1 2 A Choose the correct answer. THE HISTORY OF WRITING The development of writing (1) __ pottery with marks on that are probably numbers a huge difference to the world and we might see it as th beginning of the (2) __ from around 4000BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of picture bec __ in China that civilization was based - around Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq), where the (5) __ Sumeri developed in the (4) __ around 3300 BC onwards However, the first (6) __ alphabet. used by the Phoenicians around 1050BC Their alphabet had 22 letters and it is (7) __ it lasted for 1000 years. The first two signs were called 'aleph and 'beth; which in Greek becar 'alpha'and'beta; which gave us the (8)........... word'alphabet? The modern European alphabet is based __ the Greek and (9) __ to other European count under the Romans. A number of changes took (10) __ the letter G, and the letters J and V were (12) ............ ............. as time (11) __ The Romans ad If we (13) __ the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts The Romans __ people in Shakespeare's time. to write quaesto at the end of a sentence in (14) __ to show that it was a question.They sta to write Qo in (15) __ of the whole word, and then put the Q above the o. In the end. became the question mark ?: 1 A did B had 2 A media B bulletin 3 A invented (B)displayed A distance B) area A antique B old-fashioned A true B accurate A observed B measured (A new B trendy A spread (B)appeared 10 A place part C made C) programme C discovered C length ancient c exact counted C modern C was C control C went (C) unknown C make off (C) order C spot D took D journalis D appeare D earth D dated D precise D estimat D fashion D occurre D accour D develo D hidder D hold D intent D place A spent A infamous B passed A look into B unpopular A turn B bring on B fact A position B space