三、短文填空
The clothes in different colours we wear today are made by machines. But what did ancient people do if they wanted to wear something 1.______ (colour)? Tie-dye (扎染) was a way to do this.
More than 1 000 years ago, the Bai people in Yunnan 2.______ (use) tie-dye to dye their clothes. Then this skill became so popular that people gave tie-dye clothes to the emperor (皇帝) 3.______ gifts.
To tie-dye, you need to first use tools to tie or clip (夹住) the cloth. The folded (折叠的) cloth is then 4.______ (put) in dye. The Bai people 5.______ (usual) make blue dye from a plant. As the cloth is folded, some parts become dark blue, while other parts have a lighter colour. When you unfold (展开) the cloth, you will see beautiful patterns (图案).
In the 1960s, tie-dye became 6.______ fashion trend (趋势) in the US. People tie-dyed T-shirts and jeans in imaginative ways. Many children in the US still learn to tie-dye.
At a recent famous fashion show, an 7.______ (Italy) designer surprised people with tie-dye 8.______ (dress). Tie-dye is like an experiment (实验). People cannot imagine the patterns of the cloth 9.______ the cloth is unfolded. There is no doubt that the tie-dye trend has never really 10.______ (go) away.
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四、完形填空
There are purple clothes, purple handbags, purple bicycles, purple furniture, even purple computers! So purple is one of the most 1 colours today. But in the past, purple was a very expensive and unusual colour. Let’s take a look at the rich 2 of the colour purple.
During the time of the Roman Empire, it was very 3 to make purple dye(染料). The dye came from sea snails(海螺). But 10 000 dead sea snails got you just one gram of purple dye, 4 a very bad smell!
At that time, this purple dye was called Tyrian purple, and it was the preferred colour of emperors (皇帝). In 16th-century England, purple was 5 for the king’s family members. Ordinary(普通的) people were not 6 to wear the colour.
In 1856, William Perkin, an 18-year-old science student, noticed something strange while doing an experiment(实验). The chemicals(化学用品) he used to clean his instruments 7 with the chemicals he used in his experiment and produced a bright purple colour. William was surprised and wondered 8 it would be a perfect way to make purple. He did the experiment again. It really worked! This discovery(发现) 9 Perkin to start a company using this chemical mixture to make purple dye. The dye was much 10 than sea snail dye. Thanks to Perkin, now anyone can afford to wear purple clothes.
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