Each of your fingertips has many tiny lines. Some of these lines form circles, while the others, arches or loops. If you put ink on your fingers and roll them into paper, you (1) fingerprints. Even when you are very old, your fingerprints will still look (2) the way they do now.
For thousands of years, people have known that no two people have the same fingerprints. Long (3), people used fingerprints instead of signatures as a way of identifying themselves. About a hundred years ago, fingerprinting began to be used as a way to identify people who committed crimes. Today, we can make computers look at the fingerprints of people to identify them.
1. (A) making (B) would make (C) make (D) made
2. (A) very much (B) more like (C) very alike (D) much like
3. (A) before (B) past (C) ago (D) previously
The answers are 1.C 2.A 3.C.
But I can't figure out what's wrong with 1.B 2.B&D 3.A.
:roll:
For thousands of years, people have known that no two people have the same fingerprints. Long (3), people used fingerprints instead of signatures as a way of identifying themselves. About a hundred years ago, fingerprinting began to be used as a way to identify people who committed crimes. Today, we can make computers look at the fingerprints of people to identify them.
1. (A) making (B) would make (C) make (D) made
2. (A) very much (B) more like (C) very alike (D) much like
3. (A) before (B) past (C) ago (D) previously
The answers are 1.C 2.A 3.C.
But I can't figure out what's wrong with 1.B 2.B&D 3.A.
:roll: