It was later improved by the Roman's and this alphabet is now used (38)

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
When people first began to write, they did not use an alphabet. Instead, they drew small pictures to (34)______ the objects they were writing about. This was very slow because there was a different picture for every word. The Ancient Egyptians had a (35)______ of picture writing that was called hieroglyphics. The meaning of this writing was forgotten for a very long time but in 1799 some scientists discovered a stone near Alexandria, in Egypt. The stone had been there for over a thousand years. It had both Greek and hieroglyphics on it and researchers were finally able to understand (36)______ the hieroglyphics meant.