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every interesting thing he found. But there was one thing which he found the most interesting. In his diary
Thomas wrote, "When the Italians eat meat, they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands,
because people do not always have clean hands."
Before leaving for England, Thomas Coryate bought a few forks.
At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the invention to his friends. When the steak (牛排) was
brought out, he took out a fork and began to eat as they did in Italy.
Everybody looked at him in surprise. When he told his friends what the fork was, they all wanted to
take a good look at the strange thing. All his friends said that the Italians were very strange people
because the fork was not easy to use at all.
Thomas Coryate tried to prove (证明) that his friends were wrong. He said it was not nice to eat
meat with one"s fingers because they were not always clean.
Everybody got angry at that. Did Mr. Coryate think that people in England always had dirty hands?
And weren"t the ten fingers we had enough for us?
Thomas Coryate wanted to show that it was very easy to use the fork. But the first piece of meat he
took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to laugh and he had to take the fork away.
People in England began to use forks only fifty years later.
A. He wanted to surprise his friends.
B. He believed that it was not nice to eat meat with fingers.
C. Forks were beautiful.
D. He wanted to make business selling forks.
2. Why did everybody look at Thomas when he began to eat like the Italians?
A. They believed that was bad manners.
B. Nobody ate meat with hands in England.
C. Everybody thought it was an amazing invention.
D. Nobody had seen a fork before.
3. People were _____ when Thomas said that they shouldn"t eat meat with their fingers.
A. unhappy
B. sorry
C. sad
D. worried
4. The first piece of meat fell to the floor when Thomas took it with the fork because _____.
A. the fork was very difficult to use
B. the fork was bad
C. Thomas could not use it quite well
D. the steak was too hard
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______(publish) to mark(纪念) the great Games. The first stamps marking the opening 2.__________
(come) out on January 25, 1932 in the United States for the 3rd White Olympics. From then on, 3.______________(publish) stamps during the Winter Olympics became a rule. During the 4th Winter Olympic
Games, some special stamps 4.__________(publish) in Germany in November of 1935. The five rings
of Olympics 5.__________ (print) on the front of the sportswear. It was the first time that the symbol
6.__________(appear) on the stamps of the Winter Olympics.
Early kites may have been simple flat shapes such as leaves. Later, kite designs improved as people
discovered how to put lightweight coverings over frames. Silk and paper are lightweight materials that
were invented in China. China is the earliest known center of kite making. Chinese kites date back (追溯)
at least 2,000 years.
The first Chinese kites may have been used by armies, perhaps as signals. As time passed, kites took
on other uses. They were flown during special ceremonies and for sport. Then there were kite-flying
holidays, such as the one held on the ninth day of the ninth month. According to legend (传说), that was
the day a family went kite-flying on a hilltop. Returning to their house, they saw that it had collapsed (倒塌). Kite-flying had saved their lives!
After a while, travelers and traders spread kite-flying from China to Japan. Before long, Japanese kite-
flying took on a new purpose. Kites flew to celebrate happy things and good luck. Soon, kite-flying
reached many other Asian countries. In each land, kites were designed for ceremonies and sport.
Later, knowledge of kites traveled west, to northern Africa, to Europe, and finally to America. There
may have been early kite inventors in these lands, but their creations did not spread as widely as the kites
of Asia.
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2. What lightweight materials for kites were invented in China?
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3. Which country is the earliest known center of kite making, China or Japan?
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4. What were kites used for in China?
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5. What were kites used for in Japan?
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