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  3. In early times, book consisted of inscribed clay tablets, rolls of papyrus,

In early times, book consisted of inscribed clay tablets, rolls of papyrus,

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问题     In early times, book consisted of inscribed clay tablets, rolls of papyrus, (1)______
sheets of parchment, or other materials.
    Modern books consist of printed pages bounded between protective cov- (2)______
ers. The earliest survival works that may be classified as books were pro- (3)______
duced in Egypt and Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) about 5,000 years ago.
    The wedge-shaped letters characteristics of cuneiform script was pressed into the (4)______
damp clay. Gradually papyrus scrolls replaced the clay tablets because of Aramaic lan- (5)______
guage, which could not easily be transcripted in cunei- (6) ______
form words. Papyrus scrolls were made from flat strips cut (7)______
from the stem of the papyrus plant. The strips were pasted together
to form long sheets. A stick was attached to every end of the sheet, (8)______
it was then wound up to form a scroll. The papyrus could be easily carried and stored, (9)______
and it was poor for preserving records. Eventually parchment replaced pa- (10)______
pyrus as a writing material. [br] (3)
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答案 survival — surviving
解析 名词虽然可以做前置修饰语修饰另一个名词，但在此处survival只能表示书的用途、功能，因此语意不适合，应选用survive的-ing形式修饰works表示“现存的，保留下来的”。
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