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CEFR READING PART PRACTICE – TRUE OR FALSE
Read the text and find out whether the statements A-F is True or False.
Put
A
if the statement is True or put
B
if the statement is False.
TASK 20
A) The public was informed of the
Titanic
tragedy on the radio.
B) The new technology saved a lot of lives.
C) Wireless communication affects our lives.
D) John Baird got a profound education.
E) John Baird and Marconi were rivals.
F) In February 1937, the BBC adapted to the Marconi EMI system exclusively.
Much of the public first learned about radio because of a tragedy. When the luxury liner
Titanic
struck an iceberg in April 1912, the doomed ship used the new technology to
desperately call for help. Only about 700 of the 2,220 passengers were rescued, but the
number of survivors might have been much lower if other ships who received the
transmission had not arrived. At first, radio functioned as a wireless telegraph, sending
pulses of Morse code. American physicist Reginald Fessenden came up with a scheme for
modulating radio waves, a technique that made it possible to sound. In 1906 he conducted
the first radio broadcast. The first home television receiver was demonstrated in 1928.
Wireless communication technologies have transferred the world, bringing news and ideas to
far-flung corners of the globe and influencing everything from fashion and language to the
rise and fall of political systems. John Baird, a Scottish engineer, is the first man to televise
pictures of objects in motion. Educated at Larchfield Academy, the Royal Technical College,
and the University of Glasgow, he produced televised objects in outline in 1924, transmitted
recognizable human faces in 1925, and demonstrated the televising of moving objects in
1926 at the Royal Institution, London. The German post office gave him facilities to develop
a television service in 1929. When the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television
service began in 1936, his system was in competition with one promoted by Marconi
Electric and Musical Industries, and in February 1937 the BBC adopted the Marconi EMI
system exclusively. Baird demonstrated colour television in 1928 and was reported to have
completed his researches on stereoscopic television in 1946.
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