Media. TEST 8th form

Read the text and choose the right word

The television

The invention with the biggest impact 1) _____ probably the television. It was invented 2)____ a Scottish man, John Logie Baird. The first televised pictures 3)____sent over a short distance in 1924, and his invention was formally demonstrated at the Royal Institute two years later. The pictures on the screen 4)______not clear, but the viewers could see that they were human faces, and they could see their eyes opening and closing. In 1928, images were sent from Britain to America, and later, to a ship 1,500 miles out to sea. In the same year, the first colour images were sent. The first ‘seeing-in sets’ were 5) _____ that same year. For £25 (£1000 in today’s money), people in their homes could watch moving images that were sent from a broadcasting station.

The invention with the biggest impact 1) _____ probably the television. It was invented 2)____ a Scottish man, John Logie Baird. The first televised pictures 3)____ sent over a short distance in 1924, and his invention was formally demonstrated at the Royal Institute two years later. The pictures on the screen 4)____ not clear, but the viewers could see that they were human faces, and they could see their eyes opening and closing. In 1928, images were sent from Britain to America, and later, to a ship 1,500 miles out to sea. In the same year, the first colour images were sent. The first ‘seeing-in sets’ were 5)_____ that same year. For £25 (£1000 in today’s money), people in their homes could watch moving images that were sent from a broadcasting station.

The invention with the biggest impact 1) _____ probably the television. It was invented 2) _____ a Scottish man, John Logie Baird. The first televised pictures 3) ____sent over a short distance in 1924, and his invention was formally demonstrated at the Royal Institute two years later. The pictures on the screen 4)_____ not clear, but the viewers could see that they were human faces, and they could see their eyes opening and closing. In 1928, images were sent from Britain to America, and later, to a ship 1,500 miles out to sea. In the same year, the first colour images were sent. The first ‘seeing-in sets’ were 5)______ that same year. For £25 (£1000 in today’s money), people in their homes could watch moving images that were sent from a broadcasting station.

The invention with the biggest impact 1) _____ probably the television. It was invented 2) _____ a Scottish man, John Logie Baird. The first televised pictures 3) ____sent over a short distance in 1924, and his invention was formally demonstrated at the Royal Institute two years later. The pictures on the screen 4) _____ not clear, but the viewers could see that they were human faces, and they could see their eyes opening and closing. In 1928, images were sent from Britain to America, and later, to a ship 1,500 miles out to sea. In the same year, the first colour images were sent. The first ‘seeing-in sets’ were 5)____ that same year. For £25 (£1000 in today’s money), people in their homes could watch moving images that were sent from a broadcasting station.

The invention with the biggest impact 1)_____ probably the television. It was invented 2) _____ a Scottish man, John Logie Baird. The first televised pictures 3) ____sent over a short distance in 1924, and his invention was formally demonstrated at the Royal Institute two years later. The pictures on the screen 4) _____ not clear, but the viewers could see that they were human faces, and they could see their eyes opening and closing. In 1928, images were sent from Britain to America, and later, to a ship 1,500 miles out to sea. In the same year, the first colour images were sent. The first ‘seeing-in sets’ were 5) _____ that same year. For £25 (£1000 in today’s money), people in their homes could watch moving images that were sent from a broadcasting station.

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