WHAT IS THE BEST TITLE FOR THIS PASSAGE

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.