The Chinese first {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (make) paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces {#blank#}2{#/blank#}paper which were made as long ago as that. But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. It was made from the hair-like parts of certain plants.

    Paper was not made in {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (south) Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia( 斯堪的纳维亚半岛),which now makes a great deal of the {#blank#}4{#/blank#} (world) paper, did not begin to make it until 1500. It was a German {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (name) Schaeffer who found out that one could make the best paper from trees. After that, the forest countries of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (become) the largest paper producers. Today in Finland, which makes the {#blank#}7{#/blank#} (good) paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest on the land. New papermaking machines are very big, and {#blank#}8{#/blank#} (them) make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper that is 300 metres long and 6 metres wide {#blank#}9{#/blank#} one minute.

    When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes and writing paper. {#blank#}10{#/blank#}there are many other uses. Only half of the paper that is made is used for books and newspapers, etc.