George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a   小题1: （贫穷的） family. He had to start work when he was only 小题2:   （八）. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time  小题3: （学习）about engines. And on holidays he often made one engine to pieces and studied each piece小题4: （仔细地）. Soon he became a very good worker   小题5: （虽然）he could not read or write. He began to learn English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked along way to have 小题6:   （功课） from a young school teacher. On his eighteenth  小题7: （生日）, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George  小题8:  （发明） many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among 小题9:（他们）. Today when we take trains from one place to 小题10: （另一个）,we’ll think of this great man —George Stephenson.