Контрольная работа для 8 класса общеобразовательного уровня по английскому языку

Telephone.

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February14, 1876 was a day that changes the history of communication forever. On that day a tall Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell walked into the New York patent office. He was carrying the drawing of his invention. The invention was able to transmit the sound of the voice by wire over long distances. We know this invention as the telephone. Just two hours late on the same day, another man Elisha Gray came to the same patent office with "his telephone". But, unfortunately for him, it was too late. Bell has gone into history as the inventor of the telephone.

The first real telephone call was on March 6, 1876, when bell, in one room, called to his assistant in another room. "Come here, Watson, I want you." Watson heard bell through a receiver which Bell had connected to the transmitter.

After that bell started his famous company: the Bell Telephone Company. The new invention quickly became popular. A month after Bell invented the telephone, his telephone company had sold only six phones! A year and a half later they had sold 778 telephones. Fifteen years after the invention there were five million phones in America.

Nowadays the Bell Telephone Company (later AT&T) is the largest telephone company in the world.

Telephone.

transmit - передавать inventor - изобретатель receiver - приемник

wire - провод invention - изобретение

February14, 1876 was a day that changes the history of communication forever. On that day a tall Scotsman, Alexander Graham Bell walked into the New York patent office. He was carrying the drawing of his invention. The invention was able to transmit the sound of the voice by wire over long distances. We know this invention as the telephone. Just two hours late on the same day, another man Elisha Gray came to the same patent office with "his telephone". But, unfortunately for him, it was too late. Bell has gone into history as the inventor of the telephone.

The first real telephone call was on March 6, 1876, when bell, in one room, called to his assistant in another room. "Come here, Watson, I want you." Watson heard bell through a receiver which Bell had connected to the transmitter.

After that bell started his famous company: the Bell Telephone Company. The new invention quickly became popular. A month after Bell invented the telephone, his telephone company had sold only six phones! A year and a half later they had sold 778 telephones. Fifteen years after the invention there were five million phones in America.

Nowadays the Bell Telephone Company (later AT&T) is the largest telephone company in the world.

1. Circle the correct answers to the questions:

1. February 14, 1876 was the day when

1. Morse invented his code

2. b) Bell invented the telephone

3. Rowland Hill invented the first stamp

2. Bell's invention was able

1. To send letters

2. To code the letters of the alphabet

3. To translate the sound of the voice by wire over long distances

3. Elisha Gray didn't become the inventor of the telephone because

1. Bell's invention was better

2. He didn't know the address of the patent office

3. Bell arrived at the patent office two hours before him

4. In 1891 there were

1. 778 telephones

2. Six telephones

3. Five million telephones

2. Answer the questions:

1. When was the first telephone call?

2. How many telephones did the Company sell in a year and half after Bell started his company?

3. What is the largest telephone company now?

4. Who was an inventor of the telephone?

5. Where was the patent office which A.G.Bell carried the drawing of the telephone?

3. True or false:

1. A.G. Bell was born in New York.

2. Bell's invention was able to transmit the sound and the picture by wire.

3. Bell is the inventor of the telephone.

4. In 1876 everyone in New York had his own telephone.

5. Nowadays there are five million telephones in America.