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专题05 科技发明创造（二）18篇 一、阅读单选 （2023上·湖南常德·九年级统考期中）Tea bag drinking is most Westerner’s favorite way of drinking tea. Do you know how it came about? The tea bag was invented in 1980 by Thomas Sullivan, an American tea seller. He was sending out free tea in silk bags for people to try. People put the bags together with the tea leaves into the cup and added hot water. The tea tasted good and people thought it was easy to clean the cup. They were not happy when Sullivan started sending them loose (散的) tea again. Sullivan realized that he had a hot new thing in his hands, and he built a machine to pack the bags. As tea bags became popular they were changed from silk to gauze (薄纱) and later paper. In 1952, Lipton Tea made the tea bag even more popular with its invention of the four-sided tea bag. Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK, and today 85% of the tea in the UK is packed in paper bags. However, many people still prefer loose-leaf tea. This is because some tea companies put not very good tea in their tea bags. But for most drinkers tea bags are still the easy tasty way to go. 1．Who invented tea bag? A．Lipton. B．Thomas Sullivan. C．An English tea seller. 2．The underlined part “Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK” means in the UK ________. A．Tea bags soon became popular B．Tea bags surprised everyone very much C．Tea bags kicked (踢) the loose-leaf out of the market 3．The material of the tea bag is usually ________ now. A．silk B．gauze C．paper 4．What can be the best title for this passage? A．The invention of tea B．The history of tea bags C．The way of drinking tea （2023上·湖南常德·九年级统考期中）Every school day, we use schoolbags to carry a lot of our things to school. They are a big part of our lives. But have you ever thought about the history of the schoolbag? In the Han Dynasty (朝代), students in old-style private schools used bamboo boxes to carry books to school. People consider the bamboo boxes to be the earliest schoolbags. There are usually two or three layers (层) in the box. Kids p