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(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.
Giờ người ta kinh hãi nhận ra rằng chiến tranh chẳng giải quyết cái gì cả; rằng thắng một cuộc chiến cũng thảm khốc như thua cuộc.
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Agatha Christie
