Comprehension Passages

306- Mother Theresa………….. .

***A)found her life's work among the impoverished people of India

B)spent most of her life trying to solve the conflicts in her native land

C)helped her father open the first theatre in Skopje

D)would not have won the Nobel Peace Prize had she not been from Macedonia

E)acted as a peace-maker between Albanians and Serbs

Melville Bell, the father of Alexander Graham. Bell, the inventor of the telephone, studied the anatomy of speech and approached his subjects with scientific thoroughness. In 1864, he completed a universally applicable phonetic alphabet. by which he could describe the manner of production of the sounds of nearly all known languages. He called this alphabet 'Visible Speech" and its various symbols - thirty-four in all -showed how the vocal organs would be positioned to make a sound. This alphabet was to become the direct ancestor of the international phonetic alphabet, which is used today.