Elevator Mystety

Needing a lot of hard, physical effort and making you feel extremely tired.

• creative

• backbreaking

• faulty

• irritating

What exaggeration does Bradley make?

• Taking the stairs might result in a heart attack.

• Nagging is an effective way to get help from someone.

• He has difficulty breathing because he ran up four flights of stairs.

• Intensive labor tired out the king's servants.

What is Courtney's opinion about laziness?

• Lazy people often exaggerate their fatigue.

• Laziness cannot be attributed to inventions.

• Laziness can be a motivator for inventiveness.

• Lazy people would never walk up a flight of stairs.

What is TRUE about the first passenger elevator?

• Otis's sons constructed it according to their father's plans.

• The elevator didn't rely on laborers for its operation.

• Modern elevators adopted its brake system design.

• The device was invented for one particular person.

Why does Bradley want to become an elevator engineer?

• He would be able to secure a high income in that profession.

• He would be assured of always having an elevator to ride.

• He may win the contest held by Otis Elevator Company.

• He would like to copy the Otis business model.

To encourage someone to do something or something to happen.

• trigger

• spur

• doubt

• steam

To keep asking someone to do something or to repeatedly remind sb to do sth.

• trigger

• lazy

• unveil

• nag

an event or situation, etc. that causes something to start

• trigger

• distress

• faulty

• irritate