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Talk about this person.
Background information
Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. Apart from being a successful statesman, he was also well known as a leading American author, printer and publisher, successful diplomat, creative scientist and inventor.
Franklin
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New research suggests that the story may be fiction instead of fact.
Careful-reading
pay attention to the first and the last sentence.
2. Read the text again and match the main ideas with the paragraph(s).