Reading Comprehension : Electrical appliances

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  1. What is the text mainly about?
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    great achievements household appliances

    Your answer:
    The evolution of technology
    The inventors of household appliances
    The importance of household appliances in modern life.
    The history of electrical appliances


  3. What are the two innovations that facilitated the development of household appliances?
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    great achievements household appliances

    Your answer:
    light and power
    new engines and discoveries
    resistance heating and small efficient motors
    tjhe magnetron and microprocessor


  5. What are the design innovations focused on?
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    great achievements household appliances

    Your answer:
    making appliances more efficient and cheaper
    making life more modern
    making appliances lighter, smaller and more useful
    making electricity more attractive to costumers


  7. What does the word "drudgery" on paragraph 4 mean?
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    great achievements household appliances

    Your answer:
    wrong ideas
    house chores
    cleaning
    boring and unpleasant work


  9. What are the advantages of using household appliances at home?
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    great achievements household appliances

    Your answer:
    housewives do more chores now
    chores are easier to perform
    it is possible to do several things at the same time
    life is cheaper now


  11. Which two appliances were invented first ?
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    great achievementsn household appliances

    Your answer:
    the electric toaster and the vacuum cleaner
    the blender and the mixer
    the washing machine and the dryer
    the freezer and the microwave oven


  13. Who patented the electric toaster?
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    great achievements household appliances

    Your answer:
    Thomas Edison
    Albert Marsh
    Perryl L. Spencer
    Hoover


  15. When was the microwave oven developed?
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    great achievements household appliances

    Your answer:
    in the 1960's
    in the 1930's
    in the 1940's
    in the 1970's


  17. What was the major event that helped to develop the electrical appliances?
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    great achievements household appliances

    Your answer:
    the discovery of electricity
    the standarization of electric outlets and plugs
    the invention of the lightbulb
    ythe experimentation with magnetrons


  19. Why are the household appliances considered great achievements in engineering?
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    great achievements household appliances

    Your answer:
    because they allow women to work out of home
    because everybody can use them
    because people have more free time to enjoy life
    because people program their life



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