Engleski B - 2013./14. ljeto - Task 6

Task 6
Questions 26-30
Complete this text. For questions 26-30, write one word for each space.
Write your answer only here in this exam booklet.
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Alphabet
It can come as a bit of a surprise to learn that the word alphabet arrived (0) in English quite late - almost a thousand years after the language was first written down.

We are so used (26) the idea of an alphabet nowadays that it's difficult to imagine a time (27) it was not a routine part of everyday life. Once we (28) learned to read, we don't think twice about putting things into alphabetical order. We also expect words to be in alphabetical order when we look them (29) in a dictionary.
When in 1604 the first English dictionary was written by English school teacher Robert Cawdrey, he felt it was (30) a new idea that he had to explain how his "Table Alphabeticall" should be used.
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