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Lesson 30
How much paper do you use every year? Perhaps you can't answer that queation quickly. Some countries use as much as 15KG of paper for each person in a year. Countries like the United States, England and Sweden use more paper than other countries. Paper is made from the wood of trees, so the forest countries like Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United States have become the most inportant countries in paper making. Finland makes the best paper in the world. Today, paper making machines are very big and they make paper very fast. Watch they are run, the biggest machines can make a piece of paper 400m long and 6m wide in one minute. When we think of paper, we think of newspaper, books, letters and writing paper. But there are many other uses. Only half of the paper that is made is used for books and newspaper. For example, paper keeps you warm. In Finland's cold winters, the farmers wear paper boots in the snow, nothing is warmer than paper boots.