54. What is the best title for this passage ?
A. Atlantis B. Searches of scientists
C. the Search of a Lost continent D. Legend of Atlantis.
Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct word for
each of the blanks from 55 to 64.
The education of deaf people has a long history. Some educators preferred to teach
sign language, a method of communicating with one's hands. While others emphasized to
teach the deaf to speak.
The first known teacher of the deaf was Pedro Ponce De Leon, a Benedictine monk,
who ( 5 5 ) ________ children of the nobility in the 1570s. He had some success in teaching
deaf children to speak and write. A former pupil of his indicated that Ponce de Leon used
both a (56) ________ Alphabet and oral methods.
France was one of the leaders in education of the deaf. There, around 1600, Juan
Bonet and Manuel Ramirez de carrion worked with a young child who had lost his hearing.
Bonet later wrote and published the first book (57) ________ teaching the deaf. Bonet
taught his pupil a signed alphabet that is very (58)________ the one used today in the
United States. In 1775 in Paris, Abbe Charles Michel de I'Epee founded a free school for
deaf pupils that taught sign language. Over the school for deaf people that taught sign
language. Over the next several decades, this school's method of teaching students sign
language became famous (59)______ the "French method".
In America, the first school for deaf students was not founded (60)
________April 15, 1817, probably because that was when an American city had a
concentration of people large enough to (61) ________ a permanent institution. Thomas
Gallaudet founded this first school, the American Asylum for the education of the
Deaf and Dumb, (62) _______ in Hartford, Connecticut, and now called the American
School for the Deaf. Gallaudet hired a deaf French man, Laurent Clerc, to teach at his
school. Clerc (63) _______ the sign language system used in the school, and trained
many of the first teachers in his techniques. Hence Clerc was one of the most influential
educator in early American deaf education.
In 1857, Edward Minor Gallaudet, a son of Thomas Gallaudet, became principal of the
Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Washington, D.C, which eventually became
Gallaudet College, the only (64)_________ arts institution for the deaf. Edward
Gallaudet advocated a combination of oral and manual methods of deaf education.
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