F R O M HOLY W A T E R T O C O C A - C O L A
According to the ancient mathematician Hero of Alexandria, Egyptian temples in
1 about 215 BC had devices from which one could get a squirt of holy water for a few
I small coins. Today's vending machines, however, have their origins in coin-operated
1 dispensers of tobacco and snuff in 18th-century England, and later in the American
1 colonies. These were called honour boxes, because when a coin was inserted, the
1 top opened, laying bare the supply. Customers were on their honour to take their
1 entitled amount and then close the lid so that the next person could pay. The first
I practical vending machines appeared in the United States in 1888 - chewing gum
1 machines on elevated train platforms in New York City. The machines remained gum
I and penny-candy vendors until the modern cigarette machine was introduced in
I 1926. Cigarette machines were the first to return change. The first soft drink
1 machine appeared in 1937.
E X E R C I S E 1: Find words or phrases in the passage which mean the same as:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
a) a building people use for prayer and worship
b) a thin, quick stream of liquid
c) a disc-shaped bit of metal used as money
d) a mechanical device that accepts money and
gives out a product
(phrase)
e) a device for giving something out, e.g. tickets,
cash, etc., which operates either mechanically
or manually
f) a tobacco product inhaled through the nose
g) high principles or standards of behaviour
h) put in
i) expose; make available
(phrase)
j) relating to what one is allowed to do or have
k) the piece that covers the opening at the top of
a container
I) raised above the ground
m) the correct money given back when more is
paid than required
n) a beverage without alcohol; used for cola, root
beer, ginger ale, etc.
(phrase)
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