A. Useful expressions:

1. in the beginning, at the beginning, from the beginning

In the beginning they used to carve Chinese characters on stones.

The accident happened at the beginning of the sports meet.

I've read the book from the (very) beginning to the end.

2. development

Susan is asking Mrs Zhu about the development of printing in China.

3. come out

How did the printing come out?

4. sound like sth

That doesn't sound like modern printing.

5. throw away

After you printed the book, you had to throw away the carved pieces of wood.

B. Sentence patterns:

1. It is believed that

It is believed that before writing was developed, people in China used to keep

records by putting a number of stones together.