9th form Inventions / Grammar

The Remote Control

1. After a long day at work or school, many of us come home, jump on the sofa and _____ for the remote control

2. For today's generation it is normal not to have ____ up to cange channels on the televisionor to turn on the music.

3. This ____, however, a relatively recent invention.

4. It was not until 1950 that the first commercial television remote control ____.

5. The Zenith Radio Corporation ____ it the "Lazy Bone".

6. In those days, however, the "Lazy Bone" was not wireless; it ____ to the television by a long cable.

7. This ____ as a danger, as people kept tripping and falling over it.

8. Just five years later, in 1955, the first wireless TV remote control ____ by Eugene Polley and this soon became very popular indeed.

9. Opinions ____ as to whether this invention is necessarilly a good thing.

10. Many believe, we ____ a generation of people who are too lazy to move from the sofa.