【全国英语等级考试四级】Unit 2 计算机与信息II-passage(2/6)

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Unit 1 Unit 1 Computer and Information (II)  计算机与信息
passage6-2
Hints:
wedge-shaped
Egypt
第一处writing大写Writing
With the invention of writing, however, everything changed. People could write down many kinds of information and keep it for a long period of time. They wrote down information about the moon and stars. They wrote down what the king did or what happened in wars and natural disasters. In addition, people began to write down poems and stories and songs. They began to write down their questions and thoughts about life. Writing marked the beginning of news and the beginning of literature.
For a long time, writing was a slow process. Before the invention of paper, people wrote on clay or stone. Around 3000 B. C., the Sumerians invented cuneiform writing - wedge-shaped symbols , which they stamped into clay. Other writing systems developed, and eventually, in Egypt and in China, paper was invented. Scribes slowly copied information by hand. Written information began to travel from one culture to another.