8th form "Books" Reading / Grammar

1. Many, many years _____ a town cryer ran through the streets and shouted out all the news.

2. But now we live in the Atomic Age. Too many things happen too quickly for us to learn about them in the _____ way.

3. That is why we have to read more and more ____ to find out what is happening in the world.

4. Have you ever thought about the kind of books people used long ago? It is only in the last 500 years that books _____ on paper.

5. Before that time the only way of making books was ____ them out by hand.

6. No one knows when writing first began, but we have found ____ on the walls of caves and scratchings on the bones which are at least 25,000 years old.

7. The invention of paper played a very important part in the _____ of books.

8. In the 11th century the art of papermaking reached Europe but no trace of _____ was found in Europe until 1423.

9. It is known that Johann Gutenberg secretly tried out ways of printing in Germany in 1440. The knowledge of the methods of printing spread so quickly over the Continent of Europe that by the year 1487 nearly every country ____ printing books.

10. Later people began ____ how to make paper more quickly and cheaply and of better quality.

11. As a result of this, mooks became much lighte and smaller. The first person ____ books in the English language was William Caxton.

12. By the 16th century books looked ____ as the do today and since then very little change has been made in their appearance.