<span><span>The best sentence that would summarize the general idea of the article is: For many centuries, people who spoke a variety of different languages tried to figure out the meaning of hieroglyphs. <span>
</span></span><span>This general thought summarizes the whole idea of the passage and gives a clear conclusion on what is being achieved in the story. </span></span>
(0) the correct word is a preposition that we use when we compare two things, which is between.
(19) No word is needed since the verb robs in the sentence only needs a direct object, which is bits of your life.
(20) the correct word that goes with into is divided. It indicates that we can separate something amongst things, in this case, into two kinds of people.
(21) The preposition "from" indicates a specific location as a starting point that the person uses to move to another location. He moves from place A to place B.
(22) the verb met is used as part of a conditional form that indicates that something is possible to happen in the future.
(23) The quantifier 'any" has to follow a noun, which in this case is the schedule, and it is indicating that there is no specific schedule. All of them can be modified.
(24) the correct word is the adverb why since it is asking for the reason for something.
(25) The subject in the sentence is they, as we want to refer to the same group of people. We use the reflexive pronoun themselves.
(26) We need to use the word caught to express that we have a virus in ourselves, as when we caught a cold, we also caught a virus.
(27) the adverb "as" is comparing two similar things.
