GARRETT A MORGAN
An accident between a car and a horse-drawn carriage turned on a green light in the
mind of one (0)C to it. Why not, thought Garrett A Morgan, design a signal that would
(1)__ the movement of road traffic? (2)__ a result, in February 1927 Morgan produced
the world’s first automatic electric traffic signal.
His invention (3)__ of a pole with two arms that turned round to (4)__ when traffic
should move. The words ‘stop’ and ‘go’ were on different sides of the arms, which
automatically turned and (5)__ the right line of traffic when necessary.
Morgan, who had been (6)__ about road safety because of the (7)__ number of cars
coming on to the roads at the (8)__, sold his invention to the General Electric Company
for $40,000.
Morgan was born in Kentucky in 1877 and (9)__ an elementary education. In 1905 he
began a job (10)__ sewing machines and in 1907 he (11)__ his own shop for this. He
(12)__ on to start a company selling hair treatments and later he invented the ‘safety
hood’, which (13)__ firemen from gas and smoke and (14)__ a prize at a 1914
exhibition.
Morgan died in 1963, just months after being (15)__ by the US government with an
award for inventing the first automatic traffic signal.
0 A observer B viewer C witness D spectator
1 A direct B train C master D rule
2 A With B Being C As D By
3 A composed B combined C constructed D consisted
4 A declare B indicate C sign D inform
5 A aimed B opposed C viewed D faced
6 A tense B restless C excited D concerned
7 A raising B increasing C enlarging D heightening
8 A while B period C time D age
9 A received B attained C gathered D took
10 A remedying B mending C revising D correcting
11 A opened B introduced C installed D formed
12 A took B went C kept D got
13 A covered B prevented C saved D protected
14 A reached B caught C won D succeeded
15 A respected B honoured C approved D valued