Tham khảo tài liệu 'đề thi đại học- cao đẳng 2011 khối d - đề số 1', tài liệu phổ thông, ôn thi đh-cđ phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ĐỀ THI ĐẠI HỌC- CAO ĐẲNG 2011 KHỐI D Đề số 1 Đọc kĩ đoạn văn sau và chọn phương án đúng A hoặc B C D cho mỗi câu t. Reading to oneself is a mordern activity which was almost unknown to the scholars of the classical and medieval words 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 agument 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 ineducation. However whateverits 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 ifnot impossible for the oral reader. The social cultural and technological changes in the century had greatly altered what the term reading implied. 1. .
