Question 36 – 40: Read the passage carefully.Almon Strowger, an American engineer, constructed the first automatic telephone switching system, which had a horizontal, bladelike contact arm, in 1891. The first commercial switchboard based on his invention opened in La Porte, Indiana, a year later and was an instant success with business users. To access the system, the caller pressed button to reach the desired number and turned the handle to activate the telephone ringer. During the same year, Strowger’s step-by-step call advancement technology was implemented in the long-distance service between New York and Chicago when it proved to have the capacity of carrying signals through cable-joint extensions.The first actual dial telephone, patented by Lee De Forest in 1907, was installed in Milwaukee in 1906. In 1912, their sound transmittal apparatus adapted an electronic tube to function as an amplifier. Transatlantic radio-telephone service linked New York and London in 1927. However, the long distances coaxial cable, which was hailed as unprecedented, came on the scene in 1936 connecting New York and Philadelphia. The Bell Laboratories research facility came up with the transistor to replace the cumbersome vacuum tube, thus diminishing the size of the electronic switch system to about 10 percent of that of the original. Crossbar switching, installed in terminals in 1938, operated on the principle of an electromagnetic force, which rotated horizontal and vertical bars within a rectangular frame and brought contacts together in a split second. A technological breakthrough in the form of undersea cables between the United States and Hawaii was implemented almost twenty years later. An extension was connected to Japan in 1964.Choose an option (A, B, C or D) that best answers each question.
Câu 1: Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Patent History of the Telephone
B. A link between Research and Technology
C. The Developing Sophistication of the Telephone
D. The Telephone: A Technological Fantasy
Câu 2: It can be inferred from the passage that initially telephones ________.
A. were limited to businesses
B. did not have a bell
C. utilized human operators
D. revitalized business in La Porte, Indiana
Câu 3: The word “implemented” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. used
B. breached
C. broken
D. usurped
Câu 4: The word “that” in paragraph 2 refers to _________.
A. the system
B. the tube
C. the size
D. the percent
Câu 5: The author of the passage implies that telephone networks expanded because of _______.
A. the work of a few inventors
B. staunch public and private support
C. multiple technical blunders
D. a series of breakthroughs
A.
B.
C.
D.
Câu 1: Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Patent History of the Telephone
B. A link between Research and Technology
C. The Developing Sophistication of the Telephone
D. The Telephone: A Technological Fantasy
Câu 2: It can be inferred from the passage that initially telephones ________.
A. were limited to businesses
B. did not have a bell
C. utilized human operators
D. revitalized business in La Porte, Indiana
Câu 3: The word “implemented” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to _______.
A. used
B. breached
C. broken
D. usurped
Câu 4: The word “that” in paragraph 2 refers to _________.
A. the system
B. the tube
C. the size
D. the percent
Câu 5: The author of the passage implies that telephone networks expanded because of _______.
A. the work of a few inventors
B. staunch public and private support
C. multiple technical blunders
D. a series of breakthroughs
A.
B.
C.
D.
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