Заполните пропущенные слова 1.there, 2.are, 3.table, 4.is, 5.measurements, 6.groceries, 7.measured, 8.a, 9.gallon, 10.sweets, 11.weighs, 12.pears
Weights and Measures
English weights and measures are very difficult to (1) foreigner.
For general use the smallest weight is 1 ounce (written oz) and there (2) 16 ounces in a pound (written lb). The English buy ___ (3), tobacco and sometimes cigarettes by the ounce while most___
(4) or fruit, such as apples, (5), strawberries, by the pound,
half-pound or quarter-pound.
Fourteen pounds (6) 1 stone. The English always give people’s
weight in stones and pounds. For example, a man (7) 11 stones
9 lbs (not 163 lbs).
112 lbs make up 1 hundredweight (written cwt) and (8) are
20 hundredweights in a ton.
Liquids are (9) in pints, quarts and gallons. There are 2 pints in
a quart and 4 quarts in a (10).
Finally, for length the principal (11) are inches, feet, yards
and miles.
The easiest way to remember them, perhaps, is a little (12)
like this:
