Adding Relevant Sentences

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HSPT Language Skills › Adding Relevant Sentences

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Ancient Egyptian pharaohs weren’t always men: Hatshepsut, for example, is a famous ancient Egyptian female pharaoh. She accomplished a great deal while on the throne. She created trade routes and tried to import foreign trees to Egypt to grow there. \[1\] She died after reigning as pharaoh for twenty-two years. Afterward, someone tried to erase all mention of her in hieroglyphics and destroy any monuments dedicated to her. Luckily, some mentions of her still survived, which is why we still know about her rule today.

Assuming that all of the following statements are true, which would make the most sense if added to the paragraph at Location \[1\]?

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\[1\] Before the printing press and moveable type were in use, copyists had to spend a great deal of time hand-printing books. \[2\] This made books time-consuming to produce, relatively rare, and very expensive. \[3\] Books printed using a printing press relied not on human writers to spell out their messages, but on arrangements of metal or wooden blocks with letters on them. \[4\] Printing a book was much faster than hand-copying it.

The following sentence would make the most sense if added to the paragraph at which of the following locations?

"These blocks are known as 'type.'”

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