Reading Practice. Read through text 3 (Natural Stone: Far More Than Just Another Building Material) and then choose the best sentence given below to fill in each of the

Read through text 3 ( Natural Stone: Far More Than Just Another Building Material ) and then choose the best sentence given below to fill in each of the blanks.

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Text 3. NATURAL STONE: FAR MORE THAN JUST ANOTHER BUILDING MATERIAL

Natural stone has been used for every function imaginable, from weapon to a bartering currency. ___1___ The various ways it can be installed in a project are limited only by the creative imagination of the designer and technical understanding of the installer.

Each mason’s workmanship is unlike that of another, and each mason’s project is unlike his last. ___2____The project can be structural, aesthetic, or both. The effect can be powerful or subtle and, yet, ever changing with the mood of the day or season.

Each different kind of stone has its own unique graining. ___3____ The rift will run perpendicularly to the bedding grain of a sedimentary stone. The stone cutter would need to identify the rift in order to successfully cut the stone. This is one example of the knowledge a stone cutter would need.

The master stone cutters who worked the quarries in the United States’ early years are a reflection of the different cultures that helped settle America. Master stone cutters have come from Sweden, Germany, Italy and Ireland, to name a few. ___4____

The many different availabilities of texture, color, hardness and a workable nature of natural stone lend to an ability to express any desired outcome. The abundant choices in appearance and uses of natural stone, coupled with the abounding skills of the mason and creative genius of an architect or designer, present possibilities that no other medium could. ___5____.

The increased availability of natural stone is due mostly to the innovations of stone processing equipment and tooling. ___6____. Improved methods for quarrying and new ways of processing all of the stone removed from the ground can result in greater profit for the quarries and a greener product than any imitations.

____7____. It has a history of use that is part of the human race. The stone industry has been able to take advantage of technological advances that improve yield and offer more options. Natural stone is a gracious compliment to any modern setting.

a) Most all stones have a graining referred to as the “rift.”

b) Stone also is timeless.

c) Stone is far more than just another building material.

d) The use of natural stone is as much about people and cultures as it is about the material.

e) These abounding options give natural stone an opportunity to communicate any desired result.

f) These advancements have increased production, lowered costs and made available new products

g) This is one of the remarkable aspects of natural stone.

Read text 4 divided into parts. Find answers to the questions which come before each of the coming passages.

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