Fill in each blank with a suitable word deriving from one of the words in the box
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VIII. Fill in each blank with a suitable word deriving from one of the words in the box. (2 pts)
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One of the best-known (0) inventors of the last century was Thomas Edison. He (1) __________ came up with new inventions in his life - 1,093 in all - but his (2) __________ remained the phonograph, a machine for recording sound. He was very enthusiastic about the possibilities for his machine, which could be used for recording (3) __________ of music, dictating letters, making toys - the possibilities seemed (4) __________. Although the machine was quite (5) __________ and the sound quality was not particularly good, the phonograph quickly gained great (6) __________. The massive success of the phonograph encouraged others, and in 1887 the gramophone was invented. This used a (7) __________ system, a flat disk instead of a cylinder. Other improvements (8) __________ led to a machine that could reproduce high quality sound.
IX. Read the passage and choose the word or phrase that best fits each blank. (2 pts)
The (0) __________ history of modern tourism began on July 5, 1841, when a train carrying 500 factory workers (1) __________ off from Leicester towards Loughborough, 12 miles away. This modest excursion had been (2) __________ by a young man called Thomas Cook, who had neither money (3) __________ formal education. He had (4) __________ to persuade the Midland Railway Company to (5) __________ him charter a train on the condition that he would pay them back once he had sold all the tickets. His motive was not to (6) __________ a profit, but to try and improve society. (7) __________, he argued, would broaden the mind and (8) __________ people from getting into trouble with the police or causing other social problems.
VIII. Fill in each blank with a suitable word deriving from one of the words in the box. (2 pts)
DIFFER — END — EXPENSE — FAVOUR — FINAL
INVENT — PERFORM — POPULAR — REGULAR
One of the best-known (0) inventors of the last century was Thomas Edison. He (1) __________ came up with new inventions in his life - 1,093 in all - but his (2) __________ remained the phonograph, a machine for recording sound. He was very enthusiastic about the possibilities for his machine, which could be used for recording (3) __________ of music, dictating letters, making toys - the possibilities seemed (4) __________. Although the machine was quite (5) __________ and the sound quality was not particularly good, the phonograph quickly gained great (6) __________. The massive success of the phonograph encouraged others, and in 1887 the gramophone was invented. This used a (7) __________ system, a flat disk instead of a cylinder. Other improvements (8) __________ led to a machine that could reproduce high quality sound.
IX. Read the passage and choose the word or phrase that best fits each blank. (2 pts)
The (0) __________ history of modern tourism began on July 5, 1841, when a train carrying 500 factory workers (1) __________ off from Leicester towards Loughborough, 12 miles away. This modest excursion had been (2) __________ by a young man called Thomas Cook, who had neither money (3) __________ formal education. He had (4) __________ to persuade the Midland Railway Company to (5) __________ him charter a train on the condition that he would pay them back once he had sold all the tickets. His motive was not to (6) __________ a profit, but to try and improve society. (7) __________, he argued, would broaden the mind and (8) __________ people from getting into trouble with the police or causing other social problems.