What is paper made from? When we 1 books or newspapers, we seldom stop and think about the things 2 to make them. 3 paper our lives would be very different. Paper is one of 4 important inventions( 发明 )of all time . The people in Egypt( 埃及 )first used a kind of grass-like plant to 5 paper around five 6 years ago.3000 years later, a Chinese man created a new 7 of paper using pieces of old cloth. Then for sevrral hundred years, people 8 the world had been usingthis Chinese method to make paper. In 1838, a Canadian man invented a 9 method of paper-making usingwood. Today, most of the paper we use is made from 10 .