Chopsticks are usually two long,thin pieces of wood or bamboo.They can also be made of plastic,animal bone or metal.Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic.Truly elegant chopsticks might__2__(make)of gold and silver with Chinese characters.Skilled workers also combine various hardwoods and metal __3__(create)special designs.
The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years.People probably cooked their food in large pots, __4__(use)twigs(树枝)to remove it.Over time,__5__the population grew,people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly.
Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which__6__(gradual)turned into chopsticks.
Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius,__7__lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C.,influenced the__8__(develop)of chopsticks.Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and __9__(be)too violent for use at the table.
Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia.In India,for example,most people traditionally eat __10__their hands.
Passage 4 (2016·四川)
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The giant panda__1__(love) by people throughout the world.Chinese scientists __2__(recent) had a chance to study a wild female panda with a newborn baby.She was a very __3__(care)mother.For 25 days,she never left her baby,not even to find something __4__(eat)!She would not let any other pandas come near.She licked the baby constantly to keep it clean.Any smell might attract natural __5__(enemy)that would try to eat the little panda.The mother held the baby in her front paws much the way a human does.__6__it cried,she rocked it back and forth and gave it little comforting pats.The mother continued to care for the young panda __7__more than two years.By that time,the panda no longer needed __8__(it)mother for food.However,it stayed with her and learned about the ways of the forest.Then,after two and a half years,the mother __9__(drive)the young panda away.It was time for her to have a new baby,__10__it was also time for the young panda to be independent.
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