Practice 14 Five hundred years ago, news of important happenings—battles lost and won, kings or rulers overthrown or killed—took months and even years to travel from one country to another. The news
Passage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage. The word science is heard so often in modern times that almost everybody has some notion of its meaning. On the other hand, its definit
Passage 1 Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every day. Some people subscribe(订阅) to as many as two or three newspapers. But why do people read newspapers? Five hundred years