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 from 31 to 35.
Early writing and Alphabets
When people first began to write, they did not use an alphabet. Instead, they drew small pictures to (31) _______ the objects they were writing about. This was very slow because there was a different picture for any word.
The Ancient Egyptians had a system of picture writing that was described hieroglyphics. The meaning of this writing was forgotten for a very long time but in 1799 some scientists (32) _______ a stone near Alexandria, in Egypt. The stone had been there for (33) _______ a thousand years. It had both Greek and hieroglyphics on it and researchers were finally able to understand what the hieroglyphics meant.
An alphabet is quite different from picture writing. It (34) _______ of letters or symbols that represent a sound and each sound is just part of one word. The Phoenicians, who lived about 3,000 years ago, developed the modern alphabets. It was later improved by the Roman’s and this alphabet is now used (35) _______ throughout the world.
Điền câu 32
A. discovered
B. realized
C. delivered
D. invented
Đáp án A
Discover (v): khám phá, phát hiện
Realize (v): nhận ra
Deliver (v): phân phát
Invent (v): phát minh, sáng chế
Dịch: “… Ý nghĩa của bài viết này đã bị lãng quên suốt một thời gian dài nhưng vào năm 1799 một số nhà khoa học đã phát hiện ra một tảng đá gần Alexandria, ở Ai Cập…”