Página Principal ► Miscellaneous ► 9391 ► Third Term ► READING THE STRAW HOW DID IT BEND? Pregunta 1 Sin responder aún
Views 326 Downloads 14 File size 836KB
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.
Puntúa como 10
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
Pregunta 2 Sin responder aún Puntúa como 10
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.
Pregunta 3 Sin responder aún
Read the text carefully again, then organize the phrases below.
Puntúa como 10
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.
Pregunta 4 Sin responder aún
Read the text carefully again, then answer the questions below.
Puntúa como 10
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.
Pregunta 5 Sin responder aún
2. What kind of duties does an engineer do at work?
Puntúa como 10
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
Pregunta 6 Sin responder aún
3. Where does an engineer work?
Puntúa como 10
Seleccione una: a. In a bank b. In a company c. On a TV reality
Pregunta 7 Sin responder aún
4. According to the article, Marvin Chester Stone was... ____________
Puntúa como 10
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
Pregunta 8 Sin responder aún
5. The article says that In 1939, Friedman founded ________ Company
Puntúa como 10
Seleccione una: a. Increase-Straw Company b. Lower- Straw Company c. Flex-Straw Company