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In the 13th century, the famous Italian traveler, Marco Polo, traveled a long way to China.(1)D_____ his stay in China, he saw many wonderful things.(2)O______ of the things he discovered was that the Chinese used paper money.In western (3)c______, people did not use paper money until the 15th century.A Chinese man called Cai Lun(4)i_______ paper almost 2, 000 years ago.He made it from wood.He then put these pieces of paper(5)t________ and made them into a book.
Now paper still comes from trees.If there are no trees, there will be no paper.Every day, people throw away about 2, 800 (6)t______ of paper in our city.This means that we are cutting nearly 48, 000 trees every day.Since it takes more (7) t______ 10 years for a tree to grow, we must start using less paper now.If we don’t, we will not have (8)e ______ time to grow more trees.
So how can we save paper? We can use (9)b_____ sides of every piece of paper. We can (10)c ______ drinks in bottles instead of those in paper packets.We can also use cotton handkerchiefs and not paper ones.Everyone can help to save paper.