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enThe First Ice-Cream Cone: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
Most ice-cream cones end the same way, (1) _________sweetly on the tongue. But how did the fist ice-cream cone begin? Tales of the cone’s invention (2) _________on one spot: the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, Missouri. In one story, an ice-cream vendor ran out of serving dishes and was rescued by Ernest Hamwi, a Syrian immigrant selling Middle Eastern waffles at the next stand. Another Syrian immigrant claimed it was his idea (3) _________a hot waffle, let it harden, then plop in the ice-cream. Yet a third claimant was former(4) _________acrobat Charles Menches, who is said (5) _________away one side of an ice-cream sandwich to make an(6) _________vase for flowers, then molded the other side to hold the remaining ice cream. Hamwi and Menches went on to create ice-cream-cone empires.
One earlier claim gets lost in the hubbub: Five months before the World’s Fair, a patent (7) _________to candy-maker Italo Marchiony: "I claim as my invention ... a molding apparatus for creating ice-cream cups and the like." If only he (8) _________cones.
| A | B | C | D | |
| 1 | to melt | melting | melt | melted |
| 2 | converges | converge | is converged | converging |
| 3 | rolls | rolling | roll | to roll |
| 4 | circuses | circuses’ | circus | circus’ |
| 5 | to have peeled | to be peeled | to has peeled | to peel |
| 6 | improvised | improvises | improvising | improvise |
| 7 | awarded | is awarded | was awarded | would be awarded |
| 8 | would have said | had said | has said | would say |
1.B; 2.B; 3.D; 4.C; 5.A; 6.A; 7.C; 8.B
