Ballpoint pens have made life easier for millions of people. At one time ____1____ did not like their students to ____2____ with them. Perhaps it was too easy. Pens can leak and it is ____3____ to spill the ink. And it is hard to write on thin or cheap paper with them.

Ladislao Brio ____4____ for a newspaper in Budapest. He spent all day ____5____ his desk. Day in and day out, he corrected ____6____ of thin, cheap paper with a pen and ink. He often had to stop to ____7____ his pen and it did not write ____8____ on the thin paper. He and his brother George  ____9____ some experiments. They wanted a pen that did not leak, with ink that did not spill. Why not ____10____ a little ball at the end?

Two Englishmen, Henry Martin and Fredrick Miles, liked the ____11____. It was the ____12____of the Second World War. The Air-Forced ____13____ a non-leak, non-spill pen for the men to write with in ____14____. Martin and Miles made and ____15____ many thousands of Biro “writing-sticks” to the Air-Force.

1. ( )A.factories    B.schools     C.shops     D.restaurants

2. ( )A.play      B.write     C.come      D.meet

3. ( )A.easy       B.hard      C.free       D.popular

4. ( )A.left      B.waited     C.looked      D.worked

5. ( )A.on        B.near     C.at       D.in

6. ( )A.mistakes     B.books     C.pages        D.diaries

7. ( )A.mend     B.fill      C.brush        D.change

8. ( )A.well        B.down    C.out        D.up

9. ( )A.kept      B.finished    C.began        D.studied

10. ( )A.find     B.wear     C.grow        D.use

11. ( )A.matter      B.result     C.meaning      D.idea

12. ( )A.day        B.time     C.break       D.year

13. ( )A.bought      B.took      C.needed     D.preferred

14. ( )A.planes      B.ships     C.trains      D.buses

15. ( )A.sold       B.lent     C.moved      D.passed

 

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