A. printing, transportation, and telecommunications were not developed
B. means of communication and transportation were not yet invented
D. most people lived in distant towns and villages
Đáp án đúng: A
Giải thích: Dựa vào thông tin: “the longer news took to travel from place to place, and the less news we had of distant people and lands altogether. The printing press obviously changed all that, as did every subsequent development in transportation and telecommunication”
Dịch: thời gian di chuyển tin tức từ nơi này sang nơi khác càng lâu thì chúng ta càng có ít tin tức về những người và vùng đất xa xôi. Báo chí in rõ ràng đã thay đổi tất cả những điều đó, cũng như mọi sự phát triển tiếp theo của ngành giao thông vận tải và viễn thông.
I thought I saw water in the distance but it must have been an optical ___.
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