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2.3. After you have read:

I. Say what is true and what is false. Correct the false statements:

1. Karl Friedrich Benz was born in 1844 in Baden Muehlburg, Germany.

2. He was the son of an engineer.

3. Benz attended the Karlsruhe grammar school and later the Karlsruhe Polytechnic University.

4. In 1881, he founded his first company with partner Emil Jellinek.

5. Karl Benz concentrated all his efforts on creating a reliable gas four-stroke engine.

6. Benz soon patented the speed regulation system, the ignition using white power sparks with battery, the spark plug, the carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, and the water radiator.

7. The success of the company gave Benz the opportunity to indulge in his old passion of designing a electric car.

8. The early-1888 version of the Motorwagen had no wheels and could not move unaided.

9. During the last years of the nineteenth century, Benz was the largest automobile company in the world with 572 units produced in 1899.

10. The name of that DMG model had been selected after the daughter of Karl Benz.

11. A new logo was created, consisting of a three pointed star (representing Daimler's motto: engines for land, air, and water) surrounded by traditional laurels from the Benz logo.

II. Fill in the blanks with words from the text:

1. In 1885, ... , Karl Benz … and … the world's first practical automobile to be powered by an … engine.

2. In 1871, he … his … company with partner August Ritter, the …. a supplier of building materials.

3. The difficulty ... overcome when Benz's ..., Bertha Ringer, .... out Ritter's share in the company using her ... .

4. Despite such ..., Karl Benz ... in the development of new engines in the early factory he and ... owned.

5. Benz ... his ... on December 31, 1878, New Year's Eve, and ... a patent for it in 1879.

6. The name of that DMG model ... after ten-year-old Mercédès Jellinek, the daughter of Emil Jellinek who ... the specifications for the new model.

7. A new logo ..., consisting of a three pointed star (representing Daimler's motto: engines for land, air, and water) ... by traditional laurels from the Benz logo, and the brand of all of its automobiles ... Mercedes Benz.

8. The Benz home now ... as historic and is used as a scientific meeting facility for a ... foundation.

III. Make up 5 general and 5 special questions to the text.

IV. Give the negative and question form of the following sentences:

1. Karl Benz designed and built the world's first practical automobile.

2. In 1871, Benz founded his first company with partner August Ritter.

3. The business's tools were impounded.

4. Bertha Ringer bought out Ritter's share in the company.

5. The Benz's were forced to improvise an association with photographer Emil Bühler.

6. Karl Benz finished his creation in 1885.

7. During the last years of the nineteenth century, Benz was the largest automobile company in the world.

8. Karl Benz was granted a patent for his design of the first flat engine.

9. This design is still used by Porsche and Subaru.

10. Karl Benz was a member of the new Daimler Benz board of management for the remainder of his life.

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