ENTRY TEST 1 mp a AAR DS Part 1 j @ For questions 1-15, read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space. There is an example at the beginning (0). Write your answers in CAPITAL LETTERS on the separate answer sheet. Bample: () MOB MOOOOOOOOOO0000000 CLOCKS ‘The clock is arguably the (0) -- MOST. _ influential invention in the history of technology. How did (1) ____-- --- all start? The sundial used shadows to mark off the hours, but the water clock measured time even on cloudy days. This type of clock was used in China 3,000 years ago, and was also known (2) ~ the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans. Itwas not @) - the 1300s that the forerunner of the modern clock, with wheels, a dial and an hour hand, was invented. (4) -------.-- 1700 a pendulum, a minute hand and a second hand had been added, since (5) ---------- the essential principles of clocks have not changed. (6) ---------- clocks, using only weights and pendulums, were used for hundreds of years, but they had to be placed in an upright position so (7) --...----- to work properly. The discovery (8) spring, which had to (9) ..------- wound regularly, could be used (10) ---- of ‘weights or pendulums meant that clocks (11) .----..... be smaller, and even be carried around. Flectric, atomic and digital clocks, plus clocks with microchips, are the more recent developments. The modem clock (12) _ look different from its more elaborately decorated predecessors, but clocks and watches are still valued (18) ~ only for their practicality but also (14) _... a fashion statement and status symbol. They will, probably be with us for another 3,000 years, at the (15) -------... least