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Circles on the Water
Solution to the Problem
Ancient Ancestor
Hidden Menace
Different Explanations
Artificial Eye
Unexpected Invention
Significant Benefits
A. Chocolate chip cookies were actually a mistake! One day in 1903, Ruth Wakefield,
while baking a batch of cookies, noticed she was out of bakers’ chocolate! As a substitute
she broke some semi-sweetened chocolate into small pieces and put them in the dough.
She thought that the chocolate would melt in the dough and the dough would absorb it.
When she opened up the oven, she realized she had invented the tasty treat called choco-
late chip cookies!
B. Computers originally began as calculators. The first calculator was made by Blaise
Pascal. It only had eight buttons, and it could only do addition and subtraction. There
was a set of wheels, and all of the wheels had the numbers zero through nine on them.
The wheels were connected by gears and each turn of one wheel would turn the next
wheel one-tenth of a turn. This machine was completed in 1642 when Blaise was twenty-
one years old.
C. A helicopter has a big advantage over an airplane, especially when people might be
trapped in a tight place like on a mountain, where there is not much space to land, or on
the water. They are also used for rescuing people from burning buildings or from trees
when there are floods. Without the helicopter as a rescue vehicle, many people would
lose their lives because the rescuers would be unable to reach them if they were in a dif-
ficult area.
D. Cars have always caused air pollution. In the past, there was a lot more air pollu-
tion created by cars than there is today. In the future, there will probably be even less.
Two good ways for pursuing the dream of less air pollution are cars that run on solar en-
ergy and cars that run on fuel cells. Solar energy and fuel cells don’t cause pollution be-
cause they do not give off any exhaust.
E. Reporter Rob Spence is planning to have a camera embedded in his eye socket and
become a ‘bionic reporter’. Spence, who lost one of his eyes when he was young, says he
has a prototype in development and that one day the replacement of even healthy eyes
with bionic ones may become commonplace. ‘It seems shocking now, but it will become
more and more normal,’ he said.
F. Crop circles have been appearing in fields all over the world for the past 30 years.
There have been suggestions that they are made by flying saucers landing and flatten-
ing the crops, or even that they are messages left by visiting aliens. Others think they are
created by microwave beams from satellites orbiting the Earth.
Other more rational suggestions are that crop circles are man-made hoaxes, attempt-
ing to convince the public of extra-terrestrial life on Earth.
G. The Egyptian Pyramids have always been surrounded by mystery.
When Egyptologists began to open the tombs of the pharaohs, rumours abounded that
anyone who raided them would be cursed. Many think a curse was to blame for the death
of Lord Carnarvon, who funded the expedition to open King Tutankhamen’s tomb in
- He died of pneumonia after being bitten by a mosquito a few weeks after the tomb
was opened.
