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03.03.2022 12:08

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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: