英语介绍名人（简短一些）

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Helen Keller

Helen Keller was a very bright and beautiful girl. At the age of six months she could already say a few words. But before she was two years old, she was badly ill. She could not see or hear, and soon she could not even talk. Since then Helen had to fight for what she wanted.

When she was six, her parents invited a teacher for her. With the help of the teacher, She began to see and hear the world around her through her hands. She learned to read the books for the blind. The teacher took Helen for long walks and told her about all the beautiful sight. Helen touched flowers, climbed trees and smelled a storm before it came. She also learned how to swim and ride a horse.

After she grew up, she became a famous writer in America. Her first and most famous book is“The story of My life.”Her story has brought new hope to many blind and deaf people. It gave light to those in darkness and encouraged them to live and work.

Thomas Edison was a famous American scientist. He was born in 1847. When he was a child, he liked to find out how things worked. He was in school for only three months. He asked his teacher a lot of strange questions. Most of them had nothing to do with his lessons. The teacher thought the boy was not bright and was not worth teaching. When he told this to Edison�s mother,she took her son out of school. As she had been a teacher,she taught him herself. The boy read a lot. Soon he became very interested in science. At the age of ten, Edison had already built a chemistry lab for himself. Ever since then, he never stopped searching for new and better ways to do things.

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston. He left school when he was ten years old and worked for his father for two years. Then he went to work on his brother�s newspaper. He became the editor of this paper when he was sixteen. By the age of 24 he was one of the most successful men in Philadephia.

Franklin contributed a great deal to his city of Philadephia. He helped to establish the Philadelphia Library. He helped to build the first hospital in Philadelphia. He was a founder of the Academy of Philadephia. Two of his greatest interests were science and politics. He became famous as an inventor.In one year he invented a new kind of stove, bifocal glasses and the lightning�rod.

Beijamin Franklin died in 1790. He was 84 years old and he had worked for his people for more than fifty years. Benjamin Franklin was,some have said, the first American.

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