Câu 11. A. suited B. appropriate C. likely D. goodV. Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate thecorrect answer to each of the questions.
Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than
speech. A little thought will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language. Human beings
have been writing at least 5,000 years, but they have been talking for much longer, doubtless ever since there
have been human beings. When writing developed, it was derived from and represented speech, although
imperfectly. Even today, there are spoken languages that have no written form. Furthermore, we all learn to
talk well before we learn to write; any child who is not severely handicapped physically or mentally will
learn to talk: a normal man cannot be prevented from doing so. On the other hand, it takes a special effort to
learn to write; in the past, many intelligent and useful members of society did not acquire the skill, and even
today many who speak languages with writing systems never learn to read or write while some who learn the
rudiments of those skills do so imperfectly.
To affirm the primacy of speech over writing is not to disparage the later. One advantage writing has
over speech is that it is more permanent and makes possible the records that any civilization must have. Thus,
if speaking makes us human, writing makes us civilized.
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