1. M5 Listening

2. Listen to the passage. 注 : 另附 word 文档。 点击此处链接

3. Listen again and fill in the blanks. China has given the world many important _________. To give an example, it is the country in which ___ was first invented. Silk was made there as long ago as _____ ___. Chinese farmers grew mulberry leaves _______ they knew that a certain kind of caterpillar ate them. The Chinese did not tell ____ _________ how silk was made and other countries paid a lot for this soft, strong material. silk 3200 BC inventions because other countries

4. Su Song was an eleventh century monk about _____ very little is known. However, we do know that in ____ ____ he invented the first real _____. For the first time ever, it became possible to ___ ___ ____. In the 1950s a copy was built and ___ _____ can be seen today in Beijing. 1092 AD clock the time whom tell this copy

5. They say that a man called Cai Lun made _____ from the bark of a tree in about ___ ___. If so, he is a man of whom China can be _____. Paper was a very important invention because it was cheap and people could _____ ___ buy it. Before that time, writers had used expensive materials such as silk. The invention was immediately _________. However, paper did not spread to other countries for another ____ years. paper 105 AD afford to proud successful 500

6. _______ was invented in China as early as ____ ___. The book in which printing first appeared was called The Diamond Sutra. With printing, it became possible to produce many copies ___ ____ ____ _____. In 1041 AD, a chemist called Bi Sheng invented a type of print that could _____. It was not until 1454 that the first book was printed in _______. Printing 868 AD move at the same time Europe

7. The first time that we hear of a real ___________ is in a Chinese book of ____ ____. This toothbrush could clean teeth _______ and ____. The toothbrush only reached Europe in the seventeenth century, when it quickly became very ________. toothbrush 1498 AD quicklywell popular