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Can you imagine what life would be like if there was no telephone? You could not  1  your friends on the
phone and talk to them. lf fire  2  out to your house, you  3  call the fire department. If somebody  4  sick,
you could not call a doctor.
In our  5  life we need to communicate with  6  .We do this  7  by speaking to other people and listening
to what they have to say to us, and when we are  8  to them, we can do this very easily.  9  ,our voices will
not travel very far even when we 10  , and it is thanks to the  11  of the telephone that we are  12  able to
communicate with each other 13 hold talks when we are far apart. We can hear each other  14  clearly as if
we  15  in the same room.
The man who made this 16  was Alexander Graham Bell, a Scotsman, born in Edinburgh in 1847. Bell, a
teacher of visible speech (可视语言 ), who later moved to Canada,  17  all his time experimenting. 18  
enthusiastic(热情的) was he in his research for means for  19  speech by electricity that he left 20  time for
his day-to-day work and at one time was almost penniless (身无分文).

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