Fill in the Blanks (Reading & Writing)

Before the invention of the printing press, books were copied by hand, a process that could —consumespendwasteoccupy months of a scribe's labour for a single volume. Johannes Gutenberg's use of movable metal type in the fifteenth century allowed identical pages to be —reproducedrepeatedrecoveredrestored rapidly and cheaply. This innovation is widely credited with —acceleratingescalatingelevatingadvancing the spread of literacy across Europe, since texts no longer had to remain —confinedcontainedrestrictedreserved to a wealthy few.