英语.2篇任务型阅读.一.Paper,like many other things that we use today,was first made in China.It was about 2000 years ago that the Chinese first made paper .China still has pieces of paper that was made as long ago as that .However,Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees but made from the hair-like parts of certain plants .it was a German named Schaeffer who found out that people could make the best paper from trees.When we think of paper ,we think of

英语.2篇任务型阅读.
一.Paper,like many other things that we use today,was first made in China.It was about 2000 years ago that the Chinese first made paper .China still has pieces of paper that was made as long ago as that .However,Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees but made from the hair-like parts of certain plants .it was a German named Schaeffer who found out that people could make the best paper from trees.When we think of paper ,we think of newspapers,books ,magazines.letters ,envelops,writing paper.But there are many other uses.
Paper is very good for keeping you warm .You can wear paper boots in the snow.Nothing could be warmer,The latest use in paper seems to be paper houses,These are not small houses for children to play in ,but real,big houses for people to live in,Now people have made paper boats ,But they dien't make paper planes or cars ,Just wait--they maybe will.
1.The first Chinese paper was made ____________.
2."Nothing could be warmer"means no other boots are warmer than____________.
3.People can now make paper houses___________________.
4._________________________have been made with paper.
5.The author believes____________________one day in the future.
二.Newspapers in Great Britain vary greatly in their ways of carrying the news.There are serious papers for those who want to know about important happenings everywhere,both at home and abroad.There are popular newspapers for those who prefer entertainment to information.
The London newspaper that is best known outside Great Britain is probably THE TIMES.It began in 1785,and has a high reputation for believable news and serious opinions on the news.It calls itself an independent paper,which means that it does not want to give help to a certain paaty.Its stories give the opinions of the editors,not those of the owners of the paper.
Letters to the editor are printed in parts of the newspaper.These parts of THE TIMES are always interesting.Most of the letters are on serious subjects,but from time to time there will be long letters on the subject which is not at all serious,perhaps on a new fashion of dress,or the bad manners of the young people,compared with the manners of thirty years ago.
1.What kind of paper will you buy if you want to get pleasure?____________
2.Why is THE TIMES very famous?__________
3.Whose ideas are talked about in the newspaper of THE TIMES?____________
4.Is it true that letters to the editor are always serious?___________
5.Who are more polite according to the passage ,the young or the old?____________