if you want a good score for that you
should practice regularly. in this page
i give some system for you which are so helpful.
you get 1 hour for this module and you should solve 3
passage or you get a answer sheet with main question paper. this hour you
should give all answer and you must transfer all answer in the answer sheet.
Reading passage 1
Early Telecommunication devices
Although it is hardly used anymore, the telegraph is familiar to
most people. This early telecommunication devices is credited, as any school
student knows, to samuel morse, who, in 1844 made the first long-distance electronic
communication via his invention, the morse`s telegraph. What is not so commonly
known is that morse`s was not the only telegraph nor he the only such inventor
at this time. A rival system, developed by William cook and Charles Wheatstone,
was patented in England
in 1845 and was subsequently adopted for use by British rail companies to
enable speedy communication between rail station.
However, the
Cooke-Wheatstone telegraph, which used six wires and a fragile receiver
requiring five magnetic needles, proved to the awkward to use, difficult to
transport and expensive to built. Morse`s version used one wire and a receiver
of a simpler and stronger design. This is, no doubt, why it became the favored
telegraph in many parts of the world, especially the United states, which built a
telegraph line along railway tracks crossing the North American continent,
linking eastern cities with western frontiers.
Morse chose the
magnetic Telegraph company to handle the patents for his telegraph technology,
and within seven years of the appearance of his invention, the company had
licensed use of the telegraph to more than 50 companies across the US. In
1851, twelve of this companies come together to form the Western union company.
by 1866, Western union had grown to include more than 4000 telegraph offices,
almost all in rail stations.
Another early
telecommunications device is still very much with us the telephone. Although
the telephone is popularly thought to be the brainchild of one man, Alexander
Graham Bell, this is not the while truth. Phillip Reis, a Schoolteacher in Germany,
invented a device in 1861 that he labelled a telephone. Reis’s invention was limited
to transmitting musical tones, however, and could not sent the sound of the
human voice across the wire.
While Reis was
working on his invention, Bell
and another man, Elisha Gray, were also working toward the invention of the
telephone, though by an indirect route. Both were, in fact, seeking ways of
allowing multiple telegraph signals to travel along the some telegraph line - a
system known as a harmonic telegraph. Bell
worked in Boston while Gray was based in Chicago, and the tow were
rivals in their area of research. for both inventors, the perfection of the
harmonic telegraph proved too difficult and both, separately but at around the
some time, changed plans and started on the development of a telephone. Most
interesting of all is the fact that both men applied for a patent to the US patent
office for their respective telephones on the some day, 14 February 1876. Bell was lucky enough to
have arrived a few hours earlier than
Gray and so it was Bell whose name was to be forever associated with the
telephone. The harmonic telegraph, incidentally, was perfected by Thomas
Edison, best known as the inventor of the light built, in 1881.
Rights to Bell’s
patent (now recognized as the most valuable patent in history of technology)
were offered to Western Union for $100000,
with the assumption that the giant telegraph company would be enthusiastic
about the new technology. But Western union disliked Bell`s design and instead
asked Elisha Gray to make refinements to his original telephone design. Bell`s company
began to set up its own business and sell telephones, while Western Union, with
its somewhat different design, was its competitor.
Competition between the two
continued for about two years, but all the while, the Bell
company was mounting a legal challenge to Western Union,
claiming it held the only true basic patents for the telephone. it based its
claim on the fact that Bell
had beaten Gray to the, patent office and so should be the sole recognized
inventor of the telephone. Eventually, western Union
had to agree with bell and gave up its telephone rights and patents to the bell
company. The telephone company`s entire network of telephones was handed over
to the Bell company. As compensation, Western Union was given 20 per cent of
revenue from rental of its former equipment, this arrangement was to last until
Bell`s patents expired. In an effort to fight the power the Bell company
enjoyed from exclusive rights to Bell`s patents, a small telephone company,
pacific Union, established telephone services in the 1920s and 1930s that it
claimed were based on the telephone design of Phillips Reis. They maintained
that because Reis`s invention pre-dated Bell1s, the Bell, design was not the
first of its kind and, therefore, Bell`s patents were not valid. Although the
court accepted that the company may have been using Reis`s technology, it nonetheless
held that only Bell`s patents could legally by used.
The Bell
company, eventually named American Telephone & telegraph, thus formed an
effective monopoly on telephone services in the United States. The company
subsequently grew to such an extant that, a century later, it was the largest
privately held enterprise in the world, with more than a million employees
controlling communication between more than 100 million telephones. in1984,
American Telephone & Telegraph was found by a US court to be too monopolistic and
was ordered to be broken up into several smaller companies.
patent: an official recognition of a person as the inventor of a
device
monopoly: exclusive control
of a market
Question 1-6
Complete the table below.
choose no more than three words from the passage for each answer. Write your answers in boxes 1-5 on your
answer sheet.
Year
|
Event
|
Inventor (s)
(by surname)
|
1845
|
patent of telegraph
|
..(1)..
|
1851
|
establishment of ..(2)..
|
|
1861
|
invention of telephone
|
..(3)..
|
1876
|
application for patent of ..(4)..
|
Gray
|
1881
|
successful development of ..(5) ..
|
Edison
|
Question 6-10
Look at the
following lists of inventors and companies. Match each inventor to one of the
companies that used his/their technology. Choose E if there is no information
in the reading passage. Write the appropriate letters A-E in boxes 6-10 on your
answer sheet.
NB: you may use
any letter more than once.
Inventors
|
Morse Example*
|
(6) Bell
(7) Cooke and
Wheatstone
(8) Edison
(9) Gray
(10) Reis
|
Companies
|
A
British rail companies
B
Pacific Union
C
American telephone & telegraph
D
Western Union
E
no information in reading
passage
|
·
Example
answer: D
Question 11-14
using no more than three words , answer the following questions.
Write your answers in boxes 11-14
on your answer sheet.
11) name one reason why Cooke and Wheatstone`s invention was not as successful as
Morse`s.
12) In what type of location did Western
Union typically offer its telegraph services ?
13) What sort of information was Reis`s original invention able to
send ?
14) What device did Alexander Graham Bell try but fail to invent ?
Solution to Reading
passage 1
the 70-80 % answer maintain serial in the
reading passage. get the firs question generally we go to the passage first an
than 2 ,3, 4, 5 for finding answer.
Before the passage we should understand
the question. when we understand the question than we go to the passage for
finding answer. if we read passage first
it west our time for that we do not give all answer within 1 hour .
Question-1: What is not so commonly known is that Morse`s was not the only technology nor he
the only such inventor at this time. A rival system developed by William Cooke and
Charles Wheatstone, was patented in England in 1845..........
Answer-1: Cooke and Wheatstone.
Question-2: in 1851, twelve of these
companies come together to form the Western Union Company.
Answer-2: Western Union Company
Question-3: Phillip Reis, a school teacher in Germany invented a device in 1861
that he lebeled a telephone
Answer-3: Reis
Question-4: Most interesting of all is the fact that both
men applied for a patent to the US
patent office for their respective telephones on the some day, 14 February 1876
Answer-4: Respective telephones
Question- 5: The harmonic telegraph, incidentally, was perfected by Thomas Edison
Answer-5:
The harmonic telegraph.
Question- 6: The Bell Company , eventually named American Telephone & telegraph
Answer- 6: C
Question-7: A rival system, developed by
William cook and Charles Wheatstone, was patented in England in 1845 and was
subsequently adopted for use by British rail companies to enable speedy
communication between rail station.
Answer-7: A
Question-8: The harmonic telegraph, incidentally, was perfected by Thomas Edison,
best known as the inventor of the light built, in 1881.
Answer-8:
E
Question-9: But Western union disliked Bell`s design
and instead asked Elisha Gray to make........
Answer-9:
D
Question-10: a small telephone company, pacific Union, established telephone services in the 1920s and
1930s that it claimed were based on the telephone design of Phillips Reis.
Answer-10:
B
Question-11: However, the Cooke-Wheatstone
telegraph, which used six wires and a fragile receiver requiring five magnetic
needles, proved to the awkward to use, difficult to transport and expensive to
built.
Answer-11: used six wires
Question-12: by 1866, Western union had
grown to include more than 4000 telegraph offices, almost all in Rail stations.
Answer-12: Rail stations
Question-13: Reis invention was limited to
transmitting musical tones.
Answer-13:
musical tones
Question-14: for both
inventors, the perfection of the harmonic telegraph proved too difficult and
both, separately but at around the some time, changed plans and started on the
development of a telephone.
Answer-14: harmonic telegraph
Note :
you can find answer by capital letter and number or
date other name etc.