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Página Principal ► Miscellaneous ► 9391 ► Third Term ► READING THE STRAW HOW DID IT BEND? Pregunta 1 Sin responder aún

Read the text carefully, then match the words based on the reading.

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 Match the words to their synonyms.   Sipped

tasted

Gentlemen

noblemen

Bend

curve

Grooves

channels

Brought

transported

Mint

perfect

Struggling

stressed

Bendy

flexible

Patience

tolerance

Wrapped

covered

gentlemen  patience

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struggling 

Based on the reading section ll the gaps brought  using the correct word. wrapped  Marvin Chester Stone was feeling thirsty. Winding down after a long day's work, he sipped / tasted

 

a mint / pristine

 

julep at his home in Washington, D.C. But something was getting in his way. More particularly, something was getting in his drink. It was an unwelcome reedy residue. It was his straw. This was the 1880s, when gentlemen / men

 

sipped their whiskey through long tubes

made of natural rye that lent a grassy avor to whatever drink they plopped in. Stone didn't have much patience / tolerance   and bendy  did something radical that billions of people around the world appreciated in the 130 years since. He reinvented the straw and for that to happen he built a machine to wind paper into a tube and used a para n wax to keep it from melting in bourbon. He patented the product in plastic  1888.   Half a century after, Joseph B. Friedman was sitting at his brother's fountain parlor, the Varsity Sweet Shop, in the 1930s, watching his little daughter Judith fuss over a milkshake. She was drinking out of a paper straw, so we can be assured that the milkshake did not taste like grass. But since Stone's paper straw was straight, little Judith was struggling / stressed Smithsonian's Lemelson Center explains, he brought / taken

 

a screw into the straw toward the top. Then he wrapped / covered

 

to drink it up. Friedman had an idea. As the

a straw to his home, where he liked to tinker with. Friedman inserted  

dental oss around the paper, tracing grooves made by the

inserted screw. Finally, he removed the screw, leaving an accordion-like ridge in the middle of the straight straw. Voila! He had created a straw that could bend around its grooves / channels

 

to reach a child's face over the edge of a glass. The modern bendy straw was born.

The plastic would come later. In 1939, Friedman founded Flex-Straw Company. By the 1940s, he was manufacturing ex-straws with his own custom-built machines. His rst sale didn't go to a restaurant, but rather to a hospital, where glass tubes still ruled. Nurses realized that bendy / exible

 

straws could help bed-ridden patients drink while lying down. Solving the "Judith problem" created a multi-million dollar

business. The drinking tube is practically as old as history. But only in the last century-and-a-half did two tweaks lead us to the simple stick of bendy plastic / malleable

 

Choose the best word for each space   

  you unwrap every time you grab a seat at a diner. 

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Read the text carefully again, then organize the phrases below.  

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 Match the following phrases from the article   She was drinking out

of a paper straw

The modern bendy straw

was born

It was an unwelcome

reedy residue.

he built a machine to wind paper into a tube and

used a paraffin wax to keep it from melting in bourbon

Stone didn't have much patience and did something radical 

that billions of people around the world appreciated

He patented the product

in 1888

B. Friedman was sitting at his

brother's fountain parlor

he was manufacturing ex-straws with his

own custom-built machines.

Friedman inserted a screw into the straw

toward the top

we can be assured that the milkshake

did not taste like grass.

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Read the text carefully again, then answer the questions below. 

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For question 1- 5, mark A, B OR C 

1.What does an engineer do?    Seleccione una: a. Make projects and develop ideas to improve an area or a product. b. Serve people and guide them in their daily problems. c. He manages money and rules a company.

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2. What kind of duties does an engineer do at work? 

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Seleccione una: a. Select people’s CVs to be part of the company b. Design machines and study projects c. Reply e-mails and letters

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3. Where does an engineer work?

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Seleccione una: a. In a bank b. In a company c. On a TV reality

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4. According to the article, Marvin Chester Stone was... ____________ 

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Seleccione una: a. Thirsty.  Winding down after a long day's work b. Bored. Winding down after a long day's work c. Lazy. Winding down after a long day's work

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5. The article says that In 1939, Friedman founded ________  Company

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Seleccione una: a. Increase-Straw Company b. Lower- Straw Company c. Flex-Straw Company