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Welcome to Mr Aslanov’s Lessons 
QUESTION-TYPE BASED TESTS 
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process was assisted when the symbols which initally looked very like the object they represented gradually 
became more abstract and less clearly related to an object. However, while the symbol became more closely 
connected to words, it was words dealing with objects, such as sheep, bird or pot. It was still not possible to 
write more abstract ideas such as father, running, speech or foreigner. 
The solution to this problem was known as the rebus principle. Words with the same or similar 
pronuciation to an abstract word could be used to represent the abstract word. The sign for eye could be used 
to represent the word “I”. The sign for deer could represent the word “dear”. Which word is referred to by 
the picture is decided by an additional sign. Pictographs which originally represented a word began to 
represent the sound of the word.
The rebus principle is used to represent abstract words in all word writing systems in Sumer, Egypt, 
China and in the Aztec and Mayan writing in central America. The Rebus principle lead to cuneiform 
becoming a form of logo-syllabic writing consisting of both logograms and syllabic writing. The effect of 
the change from logographic to logo-syllabic writing was substantial. Logographic writing cannot produce 
normal prose and is resticted to nouns, numbers, names and adjectives. The vast majority of early Sumerian 
writing consisted of bureaucratic records of products received or products distributed. Only when syllabic 
writing was introduced into cuneiform did it become possible to write prose such as myths 
and royal propaganda. 
The next major development in writing in the old world was the development of the alphabet. The 
alphabet was developed out of Egyptian hieroglyphs which contained 24 signs for 24 Egyptian consonants. 
About 1700 BC Semites who knew Egyptian hieroglyphs began making certain changes in their writing 
system. They put the letters in a particular sequence and gave them simple names to assist learning and ease 
of memory. They also dropped the logograms and other signs used in hieroglyphs and just kept the Egyptian 
consonants and resticted the signs to those for individual consonants. Finally, they introduced 
vowels into their alphabet. Alphabets were soon to spread over most of the world as they provide both 
flexibility and simplicity for a writing system. 
Questions 1-7 
Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage? 
True if the statement agrees with the information 
False if the statement contradicts the information 
NOT GIVEN If there is no information on this