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Keys to Unit 3A Exercises Comprehension of the Text I. Answer the following Questions. Key: 1.China’s gifts to the west include the inventions of silk, tea, porcelain, paper, printing, gunpowder, the mariner’s compass. 2. Because of its high value and light weight. 3. Travelers who had been in China brought it back with them on their return to Western Europe. They and their tea traveled from China over the southern sea route by way of India. 4. The influence of paper upon the whole course of later Western civilization can hardly be overestimated. Without this cheap material, it is unlikely th