Many years ago, there was a family {#blank#}1{#/blank#}(call) Franklin. They lived {#blank#}2{#/blank#} America. There {#blank#}3{#/blank#}(be) seventeen children in the family. One of the children was born on a January day in 1706. The boy's mother and her husband gave the boy {#blank#}4{#/blank#}name-Benjamin.

    Benjamin was the {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (clever) of all the (children). He could read when he was five and he could write {#blank#}6{#/blank#} the age of seven. When he was eight, he was sent to school.

    In school Benjamin had been good at{#blank#}7{#/blank#}(read) and writing but not good at Maths. He read all of his {#blank#}8{#/blank#}(father) books. And whenever he {#blank#}9{#/blank#}(have) a little money, he bought a book with it. He liked books. They told him how{#blank#}10{#/blank#}(do) something. At that time he invented the paddles（脚蹼） for swimming.