Reading C1 – Bài 5: Historical Account – The Printing Press

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1. It is tempting to credit the printing press with the Reformation, but the causation runs both ways.

2. Printing lowered the cost of reproducing text by roughly two orders of magnitude within fifty years.

3. Yet demand mattered as much as supply: literacy rates in commercial towns were already rising.

4. Printers were businesses, and they printed what sold — pamphlets, almanacs and controversy.

5. Authorities responded with licensing regimes that were, almost without exception, evaded.

6. The lasting change was less the spread of any single idea than the normalisation of disagreement in print.

7. Read this way, the press did not cause an argument; it made arguing durable.

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1. 1. What does the writer say about press and Reformation?

   Press alone caused itCausation runs both waysThey are unrelatedReformation caused printing

2. 2. What made demand important?

   Falling paper pricesRising literacy in commercial townsRoyal ordersChurch support

3. 3. Licensing regimes were generally effective.

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4. 4. Điền: printers printed what ______.

5. 5. What was the lasting change?

   One idea spreadingDisagreement becoming normal in printCheaper paperFewer books