Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer for each of the blanks from 36 to 45. The universal symbol of the Internet era communications, the @ sign used in e-mail addresses to signify the word ‘at’, is (36)_________ a 500-year-old invention of Italian merchants, aRomeacademic has revealed. Giorgio Stabile, a science professor at La Sapienza University, (37)__________to have stumbled on the earliest known example of the symbol’s use, as a(n) (38) __________ of a measure of weight or volume. He says the sign represents an amphora, a measure of (39) ____________ based on the terracotta jars used to transport grain and liquid in the ancient Mediterranean world. The professor (40)____________toe ancient symbol in the course of research for a visual history of the 20th century, to be published by the Treccani Encyclopedia. The first (41)__________instance of its use, he says, occurred in a letter written by a Florentine merchant on May 4, 1536. He says the sign made its (42) __________ along trade routes to northernEurope, where it came to represent ‘at the price of, its contemporary accountancy (43)____________. Professor Stabile believes that Italian banks may possess even earlier documents (44)__________the symbol lying forgotten in their archives. The oldest example could be of great value. It could be used (45) __________ publicity purposes and to enhance the prestige of the institution that owned it,* he says. The race is on between the mercantile world and the banking world to see who has the oldest documentation of @.
Câu 1: ________(36)
A. actually
B. truly
C. essentially
D. accurately
Câu 2: ________(37)
A. says
B. states
C. claims
D. tells
Câu 3: ________(38)
A. proof
B. sign
C. evidence
D. indication
Câu 4: ________(39)
A. ability
B. capacity
C. capability
D. facility
Câu 5: ________(40)
A. exposed
B. unearthed
C. dug
D. devised
Câu 6: ________(41)
A. known
B. knowing
C. knowable
D. knowledgeable
Câu 7: ________(42)
A. line
B. means
C. way
D. method
Câu 8: ________(43)
A. sense
B. importance
C. meaning
D. understanding
Câu 9: ________(44)
A. taking
B. carrying
C. delivering
D. bearing
Câu 10: ________(45)
A. on
B. for
C. with
D. by
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