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Mobile phones
On New Year’s Day, 1985, Michael Harrison phoned his father, Sir Ernest, to wish him a happy new year. Sir Ernest was chairman of Racal Electronics, the owner of Vodafone, A .
At the time, mobile phones weighed almost a kilogram, cost several thousand pounds and provided only 20 minutes talktime. The networks themselves were small; Vodafone had just a dozen masts covering London. Nobody had any idea of the huge potential of wireless communication and the dramatic impact B .
Hardly anyone believed there would come a day when mobile phones were so popular C . But in 1999 one mobile phone was sold in the UK every four seconds, and by 2004 there were more mobile phones in the UK than people. The boom was a result of increased competition which pushed prices lower and created innovations in the way that mobiles were sold.
When the government introduced more competition, companies started cutting prices to attract more customers. Cellnet, for example, changed its prices, D . It also introduced local call tariffs.
The way that handsets themselves were marketed was also changing and it was Finland’s Nokia who made E . In the late 1990s Nokia realized that the mobile phone was a fashion item: so it offered interchangeable covers which allowed you to customize and personalize your handset.
The mobile phone industry has spent the later part of the past decade reducing its monthly charge F , which has culminated in the fight between the iPhone and a succession of touch screen rivals.
1. trying to persuade people to do more with their phones than just call and text
2. that there would be more phones in the UK than there are people
3. and relying instead on actual call charges
4. that mobile phones would have over the next quarter century
5. the leap from phones as technology to phones as fashion items
6. and his son was making the first-ever mobile phone call in the UK
7. the move to digital technology, connecting machines to wireless networks
Пропуск A B C D E F
Часть предложения
They were seated in honorable places, gave them the best plates and a box containing a fork, a knife and a spoon made of pure gold. When all the guests were already at the table, the eighth sorceress came. She was not invited to the celebration, as they thought that she was no longer in this world. For her, the best plates were immediately brought, but she did not have the golden box.
Naturally, this very much offended the old sorceress. She murmured something unpleasant out loud. One sorceress heard this and hid in the children's room. She decided to tell her last wish. The moment came when the fairies were supposed to give the newborn presents.
The fairies presented it with various gifts: beauty, intelligence, kind heart, good voice, the ability to dance and play on different instruments. However, the old witch wished the princess died when she pricked with a spindle. Everyone shuddered, but the last fairy promised that the princess would not die. She will make sure that the princess will sleep until the prince wakes her up. Her dream will last a hundred years.
The king ordered to remove all the spindles from the castle, but after a while the princess still pricked her finger and fell asleep. The good sorceress did so that everyone in the palace, including the king and the queen, fell asleep.
A hundred years later, the prince went hunting. He saw the old palace, and began to ask passers-by about him. One person told him a story about a sleeping princess. The heart in the prince's chest caught fire, and he hurried to the gate of the old castle. When he entered the castle, he saw a lot of sleeping people. He entered the luxurious room and saw a sleeping princess on the bed. Gold seemed dim, compared with the beauty of the princess.
The prince knelt before the princess, and she woke up. The castle rustled and the rest of the inhabitants of the house woke up.
The bride and groom were invited to the dining room. They were served dishes of old cuisine, and musicians played songs of the past.
The fairy tale once again proves that good conquers evil, and love is able to resist any evil deeds.