Задание
Прочитай текст. Определи, какие из приведённых утверждений 13–19 соответствуют содержанию текста (1 – True), какие не соответствуют (2 – False) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 – Not stated). Запиши в поле ответа цифру 1, 2 или 3, соответствующую выбранному варианту ответа.
Hedy Lamarr
Hedy Lamarr's name at birth was Hedwig Eva Kiesler. She was born in Vienna, Austria on November, 9, 1914. As a child, she was into technology. Hedy often took apart different objects from her house, such as her music box, to see what was inside, and understand how they worked.
When Hedy was 16, director Max Reinhardt found her and offered to study acting under his guidance. Soon she got her first movie role in a German film called Money on the Street. Unfortunately, the start of her career as an actress meant that she could not continue inventing mechanisms like she wanted. Her talent and beauty became more important than her intelligence.
After a short and unlucky marriage, Hedy moved to London in 1937. There, she met a movie-maker from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios. He invited Hedy to take part in several Hollywood movies. The audience was fond of her accent and beauty.
While filming, she met businessman and pilot Howard Hughes, who supported Hedy's love for inventions. He also took her to visit his airplane factories, showed her how the planes were built, and introduced her to the engineers in charge of production. Hedy's creativity went on, and she soon designed a new wing for Hughes' planes. What inspired her, was the animal world: birds and fish. A bit later, she came up with new inventions, such as an upgraded stoplight and a tablet that turned water into a soda.
However, the time of her greatest inventions began in 1940 when Hedy met George Antheil, a composer, pianist and inventor like her. Together, Lamarr and Antheil worked on a new communication system for war purposes. It was designed to guide torpedoes to their target. The system used "frequency hopping" between radio waves, with both the transmitter and the receiver hopping to new frequencies together. This prevented the interception of the radio waves, thereby allowing the torpedo to find its intended target. However, the military forces of Britain decided not to use the new system.
While Hedy was widely recognised for her performance on the big screen, she received any recognition for her inventions many years later. Thus, In 1997, the Electronic Frontier Foundation awarded their Pioneer Award to Lamarr and Antheil. Hedy became the first woman in history to receive such a prize.
Following her death in 2000, Hedy was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2014 for her brilliant technology, which led to Hedy Lamarr being known as “the mother of Wi-Fi” and other wireless communications such as GPS and Bluetooth. Though she didn't create them herself, her inventions became a base for further research and experiments.
13.In her childhood, Hedy was interested in the structure of things.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
14. Hedy always dreamt of performing on stage.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
15.Hedy's career in the film industry brought her a lot of money.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
16.One of Hedy's inventions was an automatic pen for left-handed people.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated:
17.British military forces used Hedy and George's communication system.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
18.Hedy was recognised as a great inventor only in her eighties.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated
19.Hedy's inventions helped to create modern technologies such as Wi-Fi.
1) True
2) False
3) Not stated