“Free At Last!

” by Michael Stutz. Reading Comprehension (8th Form) http://linguana.com.ua/vchytelyam/olympiads-olimpiady/free-at-last-by-michael-stutz-reading-comprehension-8th-form.html Directions: In this Test you will read a text. The text is followed by 5 tasks. You should do the tasks following a text on the basis of what is stated or implied in that text. For each task you will choose the best possible answer from four possible answers (A, B, C, or D). Choose the best answer and mark the letter of your choice.
Text: From “Free At Last!” by Michael Stutz.
Glossary:
◾caveat – клопотання, застереження, попередження
Move over Coke (and Pepsi), there’s a new player in the cola wars. Meet OpenCola. Okay, that may be a bit of an overstatement, but the new soft drink is different from others in one key respect: It’s the world’s first “open-source” consumer product, writes Graham Lawton in the British magazine New Scientist (Feb. 2, 2002). While Coca-Cola and Pepsi guard their secret formulas, the makers of OpenCola give their recipe away on their Web site. Not only that, they encourage people to make the stuff at home, and to modify and improve the recipe at will. There’s one caveat: The modified formulas must also be freely available to the public. Why? Because... http://linguana.com.ua/vchytelyam/olympiads-olimpiady/free-at-last-by-michael-stutz-reading-comprehension-8th-form.html