Alexander Graham Bell (1) _____ born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was an expert in phonetics, the study of the sounds of languages. As a boy, Bell became interested in sounds (2) _____speech. (3) _____1870, the Bells decided to emigrate to America. They lived in Boston, where Alexander taught in a school for the deaf. There he began (4) _____ some experiments with a machine to help the deaf hear. While experimenting this machine, Bell (5) ____ up with an idea. Why not use electricity to send the human voice from one place to another? Bell began working on a new (6) _____.
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