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1. “Visible Speech” helped people to pronounce words which they could not hear.

2. He had to give all his energy and time to one thing only knowledge of electricity.

3. The telephone was to carry sound from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.

4. We must do something to make the telephone work better.

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ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL

Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh in 1847. His father was a world-famous teacher of speech and the inventor of a system which he called “Visible Speech”. It helped deaf persons to pronounce words they could not hear. Alexander chose the same profession, and became a teacher of the deaf, he moved to the USA and began to teach deaf children to speak. At the same time he worked at improving his father’s invention.

In 1866 the nineteen-year-old Bell started thinking about sending tones by telegraph. In some time he arrived at the idea of the “harmonic telegraph”, which would send musical tones electrically from one place to another. So he had to give all his energy and time to one thing only - knowledge of electricity.

“We have to do something to make our telephone work better”, Bell used to say. At last they decided to try a new kind of transmitter. The new transmitter was set in Bell’s bedroom. Watson was sitting in the laboratory. He put his ear to the receiver and was waiting. Suddenly he heard Bell’s voice. And not the voice only but the words too, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you”. It was on the 10th of March, 1876. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. In a few years there were telephones all over the world. In 1915 the first transcontinental telephone line was opened. Graham Bell sat in New York at a desk with a telephone before him, while his friend Watson was listening more than three hundred thousand miles away in San Francisco.

Everyone expected to hear a serious, scientific speech. Suddenly everybody heard his clear voice as he spoke into his old transmitter, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you”. He repeated the words which he had said almost forty years before. Watson answered, “I would be glad to come, but it would take me a week”.

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What did Bell say on the opening of the transcontinental telephone line?

ВАРИАНТ II

1. Перепишите и переведите предложения. Определите, какой частью речи являются все слова с окончанием - “s”, и какую функцию это окончание выполняет:

- 3 л. ед. ч. Present Simple;

- мн. число существительного;

- притяжательный падеж.

1. Stratford-upon-Avon has many buildings that are connected with William Shakespeare.

2. A statue of Robin Hood, England’s most famous folk hero stands at the foot of the Nottingham Castle (замок).

3. The history of the East End of London belongs to the immigrants.