Read the following passage and choose the item (a, b, c, or d) that best answers each of the questions about it.
Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotlan His father was an expert in phonetics, the study of the sounds of languages. As a boy, Bell became interested in sounds and speech.
In 1870 the Bells decided to emigrate to Americ They lived in Boston, where Alexander taught in a school for the deaf. There he began experimenting with a machine to help the deaf hear. While experimenting with this machine, Bell had an ide Why not use electricity to send the human voice from one place to another? Bell began work on a new invention.
expert (n): chuyên gia
What does the word ‘emigrate’ in line 4 mean?
- leave somebody’s country to live in another country
- to go to a place for a short time
- travel a long way from home to work every day
- get away from something dangerous