Английский язык (Вариант 8)
Вопрос 41
Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have 1.5 minutes to read the text silently, then be ready to read it out aloud. You will not have more than 1.5 minutes to read it.
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The idea of storing food in tin cans was developed in England in the early 19th century. A British merchant named Peter Durand is responsible for this idea. The main market for canned food at that time was the British Army and Royal Navy, but it is known, that Queen Charlotte, wife of King George III, first tried and enjoyed canned beef in 1813. It is interesting that no one invented a can opener until fifty years later. For a long time, British soldiers tore open canned food with pocket knives. They were even known to shoot the cans open. The can opener that we use today was invented about 1870. It had a cutting wheel that rotated around the can’s edge. It was immediately popular and it has been changed only once. In another 55 years, a special wheel was added. This was called the “feed wheel” and it made the can rotate against the cutting wheel. |