Vocabulary

Which sentences have the same meaning as the sentences from the reading? Circle the letter of the correct answer.

1. Ford went to work as a mechanic.

1. Ford fixed cars.

2. Ford sold cars.

2. He wanted to build a car that many people could afford.

1. He wanted to build a car many people would have enough money to buy.

2. He wanted to build a car people would be able to sell easily.

3. He could charge less money for a car.

1. He could ask people to use a credit card.

2. He could ask people to pay less money.

4. Ford saw beef carcasses at the factory.

1. Ford saw animals in boxes at the factory.

2. Ford saw the bodies of dead animals at the factory.

5. Ford realized that he could use this assembly line method to build cars.

1. Ford understood that the assembly line was a good way to build cars.

2. Ford invented the assembly line equipment to build cars.

Comprehension

A. Looking for Main Ideas

Circle the letter of the best answer.

1. Henry Ford built ________ .

1. the first car

2. the first bicycle

3. a car with bicycle wheels

2. Henry Ford's dream was ________ .

1. to build an assembly line

2. to build a car most people could afford

3. to build a car that would win a race

3. Ford first saw an assembly line _______ .

1. at a meat-packing factory

2. on a farm

3. at the Ford Motor Company

B. Looking for Details

Circle Т if the sentence is true. Circle F if the sentence is false.

1. Henry Ford left school when he was sixteen T F

2. Henry Ford made bicycle wheels on the farm. T F

3. Ford built a car that went seventy miles per hour. T F

4. Only very poor people bought cars. T F

5. The 1908 Model T cost more than most people could pay. T F

6.Before the assembly line it took fourteen hours to build two cars.T F

7. Ford dropped the price of the Model T by $585. T F

Alexander graham bell

Alexander Graham Bell was born in 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father was an expert in phonetics, the study of the sounds of lan­guages. As a boy, Alexander became in­terested in sounds and speech.

In 1870 the Bells decided to emigrate to America. They lived in Boston, where Al­exander taught in a school for the deaf. There he began experimenting with a machine to help the deaf hear. While ex­perimenting with this machine. Bell had an idea. Why not use electricity to send the human voice from one place to an­other? Bell began work on a new invention.

For years Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson, worked day and night. They rent­ed rooms in a boardinghouse. Bell was on one floor, and Watson was on anoth­er. They tried to send speech through a wire. Finally, on March 19, 1876, Watson heard these words very clearly: "Mr. Watson, come here. I want you." Watson rushed upstairs, ran into Bell's room, and shouted, "I heard you!" That year was the centennial, or 100th birthday, of the United States. There was a large fair in Philadelphia, called the Centennial Exposition. One of the main attractions at the exposition was Bell's "talking machine." Thousands of visitors, in­cluding Don Pedro, the emperor of Brazil, were surprised when they saw – and heard – this invention. But they still thought it was just an interesting toy. They didn't know that one day this talking machine would become the telephone and would change people's lives.