Question

五、任务型阅读。(20分)

   In 1608,an Englishman named Thomas Coryate travelled in Italy. He liked the country and wrote down everything interesting. But he found one thing more interesting than others. In his diary,Thomas wrote ,“When the Italians eat meat,they use small forks. They do not eat with their hands like us because,as they say,people do not always have clean hands. ”

   Before he went back to England,Thomas bought a few forks.

   At home Thomas had a dinner party to show the forks to his friends. When he wanted to eat the steak,he took out a fork as the Italians did in Italy. His friends were bored when they saw this. He told them what the fork was. They all said that Italians were very strange people because the fork was not easy to use at all. Thomas tried to prove (证明) that his friends were wrong,so he began to show that it was easy to use the fork. But the first piece of steak he took with the fork fell to the floor. His friends began to laugh at him and he had to take the fork away.

   However,only fifty years later,people in England began to use forks.

  

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.     

Answer 1

五、 1. early   2. hands   3. forks   4. dirty   5. 1608   6. named/called   

7. returned   8. showed   9. boring/ strange/difficult   10. later