One day, Thomas Edison came home from school and gave a letter to his mother. He ________ (tell) her, "My teacher gave this letter to me and asked me to give it to my mother only." His ________ (mother) eyes were full of tears as she read ________ letter out loud to her child, "Your son is a genius (天才). This school is too small ________ him and doesn't have enough good teachers to train him. Please teach him ________ (you)."

    Many years after Edison's mother had died, Edison became one of the ________ (great) inventors of the century. One day, he was going through the old closet (壁柜) and he found a folded letter which ________ (give) to him by his teacher for his mother. He opened it. The message ________ (write) on the letter was, "Your son is mentally (精神上) ill. We cannot let him attend our school any more, he has to leave the school."

红色部分给的答案是 was given，但我觉得过去完成时 had been given 更加的恰当吧。