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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] (9)
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解析 这句话如果用it，则犯了run-on sentence的毛病，即两个或两个以上的简单句在没有任何连词连接的情况下并存于一个句子。这样的错误在中国学生中特别常见，也许是受到中文影响的缘故，因此这句话最好的改法是将it变成which，构成一个关系分句来修饰the sheet；次之的改法是在it前加上and或词义类似的其他连词，当然这样的改法不免使句子显得有些臃肿拖沓。
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