IV.

26. I found the talk both entertaining and informative.

27. Swimming is a good form of exercise.

28. Red Alert 2 is a 2.5 D realtime computer strategy game.

29. New Amsterdam was the name of what is New York city now.

30. Sweden is a country in Northern Europe.

V.

31.A

32.B

33.B

34.C

35.D

36.D

37.B

38.C

39.D

40.A

Test 2

I.

1. B

2. D

3. C

4. C

5. A

IV.Rearrange the words to make a complete sentence.

26. I found the talk both entertaining and informative.

27. Swimming is a good form of exercise.

28. Red Alert 2 is a 2.5 D realtime computer strategy game.

29. New Amsterdam was the name of what is New York city now.

30. Sweden is a country in Northern Europe.

V.Read the passage and choose A,B,C or D to complete the blanks.

The televison is one of the most prominent inventions of the 20th Century.

It has become one of the most common ways people view the larger word beyond them , as (1) well as being one of the best ways for people to escape from the world.

In the 1880s a German (2) inventor created simplistic moving images using a filtrered light viewed (3) through a spinning disk , laying the foundations for the modern television. During the 1920s a number of (4) scientists began experimenting with sending still images using radio waves. However , it was (5) in 1928 that General Electric frist combined the idea of a (6) device that could show moving images with the technology to wirelessly broadcast them.

During the 30s and 40s the technology (7) was gradually improved upen. In America the first regular broadcasts began in 1939 though it was noy until after the Second World War that the (8) television as a standard home appliance began to really take off. After 1945 television sales in America skyrocketed. The first colour broadcast was made in 1954.

Throughout the rest of the world , television came years later , and it wasn't (9) until the late 1960s that a television was commonplace in houses throughout the West . By the 1970s , televison had become the dominant media force it is today , with 24 hour programming , mass (10) advertising and syndicated shows.