Fill in the Blanks Reading skills B1 - Recent Inventions Online version Task: reading a text about new inventions. Fill in the Blanks Game Put the paragraphs in the correct order. Paragraph D = 1 Paragraph A = ? Paragraph B = ? Paragraph C = ? Paragraph E = ? by Barbara VD 1 Paragraph A = The prototype's image quality isn't good enough to watch a show or movie on it at this point , but the firm says this will improve . " It's also a greener option , " says spokeswoman Kim Terca . " Right now electronics make up a huge percentage of waste . It doesn't make sense to make these glass and metal boxes that get used and then thrown away with all their lead and other toxic and harmful materials . " She adds that an extra benefit is that the moisture used is good for your skin . Paragraph B = " If 4K is the next great thing , then you could divide your screen into four sections and run four real - time football games in full resolution on your 8k television , " Brad Lyons says . " That could be used very well in bars and cafés . Doctors in an operating - room would benefit from using TV equipment that can show very small details that cannot be seen using existing technology . " Paragraph C = Displair is showing a system at the Electronics Show which creates a curtain of air adding tiny water drops . The curtain feels dry to the touch but is thick enough to project an image on to . It's even interactive : built - in cameras and software analyse your hand movements so that you can touch the image and make pictures move , or disappear . Volunteers have been able to use it to play Fruit Ninja ; they were enthusiastically karate chopping the virtual pineapples and bananas in half . Paragraph D = 1 The focus of last year's Electronics Show was smart TVs , but now , the attention is back on the screens themselves . This year , the term to watch is ? 4K' . It means that the horizontal resolution of such screens is about 4 , 000 pixels . Sitting at the back of a room our eyes simply aren't good enough to spot the difference with regular screens , but up close the effect is amazing . You can see great depth without needing other 3D tech . But most of us don't watch TV with our face centimeters away from our screen , so why bother with 4K at all ? Paragraph E = Perhaps more exciting is a product that has just been introduced to the market . Samsung's Transparent Showcase is a glass box big enough to contain a product ? shoes in this case . It lets shopkeepers show video promotions over the front glass panel . At the end of they day , you unplug it , and the glass turns black . " All LCDs are transparent anyway ? they're a piece of glass , " explains Don Hickey of Samsung . " We've just moved the electronics to get them out of the way . "
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