Read the passage again. Write true (T) or false (F). 1. Thomas Edison worked in a telegraph office as a paper boy.
2. He became famous because of his first invention.
3. A great achievement doesn't depend so much on cleverness as on hard
work.
4. Edison made his greatest inventions before he was 42.
5. He usually worked less than 12 hours a day.
6. It was challenging to invent the light bulb.
7. Tomas Edison's assistant was inspired by the challenges.​

Olympic games and Kazakhstan

July 17 at 11:35 am

 Taufik KARIMOV, a political analyst

On the eve of the main sporting event of the quadrennial year-the London Olympics-let's remember the achievements of Kazakhstani athletes at the Olympic games of our time.

Participation of Kazakhstani athletes in the Olympic games of our time should be divided into two parts – first as part of the USSR national team, and then, after independence, as part of the national team under its national flag.

However, first I want to warn readers – here you will see some discrepancies with the generally accepted data. For example, it is believed that for the first time Kazakhstan took part in the Olympics in 1956, in my opinion – in 1952 (then, by the way, the first medal was won, and not in 1960, as it is believed).

The first Olympic champion-Kazakh in official sources is called the wrestler Zhaksylyk USHKEMPIROV (1980), although in fact this is Alzhan ZHARMUKHAMEDOV (1972). Without detracting from the merits of our outstanding athlete, we just note that Ushkempirov is indeed the first Kazakh Olympic champion who represented Kazakhstan directly. And Kazakh Zharmukhamedov, who became the champion of the Munich Olympics in the Soviet basketball team, then lived in Moscow and played for CSKA. Then we all lived in a single state called the USSR, and it often happened that the best athletes, and not only from Kazakhstan, played for other Union republics. However, in order

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At first I believed it, but then I was under my teacher, one of the oldest actors of the theatre, and said that he really liked my playing. I was approached the other actors and said that I had fulfilled my role. It was the happiest day of my life.