Scrambled paragraph answers are below the exercises:
Chinese script was used by the intelligentsia of the country, but being of
foreign origin, it could not fully express the words and meaning of Korean
thoughts and spoken language.
_____ (Q) King Sejong felt great sympathy for the people.
_____
(R) What he envisioned was a set of letters that was uniquely Korean and easily learnable,
rendering it accessible and usable for the common people.
_____
(S) Therefore, common people with legitimate complaints had no way of submitting
their grievances to the appropriate authorities, other than through oral
communication.
_____
(T) Furthermore, they had no way to record for posterity the agricultural wisdom
and knowledge they had gained through years of experience.
_____
(U) As a revolutionary ruler strongly dedicated to national identity and cultural
independence, he immediately searched for solutions.
Before there was money,
as we know it, there was barter.
_____ (Q) Gradually, therefore, people began exchanging items that had no intrinsic
value, but which had only agreed-upon or symbolic value.
_____
(R) Early in pre-history, some people made a fundamental shift in what they
chose to use for proto-money.
_____ (S) Forms of proto-money
included cacao beans for Aztecs, butter for Norwegians and early U.S. colonists
used animal hides (settlers traded deer hides -- the origin of our modern word
for money: "bucks").
_____
(T) Some items, such as arrowheads, salt and animal hides, were useful in and
of themselves and therefore not perfect as money.
_____ (U) People,
however, developed forms of proto-money -- the use of commodities that everyone
agreed to accept in trade.
Maria agreed to work as a private tutor, setting aside money to pay
Bronya's tuition at medical school and as soon as Bronya could, she would
help subsidize Maria's education.
_____ (Q) For the next three years
she worked as a well-paid governess.
_____ (R) After two years of teaching various subjects to
children from wealthy families, Maria realized she was not saving money
efficiently enough.
_____ (S) Her charges were the children of an
agriculturist who ran a beet-sugar factory in a village 150 kilometers north
of Warsaw.
_____ (T) He encouraged his older daughter to assist
Maria, even though he knew the czarist authorities equated such activity with
treason.
_____ (U) Maria felt a kinship with her employer when he
permitted her in her spare time to teach the illiterate children of his
peasant laborers.
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Answers are below:
Answers:
Money - 5,3,2,4,1
Maria - 2,1,3,5,4
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Links:
http://www.shoutcastblog.com/2010/05/11/wondergirls-were-mistreated-by-jyp-entertainment/
http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100512000682
Links:
http://www.shoutcastblog.com/2010/05/11/wondergirls-were-mistreated-by-jyp-entertainment/
http://nwww.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20100512000682
