Упр.29 Unit 2 Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ English Михеева 9 класс

Choose the right items to complete the texts below.

1. A. Books
   Books are used for (1) ______ all kinds of knowledge, ideas, and stories. Some of the earliest books were made by the ancient Egyptians. They were written by hand on rolls of paper made (2) ______ the papyrus plant. By the time of the Roman Empire, many books were handwritten on parchment or vellum, made (3) ______ animal skin. It (4) ______ cut into sheets to look much the same (5) ______ a modern book. During the Middle Ages, monks made many beautiful books. They were (6) ______ by hand with bright colours and sometimes with gold and silver. In the 1400s (7) ______ on paper was introduced in Europe. At first this was very slow because much of the work still (8) ______ to be done by hand. Then Johannes Gutenberg invented a machine with (9) ______ type which could produce books (10) ______. Today, many (11) ______ of books are produced every year, in all the languages of the world.
2. B. Newspapers
   Newspapers are just what their name says — they are papers that (1) ______ news. They first appeared in the 1400s. Printers produced pamphlets (2) ______ people what was happening in the country and what they thought about it. Modern newspapers first appeared in the 1700s. Today, there are newspapers in (3) ______ every country in the world, in many different languages. Some (4) ______ printed every day, some every week. One of the oldest newspapers is “The Times” of London. It (5) ______ in 1785. (6) ______ famous newspapers are the “New York Times” and the “Washington Post” in the United States, and “Le Monde” in France. The first (7) ______ US (8) ______ newspaper, the “Pennsylvania Packet and General Advertiser”, was published in 1784.