A. HABITABLE B. INFAMOUSLY C. GENETICIST D. COMMUNISREAD THE FOLLO...

55. A. habitable

B. infamously

C. geneticist

D. communis

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word for

each of the blanks from 56 to 65

THE HISTORY OF WRITING

The development of writing (56) ______ a huge difference to the world and might see it as the beginning of the (57)

______. Pieces of pottery with marks on that are probably numbers have been discovered in China that date from around

4000 BC. Hieroglyphics and other forms of "picture writing" developed in the (58) _______ around Mesopotamia

(mordern-day Iraq), where the ancent Sumerian civilization was based, from around 3300 BC onwards. However, the

first (59) ________ alphabet was used by the Phoenicians around 1050BC. 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 (60) ________ word "alphabet"

The modern European alphabet is based on the Greek and (61) _______ to 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 (62) ______

to people in Shakespear's time.

If we (63) _______ the history of punctuation, we also find some interesting facts. The Romans used to write quaesto at

the end of a sentence in (64) _______ to show that it was a question. they started to write Qo in (65) _______ of the

whole word, and then put the Q above the o. In the end, that became the question mark "?"