LEVELS

3–5

En

KEY STAGE

2

2008

English test

Spelling TestThe Silk Trade

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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.

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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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