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:
Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud. Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace.
One should be wary, however, of assuming that silent reading came about simply because reading aloud was a distraction to others. 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.
The last century saw a steady gradual increase in literacy and thus in the number of readers. As the number of readers increases, the number of potential listeners decline and thus there was some reduction in the need to read aloud. As reading for the benefit of listeners grew less common, so came the flourishing of reading as a private activity in such public places as libraries, railway carriages and offices, where reading aloud would cause distraction to other readers.
Towards the end of the century, there was still considerable argument over whether books should be used for information or treated respectfully and over whether the reading of materials such as newspapers was in some mentally weakening. Indeed, this argument remains with us still in education. However, whatever its virtues, the old shared literacy culture had gone and was replaced by the printed mass media on the one hand and by books and periodicals for a specialized readership on the other.
By the end of the twentieth century, students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use reading skills which were inappropriate, if not impossible, for the oral reader.
The social, cultural and technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term “reading” implied.
The word “commonplace” in the first paragraph mostly means “ .”
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Lời giải:
Báo saiThông tin: Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and medieval worlds, while during the fifteenth century the term “reading” undoubtedly meant reading aloud.
Only during the nineteenth century did silent reading become commonplace
Dịch nghĩa: Việc đọc sách cho mình là một hoạt động hiện đại mà hầu như không được biết đến với những học giả của thế giới cổ điển và trung cổ, khi mà suốt thế kỷ XV, thuật ngữ "đọc" chắc chắn có nghĩa là đọc lớn tiếng. Chỉ trong thế kỷ XIX thì đọc thầm mới trở nên phổ biến.
Phần đầu của đoạn văn nói rằng việc đọc thầm hầu như không được biết đến ở thế kỷ XV mà phải đến tận thế kỷ XIX nó mới trở nên commonplace. Do đó từ commonplace có nghĩa trái ngược với từ “unknown” (không được biết đến).
Phương án D. widely used (adj) = được sử dụng rộng rãi, là phương án chính xác nhất.
attracting attention = thu hút sự chú ý.
for everybody’s use = phục vụ việc sử dụng của tất cả mọi người
most preferable = được ưa chuộng nhất