高一英語課文
Unit 20 Mainly Revision
1 . What was the problem with this method?這種方法有什麼毛病嗎？
2 . You couldn't use them again.你不可能再次使用這些木板。
3 . Then they brushed ink on the paper.然後，他們將墨汁刷在紙上。
4 . That doesn't sound like modern printing.這聽起來不像是現代印刷術呀。
5 . No. The next development was to carve the characters on a piece of wood.是的，不像。下一步的發展是將漢字刻在一片木板上。
6 . The characters on the paper were white, and the rest of the paper was black.紙上的漢字呈白色，其餘部分成黑色。
7 . After they carved the characters on rocks, they put a piece of wet paper on top of the characters and beat it lightly.他們把字刻在石塊上後，再把一張潮濕的紙放在字的上面，並輕輕地拍打。
8 . After you printed the book, you had to throw away the carved pieces of wood.你把書印出後，不得不把刻過的一片片木板扔掉。
9 . No, not exactly. But later, peole developed a way of printing, using rocks.不完全是這樣。但後來，人們利用石頭，研製了一種印刷方法。
10 . They carved a whole page of characters back-to-front in the wood.他們在木板上刻滿整頁的反字（背面朝上）。
11 . It took a very long time to carve a page for a book.刻一頁書要花費的時間太長。
12 . After that they pressed a piece of paper on top, and printed a whole page of a book.然後，再把一張紙壓在上面，就印出了一整頁書。
13 . Then they brushed ink onto the characters.接著，把墨汁刷在字上。
14 . People had to use other ways to record information.人們只得使用其他方法記錄資料。
15 . Do you call that printing?你們把那種方法叫做印刷術嗎？
16 . How did the printing come out?這種印刷結果怎樣？
17 . What happened before printing was invented?印刷術發明以前是怎麼一回事？
18 . In the beginning they used to carve Chinese characters on stones to record important dates in history.開始時，他們常把漢字刻在石頭上，記載歷史上重要的日期。