The development of silent reading during the last century indicated ______.
A. an increase in the average age of readers
B. an increase in the number of books
C. a change in the nature of reading
D. a change in the status of literate people
Thông tin: Examinations of factors related to the historical development of silent reading have revealed that it became the usual mode of reading for most adults mainly because the tasks themselves changed in character. (Việc kiểm tra các yếu tố liên quan đến sự phát triển lịch sử của việc đọc thầm đã tiết lộ rằng nó trở thành phương thức đọc thông thường đối với hầu hết người lớn chủ yếu là do bản thân các nhiệm vụ đã thay đổi về đặc điểm.)
Chọn C
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Since rats are destructive and may carry diseases, therefore many cities try to exterminate them.
He graduated with doctorates of _______ and surgery from Florence, gaining the highest honors that year.
Find the mistake
We shouldn't make an appointment with this doctor. You can see him whenever you want.
Sửa lỗi sai: Please turn off your television. I also like watching TV but now I am having to study for the exam.
Complete the following passage by choosing A, B, C or D to fill in each blank.
Recent research has (1)____ that a third of people in Britain have not met their (2)____neighbors, and those who know each other (3) _____ speak. Neighbors gossiping over garden fences and in the street was a common (4)_____ in the 1950s, says Dr Carl Chinn, an expert on local communities. Now, however, longer hours spent working at the office, together with the Internet and satellite television, are eroding neighborhood (5)_____ . "Poor neighborhoods once had strong kinship, but now prosperity buys privacy," said Chinn.Professor John Locke, a social scientist at Cambridge University, has analyzed a large (6)_____ of surveys. He found that in America and Britain the amount of time spent in social activity is decreasing. A third of people said they never spoke to their neighbors at (7)_____. Andrew Mayer, 25, a strategy consultant, rents a large apartment in West London, with two flat mates, who work in e – commerce. "We have a family of teachers upstairs and lawyers below, but our contact comes via letters (8)_____ to the communal facilities or complaints that we've not put out our bin bags properly," said Mayer. The (9)_____ of communities can have serious effects. Concerned at the rise in burglaries and (10)_____ of vandalism, the police have relaunched crime prevention schemes such as Neighborhood Watch, call on people who live in the same are to keep an eye on each others' houses and report everything they see which is unusual.
Such … the play that the theater is likely to be full every night.
To absorb more oil from spring rolls, we can use materials like _____ newspaper to wrap them after frying.
Politicians should never lose________of the needs of the people they represent.
The first time I tried out my new bike I _________ balanced and fell off.