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LEVELS
3–5
En
KEY STAGE
2
2008
English test
Spelling TestThe Silk Trade
Teacher’s version
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Silk is a fabric which consider to be a
material. It is incredibly soft and
to touch and is used to make
expensive of clothing. The Chinese
first made silk in approximately 3000 BC.
When silk was first it was reserved
for the use of the Emperor of China.
Only his close relatives and the highest dignitaries were given
to wear silk. Gradually, silk came
into more general use and men and
women began to wear it as well.
It may seem , but silk was also put to
industrial use by the Chinese. It was used to make parts of
musical instruments, fishing lines and even an
kind of paper, called rag paper.
The Silk Trade
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Silk became , desired by other
countries and was used as a to
trade with. From India to Italy, the exchange of silk for other
goods, such as pomegranates and grapevines, was
.
For centuries travelled the route
known as ‘The Silk Road’. It linked the East to the West, and
gave the for the trading of a variety
of goods and ideas.
Silk production in the world has doubled
the last thirty years, silk being replaced
by artificial for some uses. China
one of the principal exporters of silk,
and with Japan is for over half of
the silk that is manufactured in the world today.
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