TAILIEUCHUNG - IELTS Academic Reading 35

giới thiệu đến bạn IELTS Academic Reading 35 nhằm giúp các bạn có tài liệu ôn tập, luyện tập nhằm nắm vững được những kiến thức, kĩ năng cơ bản, đồng thời vận dụng kiến thức để giải các bài tập đề thi một cách thuận lợi. Chúc các bạn thi tốt! | IELTS Academic Reading 35 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1-13 which are based on Reading Passage 35 below GLASS Capturing the dance of light A Glass in one form or another has long been in noble service to humans As one of the most widely used of manufactured materials and certainly the most versatile it can be as imposing as a telescope mirror the width of a tennis court or as small and simple as a marble rolling across dirt The uses of this adaptable material have been broadened dramatically by new technologies glass fibre optics more than eight million miles carrying telephone and television signals across nations glass ceramics serving as the nose cones of missiles and as crowns for teeth tiny glass beads taking radiation doses inside the body to specific organs even a new type of glass fashioned of nuclear waste in order to dispose of that unwanted material. B On the horizon are optical computers These could store programs and process information by means of light - pulses from tiny lasers - rather than electrons And the pulses would travel over glass fibres not copper wire These machines could function hundreds of times faster than today s electronic computers and hold vastly more information Today fibre optics are used to obtain a clearer image of smaller and smaller objects than ever before - even bacterial viruses. A new generation of optical instruments is emerging that can provide detailed imaging of the inner workings of cells. It is the surge in fibre optic use and in liquid crystal displays that has set the . glass industry a 16 billion dollar business employing some 150 000 workers to building new plants to meet demand. C But it is not only in technology and commerce that glass has widened its horizons. The use of glass as art a tradition spins back at least to Roman times is also booming. Nearly everywhere it seems men and women are blowing glass and creating works of art. I didn t sell a piece of glass until 1975 Dale Chihuly .

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