珠珠、丽莉MBA英语阅读理解真题黑体词汇复习一.docVIP

珠珠、丽莉MBA英语阅读理解真题黑体词汇复习 1997年阅读真题 Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage 1 : To us it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains. But actually the umbrella was not invented as protection against rain. Its first use was as a shade against the sun. Nobody knows who first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably the first to use it were the Chinese, way back in the eleventh century B.C. We know that the umbrella was used in ancient Egypt and Babylon as a sunshade. And there was a strange thing connected with its use: it b