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Questions 1-8
Complete the summary below. Choose your answers from the box at the bottom of the page and write them in boxes 1-8 on your answer sheet.
NB There are more words than spaces so you will not use them all. You may use any of the words more than once.
EARLY FIRE-LIGHTING METHODS
They tried to ... (1) ... burning logs or charcoal ... (2) ... that they could create fire themselves. It is suspected that the first man-made flames were produced by ... (3) ....
The very first fire-lighting methods involved the creation of ... (4) ... by, for example, rapidly ... (5) ... a wooden stick in a round hole. The use of ... (6) ... or persistent chipping was also widespread in Europe and among other peoples such as the Chinese and ... (7) .... European practice of this method continued until the 1850s ... (8) ... the discovery of phosphorus some years earlier.
List of Words
- Mexicans
- random
- rotating
- despite
- preserve
- realising
- sunlight
- lacking
- heavenly
- percussion
- chance
- friction
- unaware
- without
- make
- heating
- Eskimos
- surprised
- until
- smoke
Questions 9-15
Look at the following notes that have been made about the matches described in Reading Passage 1. Decide which type of match (A-H) corresponds with each description and write your answers in boxes 9-15 on your answer sheet.
NB There are more matches than descriptions so you will not use them all. You may use any match more than once.
NOTES
9 made using a less poisonous type of phosphorus
10 identical to a previous type of match
11 caused a deadly illness
12 first to look like modern matches
13 first matches used for advertising
14 relied on an airtight glass container
15 made with the help of an army design
Types of Matches
- A the Ethereal Match
- B the Instantaneous Lightbox
- C Congreves
- D Lucifers
- E the first strike-anywhere match
- F Lundstrom's safety match
- G book matches
- H waterproof matches
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Reading Passage 1 – A spark, a flint: How fire leapt to life
- preserve
- unaware
- chance
- friction
- rotating
- percussion
- Eskimos
- despite
- F
- D
- E
- C
- G
- A
- C