In1608,ThomasCoryate,anEnglishman,visitedItaly.Heliked...

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  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 more interesting than the others. In his diary, Thomas wrote, “ When the Italians eat meat, they use small forks instead 62._________ their hands. As they say, people don’t always have clean hands.”

  Before 63.___________ (leave) for England, Thomas bought a few forks. At home he gave a dinner party to show the invention to his friends. When the servants brought the steak, he took out 64._________ fork and began to eat as people did in Italy.

  Everybody looked at him inn surprise. When he told his friends what it was, they all wanted 65.____________ (take) a good look at the strange thing. They said that the Italians were very strange people, for the fork was not very 66.___________ (convenience).

  Thomas tried to prove the opposite. He said 67. ____________ was not nice to eat meat with one’s fingers 68. _________ 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.

  Only fifty years later 70 ___________ people in England begin to use forks.

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61.  that    62. of    63. leaving   64. a    65. to take    66. convenient   67. it   68. because/ since/ as    69. fell   70. did

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