Question

About three hundred words in the English language come from the names of people. Almost every one of these words has an interesting story behind it. The word “Sandwich”, for example, is very popular in English. If we want to know the story behind it, we must know something about an English nobleman (貴族) called Sandwich.

Sandwich lived in the eighteenth century. He was rich, but he liked to play cards for money. He often played for 24 hours and did not stop to have his meals. He ordered his servants9傭人） to bring some meat and bread, and he played while eating. He put the meat between two pieces of bread, and he held the food in his left hand while he played with he his right hand. People liked Sandwich’s idea and began to eat bread and meat in this way.

From the name of the man Sandwich, we have the word “Sandwich” today.

根據(jù)首字母填空:

In English about three h    1      words come from the names of people. Sandwich is o     2     of them. It has an i    3      story behind it. Sandwich, in fact, was a rich man in E    4      . Usually he liked p    5      cards for money for twenty-four h     6     . He was so busy that he a    7      his servants to bring him some meat and bread, he put the meat b    8     the two pieces of bread while eating. After that, more and more people ate bread and meat i    9      this way. They called this kind of f   10      “Sandwich”.

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Answer 1

1.hundred   2.one    3. interesting   4.England   5.playing  

6.hours     7.asked  8.between        9.in        10.food