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    Toefl Review Exercise 1-6

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    Carlson was working in the patents department of an electronics firm in the 1930s. He found that copying patents took a long time and cost a lot of money as the only options were using a typist or photographer. He developed the idea for a machine that could copy documents quickly and efficiently, and over three years created the first xerographic copy machine in 1938. Large corporations were not interested in his machine initially, but a small family company later bought the process and grew into the Xerox Corporation, making both the company and Carlson wealthy.

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    Toefl Review Exercise 1-6

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    Carlson was working in the patents department of an electronics firm in the 1930s. He found that copying patents took a long time and cost a lot of money as the only options were using a typist or photographer. He developed the idea for a machine that could copy documents quickly and efficiently, and over three years created the first xerographic copy machine in 1938. Large corporations were not interested in his machine initially, but a small family company later bought the process and grew into the Xerox Corporation, making both the company and Carlson wealthy.

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    Carlson was working in the patents department of an electronics firm in the 1930s. He found that copying patents took a long time and cost a lot of money as the only options were using a typist or photographer. He developed the idea for a machine that could copy documents quickly and efficiently, and over three years created the first xerographic copy machine in 1938. Large corporations were not interested in his machine initially, but a small family company later bought the process and grew into the Xerox Corporation, making both the company and Carlson wealthy.

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    Carlson was working in the patents department of an electronics firm in the 1930s. He found that copying patents took a long time and cost a lot of money as the only options were using a typist or photographer. He developed the idea for a machine that could copy documents quickly and efficiently, and over three years created the first xerographic copy machine in 1938. Large corporations were not interested in his machine initially, but a small family company later bought the process and grew into the Xerox Corporation, making both the company and Carlson wealthy.

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    PASSAGE THREE (Questions 22-31)

    In the 1930s, Chester F. Carlson was working in the patents department of a large
    electronics firm in New York City. One of the major problems in his work was the length of
    time and expense involved in getting patents copied; patents were lengthy legal documents,
    Line and the only ways to get them copied were to take them to a typist or to take them to a
    (5) photographer. Either way of copying patents took a lot of time and cost a lot of money.
    He came up with the idea for a machine that would copy documents quickly and
    efficiently. He researched the idea in the library and then worked over a three-year
    period on developing a machine that used a light, an electrostatically charged plate, and
    powder to duplicate images on paper. The result of t.hiswork was a machine that
    (10) produced the first xerographic copy on October 22, 1938. He named the process
    "Xerox," which means "dry writing."
    Carlson felt that he had a good idea, one that would be extremely helpful in the
    business world. He tried to sell his idea to a number of large corporations, but they were
    not terribly interested in his machine. A few years later he sold the process to a small
    (15) family-owned company. This small company grew into the giant Xerox Corporation, and
    both Carlson and Xerox became rather wealthy in the process.

    22. This passage is mainly about 27. Carlson most likely began work on
    the machine in
    (A) Carlson's job in a patent office
    (B) now the Xerox machine works (A) 1930
    (C) Carlson's success in business (B) 1935
    (D) the development of the Xerox (C) '938
    machine (D) 1941

    23. Which of the following is NOT 28. The passage indicates that the large
    mentioned as a problem that Carlson corporations that Carlson tried to
    encountered in getting patents copied? sell his process to
    (A) The time needed for copying (A) were family owned
    (B) The expense of the copying (B) were nonprofit institutions
    (C) The length of the paten ts (C) helped to develop the process
    (D) Dependability of photographers (D) did not want to buy his machine

    24. The word "expense" in line 3 is 29. The word "giant" in line 15 could
    closest i'n meaning to best be replaced by
    (A) cost (A) monster
    (B) difficulty (B) tiny
    (C) legality (C) familiar
    (D) payment (D) huge

    25. Click on the word in paragraph 2 30. VI'her': in the passage does the
    that is c1os~st in meaning to "looked author indicate what a patent is?
    for information about." (A) Lines 1-2
    (B) Line 3
    26. The following are components of
    Carlson's machine EXCEPT (C) Lines 6-7
    (D) Lines 9-10
    (A) A light
    (B) A charged plate 31. Click on the sentence in paragraph 3
    (C) Powder that describes what happened to the
    (D) A typewriter company that eventually bought
    Carlson's process.

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