1.

Ever since Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler ______ the is taking

automobile back in 1886, automotive design has takes

continued to inspire us. has taken

invents had taken

inventing 7. Enthusiasts ______ the difference between

were inventing authenticity and marketing.

invented can tell

2. The car's purpose ______ to bridge distances and are telling

bring people together. have told

was is telling

is 8. ______ cars built in the U.S. for more than 15 years.

were We are selling

is being We have been selling

3. But the promise of great individual freedom also We want to sell

______ to technological and aesthetic aspirations. We sell

gives rise 9. When ______, a water mist sprayed across the

is giving rise intercooler absorbs additional heat from the intake air for

had given rise increased power and performance.

was giving rise having been activated

4. Good automotive design ______ a decisive factor in activated

the success of an automotive brand. activating

had become activate

having become 10. We are becoming more international, ______ more

has become products, investing in lots of different technologies in lots

was of different areas.

5. ______ a high-performance division is a growing are developing

trend in the car industry. develop

Having started is developing

To start developing

Start

Starting

6. It ______ a century to get to this point, so I think it is

worth looking at how we got here. 1. The scientific history of radium ______ beautiful.
 was are taking

is take

had been takes

is being to take

2. Radium is no more a baby but the conditions of the 7. And in that way it has been proved that the

discovery were somewhat peculiar, and so it is always of radioactive elements are constantly ______ and that

interest ______ them and to explain them. they produce at the end ordinary elements, principally

in remembering helium and lead.

to have remembered them disintegrating

to remember to disintegrate

remember being disintegrating

3. Professor Curie and I worked at that time in the disintegrated

laboratory of the school of Physics and Chemistry where 8. Then I ______ that there should be in the minerals

Professor Curie ______ his lectures. some unknown element having a much greater

is holding radioactivity than uranium or thorium.

was holding am thinking

to hold think

held had thought

4. All the elements ______ such radiation I have termed thought

radioactive. 9. Other radioactive elements ______ since: actinium

emission (Debierne), radiothorium and mesothorium (Hahn),

are emitting ionium (Boltwood), etc.

have emitted were discovered

emitting are discovered

5. I wanted ______ if there were other elements, giving have been discovered

out rays of the same kind. had been discovered

to know 10. In chemical terms radium ______ little from barium.

knowing is different

know differs

am knowing differed

6. If we ______ a practical point of view, then the most is differing

important property of the rays is the production of

physiological effects on the cells of the human organism.