Tham khảo tài liệu 'đề thi thử đại học lần thứ 6 năm 2011 môn thi: tiếng anh - trường thpt cẩm thủy 1', tài liệu phổ thông, ôn thi đh-cđ phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | SỞ GD ĐT THANH HOÁ ĐỀ THI THỬ ĐẠI HỌC LẦN THỨ 6 NĂM 2011 TRƯỜNG THPT CẨM THỦY 1 MÔN THI TIẾNG ANH Ngày thi Thời gian làm bài 180phút Họ và tờn .Số bỏo danh. Đọc kỹ đoạn văn sau và chọn phương án đúng A hoặc B C D Reading to oneself is a modern activity which was almost unknown to the scholar 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 is a distraction to others. Examination of factors related to the historical development of silent reading reveals that it became the usual mode of reading for most adult reading tasks 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 readers increased so 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 material 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 places 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 century students were being recommended to adopt attitudes to books and to use skills in reading them which were inappropriate if not impossible for the oral reader. The social .
