VI. Read the text and complete the gaps from 1 to 6 with the sentences A – G. There is one sentence that you do not need:
A. In 1975, he taught architecture, but he continued to invent puzzles.
B. He did a number of different jobs and then became a journalist in the 1930s.
C. He was born in Budapest in 1944.
D. However, it didn’t work because the ink was very thick.
E. In the 1970s, he worked as an architect and in his spare time he invented a mechanical puzzle.
F. It quickly became popular all over the world.
G. It wasn’t the only thing he invented.
Two great inventors
Laszlo Biro was born in Budapest in 1899. After he left school, he studied medicine at university, but he didn’t finish his studies. (1)............. He noticed that newspaper ink dried very quickly on the paper, and put the ink into his fountain pen. (2)............... He and his brother Gyorgy then invented a new type of pen with a small ball at the end. The new pen worked with the thick ink. (3).................. In 1939, Biro moved to Paris and then to Argentina. Biro invented many other things but the most important was the ball-point pen, or “biro”. Laszlo Biro died in Buenos Aires in 1985.
Erno Rubik’s father was an engineer and his mother was a poet. (4)................. After leaving school, he studied architecture and design at the Technical University. (5)................. Rubik called it the “Magic Cube”. It soon became popular in Hungary and the rest of Europe. (6)................ In the early 1980s, the cube became popular in the USA too, and got a new name: “Rubik cube”. It is the world’s best-selling toy. Some people say there are 300 million cubes in the world. Rubik became very rich and went on to invent many more games and puzzles
