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Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
THE HOSTORY OF WRITING
The development of writing (30) _________ a huge difference to the world and might see it as the beginning of the media. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China (31) _________ date from around 4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of "picture writing" developed in the area around Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), where the ancient Sumerian civilization was based, from around 3300 BC onwards. However, the first (32) _________ alphabet was used by the Phoenicians around 1050 BC. Their alphabet had 22 letters and it is estimated that it lasted for 1000 years. The first two signs were called "aleph" and "beth", which in Greek became "alpha" and "beta", which gave us the modern word "alphabet".
The modern European alphabet is based on the Greek and spead (33) _________ other European countries under the Romans. A number of changes took place as time passed. The Romans added the letter G, and the letter J and V were unknown to people in Shakespeare's time.
If we (34) _________ the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts. The Romans used to write quaesto at the end of a sentence in order to show that it was a Question. They started to write Qo in place of the whole word, and the put the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark "?"
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (30) is...
A. did
B. had
C. made
D. took
THE HOSTORY OF WRITING
The development of writing (30) _________ a huge difference to the world and might see it as the beginning of the media. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China (31) _________ date from around 4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of "picture writing" developed in the area around Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), where the ancient Sumerian civilization was based, from around 3300 BC onwards. However, the first (32) _________ alphabet was used by the Phoenicians around 1050 BC. Their alphabet had 22 letters and it is estimated that it lasted for 1000 years. The first two signs were called "aleph" and "beth", which in Greek became "alpha" and "beta", which gave us the modern word "alphabet".
The modern European alphabet is based on the Greek and spead (33) _________ other European countries under the Romans. A number of changes took place as time passed. The Romans added the letter G, and the letter J and V were unknown to people in Shakespeare's time.
If we (34) _________ the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts. The Romans used to write quaesto at the end of a sentence in order to show that it was a Question. They started to write Qo in place of the whole word, and the put the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark "?"
The word or phrase which best fits the gap (30) is...
A. did
B. had
C. made
D. took
Tạm dịch: The development of writing _________a huge difference to the world: Sự phát triển của việc viết_________một sự khác biệt rất lớn đối với thế giới
Đáp án đúng là C. make a difference: tạo ra một sự khác biệt.
MEMORIZE
difference (n): sự khác biệt
differentiate (v)
differentiate between A and B: phân biệt, chỉ rõ sự khác biệt
Đáp án đúng là C. make a difference: tạo ra một sự khác biệt.
MEMORIZE
difference (n): sự khác biệt
differentiate (v)
differentiate between A and B: phân biệt, chỉ rõ sự khác biệt
Đáp án C.