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ĐỀ SỐ 28SIGNS OF THE TIMESWe are familiar (0) with the saying "a picture paints a thousand words" and in the global village, the world has become, information in pictorial(DIỄN TẢ BẰNG HÌNH ẢNH) form is (1)_____we turn. Much communication takes place through symbols rather than words, a case in point (2) ______ airports, where you can see the majority of the thirty-four symbols devised (3)______ the American Institute of Graphic Arts(NT ĐỒ HỌA) in the 1970s. Such signs as a knife and fork for a restaurant or a telephone for a phone booth are a boon(lLỢI ÍCH, SỰ VUI VẺ) for (4) _______ a traveler who does not speak English or use the Latin alphabet. (5) _______ worldwide "languages" of this kind are musical and mathematical notation(kí hiệu), circuit diagrams(SƠ ĐỒ MẠCH), road signs and computer icons, (6)______, again, bypass(BỎ QUA) the need for words. Even a label on a garment(quần áo) will carry, in symbols, washing and ironing instructions. All these (7) ______ to be sufficient to their (8)______ restricted worlds but would it really be possible to devise a universal symbolic system of communication independent of any spoken language, culture-free and value-free, as dreamt of by the seventeenth-century philosopher Leibniz? It would seem (9) ______. Chinese and Japanese pictograms and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics(NHỮNG CHỮ VIẾT TƯỢNG HÌNH) are sometimes cited as examples of such a system, yet both Japanese script and Egyptian hieroglyphics include sound-based elements andChinese is often transliterated(ĐƯỢC CHUYỂN TỰ/THÀNH ) (10)______ romanised ( TIẾNG LA MÃ) sound based "pin yin" script. In a word, words are inescapable(KHÔNG THỂ LỜ ĐƯỢC).

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