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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, 【M1】______
sheets of parchment, or other materials.
    Modern books consist of printed pages bounded between protective cov- 【M2】______
ers. The earliest survival works that may be classified as books were pro- 【M3】______
duced in Egypt and Mesopotamia (modern Iraq) about 5,000 years ago.
    The wedge-shaped letters characteristics of cuneiform script was pressed into the 【M4】______
damp clay. Gradually papyrus scrolls replaced the clay tablets because of Aramaic lan- 【M5】______
guage, which could not easily be transcripted in cunei- 【M6】______
form words. Papyrus scrolls were made from flat strips cut 【M7】______
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, 【M8】______
it was then wound up to form a scroll. The papyrus could be easily carried and stored, 【M9】______
and it was poor for preserving records. Eventually parchment replaced pa- 【M10】______
pyrus as a writing material. [br] 【M4】
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答案 characteristics — characteristic
解析 本句的主语应该为the wedge-shaped letters，因此此处应选用一个形容词和后面的of结构共同修饰主语。characteristic既可作名词又可作形容词，因此在这里应选它作形容词。考生应对较复杂句子的结构了如指掌，知道每一部分充当什么结构用什么样的词性来完成。
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