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70. - TUYỂN TẬP 1 SỐ ĐỀ THI TỐT NGHIỆP VÀ ĐH MÔN TIẾNG ANH
Tiếng Anh TUYỂN TẬP 1 SỐ ĐỀ THI TỐT NGHIỆP VÀ ĐH MÔN TIẾNG ANH
70. A. or B. so C. although D. becausePart 3. Read the following passage and choose the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer toeach question.Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classicaland medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant readingaloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace.One should be wary, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because readingaloud was a distraction to others. Examinations of factors related to the historical development of silentreading have revealed that it became the usual mode of reading for most adults mainly because the tasksthemselves changed in character.The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers. As thenumber of readers increased, the number of potential listeners declined and thus there was some reductionin the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishingof reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, wherereading aloud would cause distraction to other readers.Towards the end of the century, there was still considerable argument over whether books should beused for information or treated respectfully and over whether the reading of materials such as newspaperswas in some way mentally weakening. Indeed, this argument remains with us still in education. However,whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media onthe one hand and by books and periodicals for a specialised readership on the other.By the end of the twentieth century, students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to booksand to use reading skills which were inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader. The social,cultural and technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term “reading” implied.