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PASSAGE 03

►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 1 to 10.

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 thenineleenthcenturydid 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 increased, the number of potential listeners declined 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 way 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 specialised 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.

(Đề thi tuyển sinh đại học năm 2008)

Question 1: Reading aloud was more common in the medieval world because:

1. people relied on reading for entertainment

2. silent reading had not been discovered

3. there were few places available for private reading

4. few people could read to themselves

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