广东紫金县2017高考英语语法填空类阅读一轮训练 短文语法填空阅读下列材料,在空白处填上适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。 (2015·河南郑州三模改编) In 1608, Thomas Coryate, an Englishman, visited Italy. He liked the country and noted down every interesting thing __61__ he had found. But there was one thing he found __62__(interesting) than the others. In his diary, Thomas wrote, “When the Italians eat meat, they use small forks instead __63__ their hands. As they say, people do not always have clean hands.” Before __64__(leave) for England, Thomas bought a few forks. At home he gave a dinner party to show the __65__(invent) to his friends. When the servants brought the steak, he took out a fork and began to eat as people did in Italy. Everybody looked at him in surprise. When he told his friends what it was, they all wanted __66__(take) a good look at the strange thing. They said that the Italians were very strange people, for the fork was not very __67__(conveniently). Thomas tried to prove the opposite. He said __68__ was not nice to eat meat with one's fingers because they were not always clean. He wanted to show how easy it was to use the fork. But the first piece of meat he took with the fork __69__(fall) to the floor. His friends began to laugh and he had to take the fork away. |