Question

     It’ s not just women who wear skirts. Men can wear them,too. In Scotland,men wear a kind of skin called a kilt. The kilt is their national (国家的) dress and an important part of their tradition (传统) .

      A kilt is a coloured skirt reaching down to the knees (膝盖) . It has checks (格子) on it with different colours,like red or blue. Each family in Scotland has its own colours.

How did the Scots start to wear kilts? There are many stories about it. One story is that the kilt was invented (发明) in the 1720s by an English factory (工厂) owner,Thomas Rawlinsoru Rawlinson had a lot of Scottish workers in his factory and he thought their clothing got in the way of their work. So he cut their long clothes into a shorter skirt.

      Today,most Scotsmen see kilts as formal (正式) dresses. They usually only wear them at weddings or big dinners. There are only a. few men who still wear a kilt every day. Scots also wear kihs in parades when they play their traditional musical instrument (乐器) ：bagpipes. The army still has kihs as the dress uniform (制服) ，but they no longer wear them to fight (打仗) .

() 1. A kilt is .

() 2. In Scotland,different families have different  .

   A. colors   B. checks Q rules   D. shapes

() 3. What does “got in the way of” in the third paragraph mean?

   A. 到达   B. 得到   C. 在路上   D. 妨碍

() 4. Wlien do Scotsmen wear kilts?

   A. At weddings. B. At big dinners. C. In parades. D. All of the above.

() 5. The story mainly tells us .

   A. things about Scotsmen's traditional kilts

   B. how to wear kilts

   C. when to wear kilts

   D. Scotsmen's important tradition

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