1. (汉语不同于) many Western languages in that it uses 2. (有含义的汉字) and can stand alone as words. Chinese people invented numerous characters to 3. (代表) ideas,objects or deeds. There is a legend 4. (说) that a man named Cang Jie invented Chinese writing. Some characters 5. (简化)and others have developed from drawings into 6. (标准形式). The pictogram for a mountain was 7. (起初) three peaks together. This became one peak and three lines and 8. (最终变成今天所使用的字体).
答案
1.The Chinese language differs from/is different from 2.meaningful characters 3.represent/stand for 4.saying/that says 5.have been simplified 6.standard forms
7.at first 8.eventually turned into the character used today
