10. Mary was given the book by Peter yesterday.
D. READING
Read the passage and choose the best answer for each blank.
The first signal was invented by a railway signing engineer. It was installed ………(1)………… the houses of
Parliament in 1868. It looked like any railway signal of the time, and was operated by gas. …………(2)………., it exploded and
killed a policeman, and the accident discouraged further development until cars became common.
Modern traffic lights are an American invention. Red-green systems were installed in Cleveland in 1914. Three color signals,
operated by hand from a tower in the middle of the street, were installed in New York in the 1918. The first lights of this type to
………(3)………in Britain were in London, on the junction between St. James Street and Peccadillo, in 1925. Automatic
signals were installed a year later.
In the past, traffic lights were …………(4)……. In New York, some lights had a statue on top. In Los Angeles the lights did
not just change silently, but would ring bells to wake the sleeping motorists of the 1930s. These are gone and have been …………(5)
………by standard models which are university adopted.
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