_____ 2/ _____ 3/ _____ 4/ _____ 5/ _____ 6/ _____ (23-28) CHOOSE THE WORD OR PHRASE THAT BEST FITS THE BLANK SPACE IN THE FOLLOWING PASSAGE

1/ _____ 2/ _____ 3/ _____ 4/ _____ 5/ _____ 6/ _____

(23-28) Choose the word or phrase that best fits the blank space in the following passage:

The Word “telephone” means hearing the (23)___________ produced at the distance, just as

we see distant objects through a “ telescope” or we see things happening miles away through “

television”. The telephone was(24) ________ more than one hundred years ago by Alexander

Graham Bell, and an America. It is now very extensively used everywhere. In Viet Nam, most of

the people have their own telephone in their homes. It makes us possible to talk to our friends far

away without all the way to their homes.

In actually working it appears to be (25) ___________ . It has a transmitter into which you

speak and a receiver at which you hear, and these two are now (26) ________ in the same small

instrument, one at each end. The two persons who want to speak have each an instrument. Thereis a

(27) _________ wire and electric battery by the side of each, or there (28) __________ a common

connecting station. It is the electric current that enables the sound vibrations to be produced at the

other end, and the person at the end hears the talk of his friend .