WHAT DOES THE AUTHOR IMPLY ABOUT THE BODY BUILDERS HAVING WINGS

Câu 42: What does the author imply about the body builders having wings?

A. If they had wings, their muscles would be strong enough for flight.

B. Their wings would total 15 percent of their body weight.

C. If they flapped their wings, they could fly a little.

D. If they had wings, their hearts would still not be large for flight.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer to each of the questions.

Laws are rules that a society makes to maintain order and keep citizens and their possessions safe. Most

countries have thousands of laws that are enforced by police officers with the help of court systems.

Laws today are based on those of earlier societies. Ancient Egypt had laws in 3000 B.C. They were

based on common sense views of right and wrong. All people were equal under the law. When a person broke

the law, their punishment could be as simple as returning a stolen item or as severe as lashings from a whip.

Sometimes, a person’s entire family could be punished for their crimes.

Later, there was the Code of Hammurabi from the land of Babylon. It was the first written code of law in

history and was created in 1772 B.C. It included 282 laws in total. This is where we get the phrase, “an eye for

an eye” as that was a punishment. There were laws about rewards for returning slaves to owners, laws about

marriage, laws about compensation for theft and loss, and laws about responsibility if a house collapsed.

These laws were originally written on giant stone tablets. Some tablets still exist and are kept in the Louvre

Museum.

Later, the Romans created their first legal text, the Law of the Twelve Tables, in the mid-5th century

B.C. These laws were mostly civil, meaning they were private laws about how citizens interacted. That meant

Romans focused on laws about property and possession. These laws were so well formed that they have

affected lawyers ever since.

Without these ancient examples, our modern laws would be very different. We have many laws today,

and new ones are still being created by governments. Sometimes, governments change past laws as well. In

the early 20th century, the government banned alcohol in the U.S. Later, the government made alcohol legal

and set a drinking age. This is just one example of how laws can be changed.