Read the following passage and mark the letter A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.THE HOSTORY OF WRITINGThe development of writing (30)________ a huge difference to the world and might see it as the beginning of the media. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China (31)________date from around 4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of “picture writing” developed in...
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Read the following passage and mark the letter A,B,C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
THE HOSTORY OF WRITING
The development of writing (30)________ a huge difference to the world and might see it as the beginning of the media. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China (31)________date from around 4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of “picture writing” developed in the area around Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), where the ancient Sumerian civilization was based, from around 3300 BC onwards. However, the first (32)________ alphabet was used by the Phoenicians around 1050 BC. Their alphabet had 22 letters and it is estimated that it lasted for 1000 years. The first two signs were called “aleph” and “beth”, which in Greek became “alpha” and “beta”, which gave us the modern word “alphabet”.
The modern European alphabet is based on the Greek and spead (33)________other European countries under the Romans. A number of changes took place as time passed. The Romans added the letter G, and the letter J and V were unknown to people in Shakespeare’s time.
If we (34)________the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts. The Romans used to write quaesto at the end of a sentence in order to show that it was a Question. They started to write Qo in place of the whole word, and the put the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark “?”
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A. where
B. that
C. who
D. when
VI. Some phrases are removed from the text. Put them in the correct order. Write the appropriate letter in each number.
A. who was sitting quietly on a chair in the garden.
B. that she wasn’t in a hurry
C. and they had to be at the airport at 11.40 am.
D. without worrying about being late.
E. Mrs Will and their children
Mr and (1) ______E___were going to begin their vacation one day (2) _____C_____. Mr Will said that it would take them half an hour to get to the airport in the taxi so they all had to be ready by 11 o’clock.
At ten minutes to eleven they were still all running around doing things, except Mrs Will, (3) ____A__ enjoying the Sun.
Her husband and the children were very surprised (4) __B___, too, until the taxi arrived and Mrs Will said to them “Well, I knew that this was going to happen, so before I went to bed last night, I moved all our clock and watches ahead twenty minutes. So now we can go to the airport quietly (5) ___D____ .
VI. Some phrases are removed from the text. Put them in the correct order. Write the appropriate letter in each number.
A. who was sitting quietly on a chair in the garden.
B. that she wasn’t in a hurry
C. and they had to be at the airport at 11.40 am.
D. without worrying about being late.
E. Mrs Will and their children
Mr and (1) ____E. Mrs Will and their children_____were going to begin their vacation one day (2) ___C. and they had to be at the airport at 11.40 am_______. Mr Will said that it would take them half an hour to get to the airport in the taxi so they all had to be ready by 11 o’clock.
At ten minutes to eleven they were still all running around doing things, except Mrs Will, (3) __A. who was sitting quietly on a chair in the garden____ enjoying the Sun.
Her husband and the children were very surprised (4) __B. that she wasn’t in a hurry___, too, until the taxi arrived and Mrs Will said to them “Well, I knew that this was going to happen, so before I went to bed last night, I moved all our clock and watches ahead twenty minutes. So now we can go to the airport quietly (5) ___D. without worrying about being late____ .