1. Filling in each space with one approriate word
Most people think of computers as a very modern inventions, products of our (1)........ teachnological age. But actually the idea for a computer (2).......... worked out over two centuaries ago by a man called Charler Babbage.
Babbage was born in 1791 and grew (3)......... to be a He drew up plans for serveral canculating machines which he called " engines". But despite the fact that he started (4)....... some of these he never finished any of (5)...London has finishesd building an engines based on one of Babbage's designs it has (7) .......sĩ years to complete and more than four thousand parts have been speacially made. Whether it works (8)...... not, the machine will be on (9)...... at a special exibition in the Science Museum to (10)......... people of Babbage's work
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2.Rewrite
1. He told me my request was unable.
--> He said, " You can hardly.......................................................
2.You won't reach the station in les than 20 min
--> It will take ................................................................................
3. She pased the driving test when she was already 60 years old.
--> It wasn't ................................................................................( untill)