Palekh

19. Palekh is a small settlement in Russia, but it is known to any Russian person. Palekh __________ (BE) famous for its traditions of painting for a long time.

20. You can still see some really old icons and murals of Palekh, but what __________ (MAKE) Palekh really famous was the Palekh miniature.

21. Around 1923, the Palekh masters of iconography began to paint papier-maché boxes __________ (USE) the same principles they had learned from painting icons. Such boxes have become popular souvenirs.

QR codes

22. QR codes are everywhere. It’s hard to find a person who __________ (NOT SEE) QR codes yet. They are very convenient and enable us anything from scanning product labels to accessing event information.

23. The QR code system __________ (INVENT) in 1994 by replacing individually scanned bar code labels on each box with a single label that contained the data of each label.

24. The inventor of QR codes, Masahiro Hara, __________ (GET) the idea from a board game Go where there are black and white counters on the game board.

Грамматика и Лексика

Palekh, QR codes (19-24)