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A. Whom is it being made by?
B. I'm afraid I've forgotten his name.
A. Let me think... Oh, it's professor Glushkov!
B. Right you are! His name has been known since 1980.
J U S T F O R F U N
I. Read this story and try to answer the questions after it.
The Scientists and the Watches
One night, a crazy scientist got involved in a rather silly argument with a fellow
scientist. They were arguing about whose watch was the better, the Swiss one or the
Japanese one. Being scientists, they decided to do an experiment to test the watches.
The first part of the test was to see if both were waterproof. (They were both so
convinced of the quality of their watches that they were willing to risk ruining them.)
They went into their laboratory looking very serious. They filled the sink with
water, put the watches in, waited impatiently for ten minutes and took them out.
They could see there was something wrong with both watches, but being
cautious men of science they observed them for a couple of hours before speaking to
each other. The tension was unbearable. They silently realized that the Swiss watch
was losing sixty minutes an hour and the Japanese one was 120 minutes slow.
The scientist with the Japanese watch then slowly raised his head and said,
"Both watches are now defective but my watch is right more often than yours, so it's
better." The scientist with the Swiss watch left the room without saying a word.
Was the man with the Japanese watch right? If so, how?
1. What were they arguing about at the beginning of the story?
2. Why couldn't they go on with the experiment after they took the watches out of the
water?
3. What did they do for a couple of hours?
4. What did they realise the Swiss watch was doing?
5. If the Swiss watch was losing sixty minutes in sixty minutes, was it
a. going forwards?.
b. stopped?
c. going backwards?
6. So how often in every 12-hour periods would the Swiss watch show the right time?
a. Once.
b. Twice.

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