Choose the best answers to complete
----- Nội dung dịch tự động từ ảnh -----
Traffic lights
Traffic lights only became necessary in the 19th century, when traffic
began to increase. A traffic signal (1).
by J O Knight, a railway
signaling engineer, was installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London
in 1868. It looked like a railway signal of the time but a few weeks later it
blew up, and signal of this type were no (2)
used. The modern
traffic light is an American invention, the first red and green lights, set up in
Cleveland in 1914 followed a few years later by three-colour lights in New
York. These new lights didn't arrive in Britain (3). 1925. A year later,
the first automatic lights were installed at a road junction in Wolverhampton,
where they remained in (4)____________ for the next 42 years. At the beginning
of the 1930s, the first vehicle-activated lights were set up in London. Since
these early days, traffic light design has developed to cater for (5)
types of road user.
1. A. done
2. A. any
3. A. during
4. A. use
5. A. distinct
B. discovered
B. longer
B. until
B. play
B. similar
C. invented
C. doubt
C. since
C. performance
C. different
D. manufactured
D. sooner
D. after
D. display
D. separate
Traffic lights
Traffic lights only became necessary in the 19th century, when traffic
began to increase. A traffic signal (1).
by J O Knight, a railway
signaling engineer, was installed outside the Houses of Parliament in London
in 1868. It looked like a railway signal of the time but a few weeks later it
blew up, and signal of this type were no (2)
used. The modern
traffic light is an American invention, the first red and green lights, set up in
Cleveland in 1914 followed a few years later by three-colour lights in New
York. These new lights didn't arrive in Britain (3). 1925. A year later,
the first automatic lights were installed at a road junction in Wolverhampton,
where they remained in (4)____________ for the next 42 years. At the beginning
of the 1930s, the first vehicle-activated lights were set up in London. Since
these early days, traffic light design has developed to cater for (5)
types of road user.
1. A. done
2. A. any
3. A. during
4. A. use
5. A. distinct
B. discovered
B. longer
B. until
B. play
B. similar
C. invented
C. doubt
C. since
C. performance
C. different
D. manufactured
D. sooner
D. after
D. display
D. separate