tailieunhanh - Toefl preparation for the computer and paper test part 38

Tham khảo tài liệu 'toefl preparation for the computer and paper test part 38', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 18. Look at the word it in paragraph 2. Click on the word or phrase in paragraph 2 that it refers to. 19. Look at the word culprits in paragraph 3. This word is closest in meaning to which of the following Guilty parties Detectives Group members Leaders 0000 20. Click on the drawing that shows what happens after a chlorine molecule reacts with an ozone molecule. 21. Click on the sentence in paragraph 3 that explains how much damage chlorine can do. 354 READING PASSAGE THREE Questions 22-34 Esperanto is what is called a planned or artificial language. It was created more than a century ago by Polish eye doctor Ludwik Lazar Zamenhof. Zamenhof believed that a common language would help to alleviate some of the misunderstandings among cultures. In Zamenhof s first attempt at a universal language he tried to create a language that was as uncomplicated as possible. This first language included words such as ab ac ba eb be and ce. This did not result in a workable language in that these monosyllabic words though short were not easy to understand or to retain. Next Zamenhof tried a different way of constructing a simplified language. He made the words in his language sound like words that people already knew but he simplified the grammar tremendously. One example of how he simplified the language can be seen in the suffixes all nouns in this language end in o as in the noun amiko which means friend and all adjectives end in -a as in the adjective beta which means pretty. Another example of the simplified language can be seen in the prefix mal- which makes a word opposite in meaning the word malamiko therefore means enemy and the word malbela therefore means ugly in Zamenhof s language. In 1887 Zamenhof wrote a description of this language and published it. He used a penname Dr. Esperanto when signing the book. He selected the name Esperanto because this word means a person who hopes in his language. Esperanto clubs began popping up throughout Europe and by 1905 Esperanto .