Passage 1 Passage 2
Which idea from Passage I would the
author of Passage 2 MOST LIKELY disagree
with?
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The Importance
of the Printing Press
Without a doubt the invention of the
printing press in the fifteenth century was
the most influential technological
innovation in history. The printing press
replaced carved wooden blocks with
moveable metal type As a result printing
books became much faster, cheaper,
and easier. Books became widely
available and affordable in a way that
they had never been before
With books more accessible people had
more reason to learn to read. Literacy
Computers built on the more revolutionary
advances brought about by the printing
press
The printing press was responsible for a
dramatic rise in the number of people who
could read.
Technology is most helpful when it is easy to
use
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