Writing began with pictures.
- Yes
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On rocks and on the walls of caves.
- Yes
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Ancient people recorded many things.
- Yes
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Drew pictures of people and animals.
- Yes
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Three thousand years ago in the middle east.
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Scratched lines on wet clay.
- Yes
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This writing is called cuneiform.
- Yes
- No
During that time in Egypt, only certain people were allowed to write.
- Yes
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Drawn on papyrus or carved stone.
- Yes
- No
Chinese writing began as a kind of picture writing.
- Yes
- No
Scratched on bone, bronze or stone.
- Yes
- No
Changed very little in the last 3000 years.
- Yes
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Today the Chinese write on paper with brush and ink.
- Yes
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More than 40,000 separate signs are used in Chinese.
- Yes
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These signs are sometimes called pictographs.
- Yes
- No
Different pictographs for new words.
- Yes
- No
A difficult task for Chinese students.
- Yes
- No
The sign for sun behind the sign for tree.
- Yes
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This combination means east.
- Yes
- No
Which of these groups of words is a sentence?
- Sitting in the library.
- Jana worked on her report every day.
Which of these groups of words is a sentence?
- She needed more pictures for her report.
- The librarian at the main desk.
Which of these groups of words is a sentence?
- After reading Jana's first draft.
- Over the weekend she made some changes.
Which of these groups of words is a sentence?
- Saw an A+ at the top of her paper.
- Jana got an A+ on her report.
Which of these groups of words is a sentence?
- Jana's teacher put the roport on the bulliten board.
- With slight changes and using more pictures.