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        It has been more than two thousand years since we began to use an umbrella on rainy days. However, people often felt it not convenient to hold an umbrella while working. Then the rubber (橡胶) raincoat (雨衣) was invented by an Englishman named Macintosh in 1823.
       In 1492, Columbus, a well-known Italian voyager (航行者), discovered the New World―the Americas. He brought a lot of things to Europe from South America. Rubber was one of them, but people didn’t know the use of rubber at that time. In 1770, people found that the rubber could be used as erasers.
        Macintosh was a worker in an eraser factory in Scotland. One day he spilled (洒出) the rubber liquid (液体) over his clothes carelessly when making erasers. He was too busy to clean it and went back home wearing the dirty clothes. On the way home, it rained heavily. Having no umbrella, Macintosh had to run home quickly. When he got home, he took off the wet clothes. To his surprise, the area of the clothes with rubber wasn’t wet. “Why not make a rubber raincoat” Macintosh thought. The next day he brushed the rubber liquid all over a coat. He wore the “rubber coat” on rainy days and took a walk in the field to test if it could really keep off the rain. Surprisingly, the clothes inside the “rubber coat” weren’t wet at all. The rubber raincoat was created in this way by chance.
       The rubber raincoats soon appeared on the market. However, they were sticky (黏的) in summer and hardened in winter. Year after year, people kept on improving the raincoats. Today raincoats are widely used in our daily life.
1．The rubber raincoat was invented by __________.

A．a Chinese

B．an Italian

C．an Englishman

D．an American

2．Why did Macintosh wear the “rubber coat” on rainy days?

A．To show his nice “rubber coat”.	B．To sell it to a farmer.
C．To test if it could keep off the rain.	D．To go to work in the field.

3．Which of the following is TRUE?

A．Macintosh worked in a market in the Scotland.

B．The rubber raincoat was created by accident.

C．The first rubber raincoat was sticky in the winter.

D．The umbrella was invented after the rubber raincoat.