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23. It is clear from the passage that the Amish ...
A) are a religious group in the US that live in a traditional way and refuse to use modern technology.
B) are typical American people who enjoy showing off all the things they possess.
C) are communities who do not like to live in one place for a long time but prefers to move around
D) are a native American tribe who can’t afford to purchase the aspects of the latest technology.
24. Which of the following is NOT TRUE?
A) The Amish community appeared about three centuries ago and still exists.
B) The Amish may feel need for a telephone only in unexpected situations involving danger.
C) The Amish converse about any technological equipment before allowing it to be used by them
D) The Amish members never leave their community for the modern world,
25. When the young Amish are thirteen, ...
A) they swear to be loyal to the regulation of their community.
B) they are allowed to listen to music and go inline skating.
C) they are taught how to modernize themselves
D) the curiosity about modern world stars to grow in their mind
26. The word OCCASIONALLY in the passage is closest in the meaning to:
A) inevitably B) rarely C) completely D) frequently


Alexander Melville Bell (1 March 1819–7 August 1505) was a teacher and researcher of physiological phonetics and was the author of numerous works on orthoepy and elocution. Melville Bell, the father of Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, studied the anatomy of speech and approached his subject 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.