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1 Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow it. 9

Students tend to lose their pencils, break them without thinking, and find all sorts of non-writing

uses for them. The pencil in your hand is one of the most remarkable and useful tools in the world. A

man named Friedrich Staedtler invented the modern “lead” pencil in about 1622 in Germany. He

was the first person to mass produce them. Staedtler did not use lead, and there is no lead in your

pencil. However, some pencils did use lead until the early twentieth century. Lead will make a mark,

but it is toxic and not safe to use either in the hands or around the face and mouth where many

pencils sometimes stray. Staedtler used black graphite, a soft form of carbon. Graphite is still used

today. It is mixed with clay and wax and heated to high temperatures. The modern pencil is a superb

piece of technology. The pencil is less messy than ink, can be easily erased, and makes clear, dark,

smooth, and smudge free lines. The modern pencil can produce a continuous line twenty-two miles

long. That’s a distance of 116,160 foot-long rulers laid end to end. Enjoy your pencil. For a few cents

each, it is a remarkable bargain.

a) Mention three improper ways in which students make use of pencils 3

b) Lead is rarely used to make pencils. Why so? 1

c) Of what material are pencils made of? 1

d) Why can we consider the modern pencil to be a superb piece of technology? 1

e) The modern pencil can produce something fantastic. What is


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