Английский язык. Методические указания и контрольная работа №2 по английскому языку для студентов 1 курса заочного отделения всех специальностей. Бидагаева Ц.Д. - 14 стр.

                                                                     transatlantic message was sent from Newfoundland to Ireland.
VI. а) Прочтите текст и ответьте на вопрос:                          Later, cables were laid to Asia and Australia. At last, news and
                                                                     business information could be sent instantly to almost every
Why did Benjamin Franklin's invention play a great role in           country in the world.
соmmunication?
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1. Benjamin Franklin was an American, famous for his interesting     соответствующий его содержанию:
and useful inventions. He published his ideas about electricity in
1752. Scientists in many countries became interested in this         1. Benjamin Franklin became famous for … .
wonderful form of energy. They wanted to find the answer to a
very important question: «Could electricity be used to develop a         a) painting portraits .
fast efficient system of long-distance communication?»                   b) his contribution in the field of electricity
2. Another American, Samuel Morse, who was a portrait painter,           c) laying a cable at the bottom of the ocean
made experiments with an electric telegraph . At first, he
connected a pencil to an electric wire. When the electricity came    2. Samuel Morse is famous for … .
through the wire, the pencil made wavy lines. Morse invented a
code that used dots and dashed for the letters of the alphabet.          a) his inventing the telegraph
Finally he discovered that telegraph messages could be sent in           b) his perfecting the telegraph and developing a
sound.                                                                      special code to send messages by telegraph
3. On the 24th of May, 1844, the first long-distance message was         c) painting different peoples’ portraits
sent by telegraph from Washington, D. C., to Baltimore,
Maryland 64 kilometres.                                              3. The first long-distance message was sent by telegraph … .
4. Telegraph companies were formed in many cities. By 1861
telegraph wires stretched across the United States from the                a) from Newfoundland to Ireland
Atlantic to the Pacific. In Europe, too, Samuel Morse's system             b) from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore
became popular.                                                            c) from America to Asia
5. But telegraph wires couldn't bе hung over the ocean. The
Atlantic Telegraph Company, which was organized in 1856,             4. It was difficult to send the first transatlantic messages
decided to try to lay a cable on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.    because … .
England and the United States contributed money for this
experiment.                                                                a) cables were not good enough
6. Many attempts were made by ships from both countries. The               b) cables had to be laid on the bottom of the
4,000-kilometer cable broke three times. Each time, more money                ocean
had to be raised. Finally, on the 7th of July, 1866, the first             c) England and USA had no enough money