Vocabulary test
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Drag & drop: Fill in the missing expression. Use the following words and phrases:
- obsolete
- cutting edge
- R&D
- state-of-the-art
- invent
- patent
- innovation
- breakthrough
- developing
- design
- Did Bell [invent] the telephone, or was it an Italian?
- If you don't get a [patent] for that new design, one of the big firms will steal the idea and mass produce it.
- I want to have another look at the plans for the [design] of the new space shuttle – I think I have some ideas that might help.
- Though [innovation] in racket design and composition has changed the speed of professional tennis, the rules are much the same as they were fifty years ago.
- This firm spends over 300 million dollars a year on our [R&D, research and development]department, but then again, we made over 500 million in profits, didn't we?
- This new [breakthrough] in genetic technology will make it possible to prevent a variety of previously untreatable birth defects and diseases.
- Don't worry, Mrs. Jones, this hospital uses only [state-of-the-art] equipment – everything is modern and as good as money can buy.
- We have been [developing] this product for seven years, and we are finally ready to launch it on the market.
- In the Western world, the automobile has largely made the horse [obsolete] as a mode of transportation.
- This is an absolutely [cutting edge] procedure – no other heart surgeon in the world is performing anything like this at all.