In1608,anEnglishmanwhosenamewasThomasCoryatevisitedItal...

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In 1608, an Englishman whose name was Thomas Coryate visited Italy. He liked the country and noted down every interesting thing he found. _____61___ there was one thing that he found more interesting than the others. Before _____62____ (leave) for England, Thomas Coryate bought a few forks. At home Thomas_____63____ (special) 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 like they did in Italy. Everybody looked at him _____65____ surprise. When he told his friends ____66_____ it was, they all wanted to take a good look at the strange thing. All his friends said that the Italians were very strange people because the fork was very inconvenient. Thomas Coryate tried to prove the opposite. He said ____67____ was not nice to eat meat with one’s fingers because they were not always clean. Everybody got angry ____68____ that. Thomas Coryate wanted to show that it was very easy to use the fork ___69____ the first piece of meat he took with the fork _____70____ (fall) to the floor. His friends began to laugh and he had to take the fork away. Only fifty years later did people in England begin to use forks.

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61. But        62. leaving       63. specially      64. a        65. in 

66. what       67. it            68. at /about/over       69. but      70. fell  

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