Simon 128 IELTS
reading exercises
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It was once assumed that improvements in telecommunications would lead to more
dispersal in the population as people were no longer forced into cities. However, the ISTP
team's research demonstrates that the population and job density of cities rose or remained
constant in the 1980s after decades of decline. The explanation for this seems to be that it
is valuable to place people working in related fields together. 'The new world will largely
depend on human creativity, and creativity flourishes where people come together face-to-
face.'
Exercise 29
IELTS Reading: choose the title
Read the following passage.
The cinematograph is a motion picture film camera which also serves as a film projector
and developer. It was invented in the 1890s, but there is much dispute as to the identity of
its inventor.
Some argue that the device was first invented and patented as "Cinématographe Léon
Bouly" by French inventor Léon Bouly on February 12, 1892. Bouly coined the term
“cinematograph”, which translates in Greek to “writing in movement”. It is said that Bouly
was not able to pay the rent for his patent the following year, and that the brothers Auguste
and Louis Lumière bought the licence.
A more popular version of events is that Louis Lumière was the first to conceptualise the
idea. The Lumière brothers shared the patent, and they made their first film, Sortie de
l'usine Lumière de Lyon, in 1894.
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