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Can you imagine a world without words? The main way that we (1).....
years
with each
other is by using words. We can communicate either by speaking and listening or by (2)
......and reading. With words, we can give and receive information, ideas,
orders and instructions.
People have used writing to communicate for about 7000 ( 3 )........
At first, they
used to draw simple pictures to represent objects, such as people and animals. Then people started
to put pictures together to represent something (4).....
........difficult, like a sentence. The
next step in the development of writing was to use symbols, or signs. These symbols represented
the sounds of words and not their meanings.
(5)........
the alphabet from which modern English comes was invented in about
1500 BC. The people ( 6 )................invented the alphabet used a set of symbols to represen
the sound "o". This symbol is still used to the same sound today. Many languages are writter
with letters of an alphabet, including Vietnamese.