Use Of English: Test D

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Use Of English: Test D

Traffic Lights

The first traffic signal was invented by a railway signaling engineer. It was installed __(1)__ the Houses of Parliament in 1868. It __(2)__ like any railway signal of the time, and was operated by gas. __(3)__, it exploded and killed a policeman, and the accident __(4)__ further development until cars became common.

__(5)__ traffic lights are an American invention. Red-green __(6)__ were installed in Cleveland in 1914. Three-color signals, operated __(7)__ hand from a tower in the __(8)__ of the street, were installed in New York in 1918. The __(9)__ lights of this type to __(10)__ in Britain were in London, on the junction between St. James’s Street and Piccadilly, in 1925. Automatic signals were installed __(11)__ year later.

In the past, traffic lights were __(12)__. In New York, some lights had a statue on top. In Los Angeles the lights did not just __(13)__ silently, but would ring bells to __(14)__ the sleeping motorists of the 1930s. These are gone and have been __(15)__ by standard models which are universally adopted.

- A) outside
- B) out
- C) out of
- D) outdoors
- A) resembled
- B) looked
- C) showed
- D) seemed
- A) However
- B) Therefore
- C) Although
- D) Despite
- A) forbade
- B) disappointed
- C) avoided
- D) discouraged
- A) New
- B) Recent
- C) Modern
- D) Late
- A) methods
- B) ways
- C) systems
- D) means
- A) by
- B) with
- C) through
- D) in
- A) middle
- B) heart
- C) focus
- D) halfway
- A) original
- B) primary
- C) first
- D) early
- A) show
- B) appear
- C) happen
- D) become
- A) a
- B) in the
- C) in a
- D) the
- A) various
- B) particular
- C) rare
- D) special
- A) change
- B) alter
- C) vary
- D) move
- A) rise
- B) raise
- C) wake
- D) get up
- A) reproduced
- B) replaced
- C) removed
- D) remained

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