VIII: Fill in each numbered blank with a suitable word.  

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   The morning train seemed ...(1)... crowded ...(2)... passengers than usual. At ...(3)... I thought I would have to stand for the whole ...(4)..., but when the train ...(5)... the station, I ...(6)... an empty seat ...(7)... to the window. I looked carefully around but ...(8)...of the passengers seemed to ...(9)... that seat. I came up to that seat and ...(10)...down . Opposite me ...(11)... a boy, he was playing with a  small object, no doubt but as soon as I looked at it again, I ...(12)... why I had found the seat so empty.

VIII: Fill in each numbered blank with a suitable word.  

                 first      next      more     left    none      was    with     have      realized      sat    

   The morning train seemed ...(1)... crowded ...(2)... passengers than usual. At ...(3)... I thought I would have to stand for the whole ...(4)..., but when the train ...(5)... the station, I ...(6)... an empty seat ...(7)... to the window. I looked carefully around but ...(8)...of the passengers seemed to ...(9)... that seat. I came up to that seat and ...(10)...down . Opposite me ...(11)... a boy, he was playing with a  small object, no doubt but as soon as I looked at it again, I ...(12)... why I had found the seat so empty.

VIII. Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. (2 pts)

            Television  owes its origins to many inventors. But it was the single -minded determination of an amateur’ John Logie Baird ‘that led (1)…….. the first live television broadcast.

            Born in Scotland in 1888 and educated in Glassgow’ John Logie Baird earned a living (2)………a razor-blade salesman. In the 1890s Guglielmo Marconi showed that sound could (3)……..sent by radio waves. Baird became convinced that a similar system could transmit a picture. He spent most of (4)……..spare time working on his ideas in his tiny workshop without any commercial support. He had to use his own earnings to continue his research. In 1924 ‘Baird successfully transmitted the general outline of a figure over more (5)……… three meters. He continued to experiment and (6) ………October 25 ‘1925  transmitted a recognizable image of a doll. He ran down to the office on the office on the ground floor and persuaded one of the boys to come upstairs. (7)………boy became the first  living image transmitted by television. Overnight ‘Baird became famous and the money (8) ……..he needed to continue his research was at (9)……...made one from London to New York. He continued experimenting  (10) ………spent his last years exploring the possibility of color television.

Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word.

Fill in each numbered blank with ONE suitable word. Write your answers in the space provided. (2.0 points)                       

Computing is now at the (1) ___________ stage as printing was when the first printing presses were used. (2) ___________ printing presses were invented, only rich people like kings and dukes could afford to buy books. Often these (3) ___________ were unable to read and hadn’t got enough time to learn. In any case, the books were so big that it was difficult for anyone to relax with a book (4) ___________ we do today. They wanted books (5) ___________ they were expensive and there was something magical about them. Only a few people were able to (6) ___________, and it took an extremely long time to write a book. Monks and other people who could write said ordinary people could not learn to read.

The position with computers is very similar today. A few years (7) ___________, computers were very large and expensive. Business managers and rich people ordered them but (8) ___________ didn’t know how to (9) ___________ them. In many (10) ___________,  however, the situation has now completely changed. Lots of people not only own microcomputer but also know how to use them.

Fill in each blank in the following letter with a suitable word in the box. During the weekend I traveled ……………………..(1) air for the first time in my life. I generally travel by train or bus. It is both …………………..(2) and safer. But this was the short journey. At the beginning I did not feel very happy. This feeling …………………..(3) last long. The trip was very exciting. I was soon high up in the sky among the clouds. The view of mountains,………………………(4) and rivers was interesting and unusual. I ………………….…(5) my short and comfortable journey very much.

Fill in each blank with a suitable word. The Dead Rabbit Mr Bennet was very upset when his pet dog walked through the back door with a dead rabbit in his mouth. He also became very anxious when he realized ___________________ (1) the rabbit was his next-door neighbors’ pet, Fluffy. ‘What ___________________ (2) we going to do?’ he said. ‘They’ll be furious when they ___________________ (3) out.’ Fortunately the rabbit had not ___________________ (4) badly damaged. The dog had just made it very dirty by playing ___________________ (5) it. So Mr Bennet took it upstairs and gave it a good wash and shampoo. He even dried it. Then he took it outside and put it ___________________ (6) into its cage in the neighbors’ garden. The following day Mr Bennet ___________________ (7) sitting in his garden when the woman from next door appeared at the garden fence. She began to ___________________ (8) him how upset her little girl was. ‘What happened?’ asked Mr Bennet, trying ___________________ (9) look innocent. ‘Poor Fluffy died ___________________ (10) Wednesday, and we buried it,’ she explained. ‘But this morning it was back in its cage!’ 

Fill in the blank with a suitable word. The first video game, a table tennis game, was invented (1) ........................ a physicist in 1958. This was (2) ........................ by more sport and space games and the first video arcade game was released in 1971. People said it was (3) ........................ difficult to play! The first Nintendo home consoles went on (4) ........................ in the 1980s. However, in (5) ........................ days, many games were played on PCs. In 1989, the first hand- held console was seen in a (6) ........................ homes. Then in the 1990s PlayStation, still the (7) ........................ popular console, was developed. Nowadays, many teenagers (and adults!) (8) ........................ hours playing many (9) ........................ kinds of video games at home, usually on games consoles. Sometimes tournaments are played on the (10) ........................ by people who never meet. I’m not sure what new games will (11) ........................ designed in the future, but I’m sure teenagers will (12) ........................ them exciting.

VIII. Fill in each blank with the suitable word in the following passage.

I have just .............................. (1) a letter from my brother, Dave. He is in Australia. He has been there .................................. (2) six months. He is an engineer. He is ..............................(3) for a big farm and he has visited a great ........................... (4) of different places in Australia. He has just bought ............................. (5) Australian car and he has ................................... (6) to Alice Spring, a small town to the center of Australia. He .............................. (7) soon visit Darwin. From ............................... (8), he’ll fly to Perth. My brother has ..............................(9) been abroad before, so he ...................... (10)  this trip very exciting.