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 below.
Because writing has become so important in our culture, we sometimes think of it as more real than speech. A little thought, however, will show why speech is primary and writing secondary to language. Human beings have been writing (as far as we can tell from surviving evidence) for at least 5000 years; but they have been talking for much longer, doubtless ever since there have been human beings.
When writing did develop, it was derived from and represented speech, although imperfectly. Even today there are spoken languages that have no written form. Furthermore, we all learn to talk well before we learn to write; any human child who is not severely handicapped physically or mentally will learn to talk. a normal human being cannot be prevented from doing so. On the other hand, it takes a special effort to learn to write. In the past many intelligent and useful members of society did not acquire the skill, and even today many who speak languages with writing systems never learn to read or write, while some who learn the rudiments of those skills do so only imperfectly.
To affirm the primacy of speech over writing is not, however, to disparage the latter. One advantage writing has over speech is that it is more permanent and makes possible the records that any civilization must have. Thus, if speaking makes us human, writing makes us civilized.
Which of the following is NOT mentioned about John Harvard?
A. What he died of
B. Where he came from
C. Where he was buried
D. How much he bequeathed to Harvard
Đáp án C
Thông tin nào sau đây không được đề cập về John Harvard?
A. Lý do ông ấy chết
B. Ông ấy đến từ đâu
C. Nơi ông được an táng
D. Ông ấy để lại bao nhiêu cho Harvard
Dẫn chứng: When a young minister named John Harvard, who came from the neighboring town of Charlestown, died from tuberculosis in 1638, he willed half of his estate of 1,700 pounds to the fledgling college. In spite of the fact that only half of the bequest was actually paid, the General Court named the college after the minister in appreciation for what he had done.
Tạm dịch: Khi một bộ trưởng trẻ tuổi tên là John Harvard, người đến từ thị trấn lân cận của Charlestown, chết vì bệnh lao năm 1636, Ngài muốn để lại một nửa tài sản của mình là 1.700 bảng cho trường đại học mới thành lập. Mặc dù thực tế rằng chỉ có một nửa số tiền để lại đó được thực trả, Tổng Tòa án đã đặt tên cho trường đại học đó theo tên vị bộ trưởng trong sự đánh giá cao những gì ông đã làm
Đáp án C