TEST YOURSELF E
(Unit 11 - Unit 13)
I. Listening Nghe đoạn văn và điền vào chỗ trống.
Đáp án.
1. illustrations 4. 868
2. preserve 5. dissemination of knowledge
3. bamboo
Tapesript:
Book, as we perceive it today, is a volume of many sheets of paper bound together, containing text, illustrations, photographs, or other kinds of information. Because they are relatively durable and portable, books have long been used to preserve and distribute information.
The forerunners of books were the hand-written books since centuries BC, including clay tablets, wood or bamboo tablets tied with cord. More closely, related to the modern book were the book rolls, or scrolls, of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans. The first book known to have been printed on paper was a Chinese edition of the Buddhist text Jingangjing (Diamond Sutra), dating from AD 868.
Thà rằng cứ để đầu óc trên mây và biết mình đang ở đâu... còn hơn hít thở bầu không khí rõ ràng hơn phía dưới và cứ ngỡ mình đang ở thiên đường.
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau
