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THE HOSTORY OF WRITING

The development of writing (26)________ 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 (27)________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 (28)________ 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 (29)________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 (30)________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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          If you want to prepare yourself for great achievement and have more to (31) ________ to your education or your work, try reading more books. Pick (32) ________ some of the interestingly informative books and search for well-researched materials that can help you grow.

          We should encourage our children to read more books and spend less time watching TV. Some people have commented that this is inconsistent. "Why is the written word a superior way to get information than television?" That is an interesting point of view worth further (33) ________. Reading is a skill that is in much to watch TV but reading is an integral part of many jobs. The written word is an incredibly flexible and efficient way of communication. You can write something down and, in no time, it can be communicated to many different people. Not only that, we can (35) ________ vast amounts of information through reading in a very short time. A good reader can acquire more information in reading for two hours than someone watching TV can acquire in a full day. You are able to gain a lot of information quickly because you are a fast reader with good comprehension skills. It will save you massive amounts of time and you will be able to assimilate vast quantities of information.

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ROBOTS

Ever since it was first possible to make a real robot, people have been hoping for the invention of a machine (36) ________would do all the necessary jobs around the house. If boring and repetitive factory work could be (37) ________by robots, why not boring and repetitive household chores too?

For a long time the only people who really gave the problem their attention were amateur inventors. And they came up against a major difficulty. That si, houwork is actually very complex. It hat never been one job, it has always been many. A factory robot (38) ________one task endlessly until it is reprogrammed to do something else. It doesn’t run the whole factory. A housework robot, on the other hand, has to do severa different types of cleaning and carrying jobs and also has to cope (39) ________all the different shapes and positions of rooms, furniture, ornaments, cats and dogs. (40) ________, there have been some developments recently. Sensosrs are available to help the robot locate objects and avoid obstacles. We have the technology to produce the hardware. All that is missing the software-the programs that will operate the machine.

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Any change in one part of an ecosystem can cause changes in other parts. Droughts, storms and fires can change ecosystems. Some changes (41) ________ ecosystems. If there is too (42) ________ rainfall, plants will not have enough water to live. If a kind of plant dies off, the animals that feed on it may also die or move away. Some changes are good for ecosystems. Some pine forests need fires for the pine trees to reproduce. The seeds are sealed inside pinecones. Heat from a forest fire melts the seal ans lets the seeds (43) ________ . Polluting the air, soil and water can harm ecosystems. Building (44) ________ on rivers for electric power and irrigation can harm ecosystems around the rivers. Bulldozing wetlands and cutting down forests destroy ecosystems. Ecologists are working with companies and goverments to find better ways of (45) ________ fish, cutting down trees, and building dams. They are looking for ways to get food, lumber, and other products for people without causing harm to ecosystems.