1.George Bissel a young lawyer in 1853. Выберите один ответ:
a. was
b. were
c. be
d. is

2.He Pennsylvania and how people got oil.
Выберите один ответ:
a. visit, see
b. visits, sees
c. have visited, have seen
d. visited, saw

3.They blankets in seep oil and then the oil into barrels.
Выберите один ответ:
a. puts, drains
b. puted, drained
c. put, drained
d. put, drain

4.They the oil as a medicine.
Выберите один ответ:
a. have used
b. used
c. uses
d. use

5.He some oil to a chemist called Silliman.
Выберите один ответ:
a. taken
b. took
c. takes
d. take
6.Silliman the oil and that it could be very useful.
Выберите один ответ:
a. analyse, say
b. analysed, said
c. analysed, sayed
d. has analysed, has said

7.Around this time, Bissel some pictures of people drilling for salt and he the idea to drill for oil.
Выберите один ответ:
a. saw, had
b. has seen, has had
c. seen, had
d. saw, haved

8.He a lot of money in the region and very successful.
Выберите один ответ:
a. invest, become
b. invested, became
c. invest, becomed
d. has invested, has become

9.In which country did drilling first develop?
Выберите один ответ:
a. China
b. The USA
c. Canada
d. The UK

10.What was the first drilling technique developed?
Выберите один ответ:
a. Rotary Drilling Technique
b. Hydraulic Drilling
c. The Spring Pole Thechnique
d. Cable Tool Drilling with Derrick

11. What kind of drill bit was used to create the initial large diameter hole at the wellhead?
Выберите один ответ:
a. Sichuan Drilling Bit
b. Chinese Rotary Bit
c. Fish Tail Bit
d. Fish Tale Bit

12.For what purpose was the spring pole technique used in the USA?
Выберите один ответ:
a. It was used only by the Chinese, the Americans didn't know anything about it.
b. It was used to extract kerosene.
c. It was used to get brine to extract salt.
d. It was widely used to extract crude oil.

13.When were stem engines introduced to power drilling rigs?
Выберите один ответ:
a. In 1859
b. In 1902
c. In 1860
d. In 1865

14.What does a rotary drilling introduce?
Выберите один ответ:
a. It introduces the hollow drill pipe that enables cuttings to be washed out of the borehole while the rotating drill cuts deeper.
b. it introduces a rotary mechanism designed by the ancient Egyptians.
c. It introduces a drilling mechanism designed by Leonardo Di Vinci in 1500.
d. It introduces the repetitive lift and drop of heavy cable-tool bits by applying downward pressure.

15. Abraham Gessner, a Canadian inventor, discovered how to make kerosene from .
Выберите один ответ:
a. whale oil
b. vegetable oil
c. crude petroleum
d. brine

16.In the 1860s kerosene used to cost .
Выберите один ответ:
a. about eighteen dollars a month
b. about ten dollars a month
c. about fifty dollars a month
d. about ten dollars a year

17.Petroleum is formed when living things die and decay and are .
Выберите один ответ:
a. converted to carbon-based minerals
b. influenced by carbon minerals
c. influenced by heat and pressure
d. influenced by sea water

18.What / people / use oil for?

19.What / Silliman / say about the oil?

20.Where / Bissel / get the idea to drill for oil?