George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor（1）

family

family

.He had to start work when he was only eight.When George was fourteen，he became his father's jye.ailper.He spent a lot of time（2）

learning

learning

（learn） about engines.On（3）

holidays

holidays

['h?l?de?z]，he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece（4）

carefully

carefully

（careful）.Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read（5）

or

or

write.
   He（6）

began

began

（begin） to lean the English letters when he was seventeen years old.Every day（7）

after

after

he did twelve hours of hard work，he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.
   On his eighteenth birthday，he wrote his own name（8）

for

for

the first time in his life.George invented many things in his life.The train was the（9）

greatest

greatest

（great） one among them.Today when we watch or take trains from one place to（10）

another

another

[?'n?e?]，we will think of this great man—George Stephenson.