HSPT Language Skills Question of the Day

<u>1</u> Before the printing press and moveable type were in use, copyists had to spend a great deal of time hand-printing books. <u>2</u> This made books time-consuming to produce, relatively rare, and very expensive. <u>3</u> Books printed using a printing press relied not on human writers to spell out their messages, but on arrangements of metal or wooden blocks with letters on them. <u>4</u> Printing a book was much faster than hand-copying it.

The following sentence would make the most sense if added to the paragraph at which of the following locations?

"These blocks are known as 'type.'”