ROLLS-ROYCE The name Rolls-Royce has been associated with high-quality cars for

ROLLS-ROYCE The name Rolls-Royce has been associated with high-quality cars for over a century. The first Rolls-Royce was produced in 1905, as the result of the (1) .efforts of Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce. Rolls, an upper-class Londoner who was (2) .at Eton and Cambridge University, started a company in 1902 to sell motor-cars. Royce, an engineering genius, (3) .from a working-class background. He began his apprenticeship in a railway workshop at the age of 14, but by the age of 21 he had (4) .up his own engineering business. Royce designed several motor-cars, and his first experimental model (5) .in 1903. (6).after that, Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met (7) .the Rolls-Royce manufacturing firm in 1904. Royce resigned the motor-cars and Rolls sold them. Rolls, who had (8) .himself a reputation as a keen racing motorist, also had a passion for flying. In 1910, at the age of only 33, he sadly (9) .his death in a plane crash in (10) ., he was the first Englishman to die in this way. Royce, however, continued work on their shared dream, and (11) .to develop his first aero-engine in 1915. The Rolls-Royce Merlin aero-engine later powered British fighter aeroplanes in World War II. On Royces death in 1933, the famous Rolls-Royce monogram was changed from red to black as a (12) .of respect for the great man. 1.A connected B mixed C combined D collected 2.A educated B schooled C taught D trained 3.A grew B arrived C came D arose 4.A put B мейд C set D brought 5.A appeared B showed C presented D developed 6.A Early B Shortly C Briefly D Quickly 7.A shaping B forming C building D constructing 8.A earned B awarded C deserved D succeeded 9.A got B knew C found D met 10.A spite B case C order D fact 11.A kept up B went on C got by D saw through 12.A note B message C signal D sign