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BeforetheprintwasbroughttoEnglandin1476,everythingwaswrittenbyhand.Thefewpeoplewhoknewhowtowriteweretrainedinschoolssetupbythechurch.Thosewhomadealivingbywritingforotherpeoplewerecalledscribes(抄写员)。
Theworkofscribeswasnoteasy.MuchofithadtobedonefastinordertomeettheneedsoftheKing.thechurchandtraders.MostofthewritingwasinLatin(拉丁),butsomeofitwasintheEnglishoftheday.AndnoonewasquitesurehowsomeEnglishwordsshouldbespelled.
Oneproblemwasthatseveralletterswerewrittenwithshortverticalstrok (竖笔)thatalllookedlikeeachother.Amongthemweretheletters,i,u,v,mandn,Thus.fivestraightlinesinarowmightstandforuninuiuviormii.
Asaresult.readingwassometimesdifficult,especiallywhenthewritingwasdoneinahurry.
Thescribessolved(解决)theprobleminpart,bychangingtheletterutoowhenitcamebeforem.norv.
Thisishowsumandcumcamelobewrittenassomeandcome.
Atsomepoint,too,thescribesseemedtohavedecidedthatnoEnglishwordshouldbeendedbyuorv.Thus,intimeanewasaddedtosuchwordsaslive,have,dueandtrue.Itwasadded,butnotpronounced.
Whichofthefollowingistrueaccordingtothepassage?
EverythinghasbeenwrittenbyhandinEnglishsince1476.
Morethan500yearsagonopeoplemadealivingbywritingforotherpeople.
Thechurchsetupschoolstotrainscribesbefore1476.
ScribesinEnglandworkedonlyforkingsandtraders.
Whichofthefollowingisfalse?
Oftenthescribeshadtoworkwithgreatspeed.
ThespellingofsomeEnglishwordswaschanged.
D.SomescribesofthedaywerequitesureaboutthespellingofmanyEnglishwords.
Sometimespeoplecouldn’treadeasily .
becausethereweretoomanyu’sandv’sinsonicEnglishwords
becausemostofthewritingwasinLatin
whenthewritingwasinEnglish
Whentilewritingwasdonehurriedly
Thescribeschangedubefor
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