. Edison was a very quick reader and he remembered everything. Once he got the idea of starting at the first 7.(__)of a large library and reading everything in it. But after reading through fifteen feet of books he gave up this 8.(__). Edison patented over one thousand 9.(__) inventions during his life. He never stopped trying to learn more about science and what it could do for man. His discoveries probably increased the 10.(__)of the world more than those of any other single man in history.