A. RAISE B. RISE C. ARISE D. MOVE(61-65). READ THE PASSAGE BELOW C...

60. a. raise

b. rise

c. arise

d. move

(61-65). Read the passage below carefully and choose the correct answer a, b, c or d.

Elektron to Electric

The first discovery of electricity is over 2,600 years old. Does that surprise you? Of

course, there were no lights, telephones, refrigerators, radios, motion pictures, or

television sets that long ago. In fact, all of these modern conveniences are of such recent

development that you might well wonder how electricity could be any older than Thomas

Edison’s development of the first practical electric light bulb in 1879.

The word electricity comes from the Greek word meaning amber, which is elektron. The

fossilized sap of a pine tree, amber looks much like a hard lump of honey. In 600 B.C., a

Greek philosopher named Thales rubbed a piece of amber against his sleeve to shine it.

Much to his interest, he found that the rubbed amber attracted small bits of lint, feathers,

and dried leaves. This property of attraction was a strange characteristic which he thought

only amber had. Today, our word electricity still goes back to Thales’ early discovery

about amber.

More than two thousand years after Thales, an English physician discovered that other

substances also had this characteristic of electricity. From then on, more and more men

added to the knowledge of electricity. They set off the many developments and

discoveries which have brought about our electrical era of today.