Задание

Read and choose only false sentences.

What person from history has the greatest effect on our lives today? Recently, a group of many different experts decided it was a man named Johann Gutenberg. He is famous for inventing printing, but he did not really invent it. He invented a better way of printing.

For hundreds of years people used blocks of wood to print. They used a knife to cut words in the block of wood. They made the words backward. Then they covered the block with ink and pressed it onto paper. When they pulled the paper from the inky blocks, the words appeared on the paper in the right direction. In Korea and China, people printed with metal type instead of wood. Either way, printing was difficult and very slow. People usually wrote books by hand, so it took several years to make one copy of a book.

Books were very expensive and rare. Only rich people could buy them, and most people could not read. As more people learned to read, books became more popular. People wanted to find a quicker, better, and less-expensive way to print books. One of these people was Johann Gutenberg.

Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany, around 1400. He was an intelligent man, and he was good at working with metal. Gutenberg probably had no idea how people printed in China. His idea was to make a piece of metal type for each letter of the alphabet and use the letters over and over. He could put the type together to make words and arrange the words to make pages. With ink on the type, he could press paper on them to make a page. A "printing press" machine could make hundreds of copies of a single page quickly. After that page, he could rearrange the same letters to make other words and print other pages.

It took Gutenberg a long time to make the type for each letter of the alphabet. When he finished the type, he did not have enough money to make the printing press.He borrowed money from a man named Johann Fust. They became business partners. After many years, Gutenberg's printing press was ready. Gutenberg printed his first book, the Bible, around 1455.

Today people remember Johann Gutenber. The city of Mainz has a statue of him and a museum. His original printing press is in the museum. They print several pages a day to show that it is in good condition. In 1987, part of a Gutenberg Bible sold for $5.3 million.

The original printing press is not in good condition now.

He borrowed money from Johann Fust.

Gutenberg was born in Mainz, Germany.

Gutenberg printed his first book, the Bible, around 1555.

Johann Gutenberg was famous for inventing printing.

He was born around 1500.

He was good at working with paper.

In Korea and China , people printed with metal type instead of wood.

The city of Mainz has a statue of him and a museum.