The Chinese first made paper about 2 000 years ago.China still has pieces of paper which were made that old.But Chinese paper was not made from wood of trees.It was made from the hair-like parts of certain plants.Paper was not made in southern Europe until about the year (1)_______________.
Scandinavia, which now makes a great deal of the world’s paper did not start making it until (2)_____________.It was a German named Schaeffer who found out that the best paper could be made from trees.After that, the forest countries like Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland,and the United States became the most important in paper making.
Today in Finland, who makes the best paper in the world,the paper industry is the biggest in the land.New paper making machines are very big,and they can make paper very fast.
The biggest machine can make a piece of paper(3)________________________________
