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 from 29 to 35.
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.
We sometimes think of writing as more real than speech because ______.
A. writing is secondary to language
B. human beings have been writing for at least 5000 years
C. it has become very important in our culture
D. people have been writing since there have been human beings
Giải bởi Vietjack
Chọn đáp án A.
Giải thích: Dựa vào câu: 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.
Dịch: Bởi vì chữ viết đã trở nên quá quan trọng trong nền văn hóa của chúng ta, đôi khi chúng ta nghĩ nó thực tế hơn là lời nói. Tuy nhiên, suy nghĩ một chút sẽ cho thấy lý do tại sao nói là chính và viết là phụ đối với ngôn ngữ.
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 17 to 21.
We need energy to live and work. Our major source of (17) _________is oil. Oil is one kind of fossil fuel. The amount of fossil fuels in the world is (18) _________. Therefore, we must save it, and at the same time, we must find new sources of energy. Geothermal heat and nuclear power are alternative (19) _________of energy. They can give us electricity. Other alternative sources (20) _________ the sun, waves and water. These sources are not only unlimited and available (21)_________clean and safe for the environment. People should develop and use them more and more in the future.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter a, b, c, or d on your answer sheet to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions
The people who wish to go on the tour are waiting in the lobby.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
In order to show that learning to write requires effort, the author gives the example of ______.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of primary stress in each of the following questions.
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
These sources are not only unlimited and available (21)_________clean and safe for the environment.
