THIS HOUSE IS MORE SPACIOUS AS THAT WHITE HOUSE I BOUGHT IN RAPID C...

9. This house is more spacious as that white house I bought in Rapid City, South Dakota last year. A B C D10 Gardening, according to recent surveys, it is the eighth most popular A B CAmerican leisure-time activity. DV. ReadingA. Read the pasage then fill in the blank with the most suitable word.I was born in London and had lived in cities (1) most of my life. The one exception is the year i (2) with my uncle in Canada. he owned (3) enormous farm, miles from anywhere. Every morning i had to get up (4) the sun and help my uncle on the field. he was such a nice man, though that i couldn’t let him know how (5) i was. So you can imagine my feelings when, because of my husband’s work, we (6) to this small village three years ago. We arrived in the middle of january and (7) was snow everywhere. The heating didn’t (8) and it was freezing cold. (9), the welcome from our neighbours was warm and we continued to feel very much at home in the village. I have never once (10) coming here.B. Read the second passage then choose one word from the four options A, B, C or D to fill in eachnumbered blankCaptioned TelevisionBy the 1950s many American families owned television sets. During television’s first 20years, deaf people(1) most of the fun. They could not hear what was being said and had to guess.Deaf people who watched television liked sports and action shows but they were disappointed with(2) programs. If there was a lot of dialogue, deaf viewers couldn’t follow the plot. Even the most skilled lipreaders could only catch part of the talking. This frustrated many deaf people.In the late 1960s, a man started experimenting. Malcom Norwood thought that deaf people could (3)television programs, too. He wanted to delvelop captions for the programs. Norwood worked for the federalgovernment’s Media Services and Captioned films Division at the Bureau of Education of theHandicapped.Norwood surveyed many hearing Americans. He wanted to see how they felt about seeing captions on thetelevision screen. Too many people were against the (4) . Norwood realized he had to develop another wayof captioning – one that would not (5) hearing people.In october of 1971, Norwood’s (6) signed a contract with WGBH-TV, a public television station inBoston. WGBH was hired to experiment with captions. They agreed to (7) a captioned televisiopn programfor Norwood. That program was made. It was shown on television and at a special convention.The type of captions made by WGBH could (8) on any television. No special equipment was needed.These were called “ open captions”.Later, a new machine was invented. This device was made to send signals on a special part of thetelevision picture. the signals could be captions. if a family had another kind of machine in their home or intheir TV set, then the captions (or signals) would (9) on their television screen. Without the machine, nocaptions would be seen. That special machine is called a decoder. it receives the signals transmitted from thetelevision station, Caption that (10) a decoder are called “ closed captions”.