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We live ____ by cloth.

We are covered with it at birth, we are made to wear ____ throughout our lives, and shrouds are drawn over our faces in death.

Wearing clothes is a specifically human characteristic, and most human societies use some ____ of clothing.

Textiles—artificial and natural—have shaped and ____ the world we live in.

The history of textiles is almost as old as human civilization, and as time has passed, it has been more and ____ enriched.

Exploring how textiles have changed the world helps us ____ how human civilization has evolved.

It is said that silk production began with the most ____ of things: tea.

Leizu, the young wife of the Yellow Emperor, was sitting under a ____, with a cup of tea in her hand.

A ____ fell from one of the branches directly into the cup.

Naturally, she fished the offending object out, and to her amazement, she found that the ____ had dissolved the coating of the cocoon.

What she held was a ____ lump of soft fibers.

Leizu unraveled it until it stretched from end to end of her garden, over ____ meters.

____, she gathered more cocoons from the tree to unravel, and worked the threads into cloth.

The ____ was a soft and shiny fabric that was cool to the touch.

This Chinese legend is only one of many ____ around the production of silk.

For a ____ time, silk was a material reserved for the Emperor and those very close to him.

Gradually, the restrictions on who could wear and use silk were eased, and more and more people could be seen to wear silk clothing and to dress up their homes with ____ decorations.

Eventually, silk production grew to become quite a ____ industry in China.

Silk became a valuable commodity highly sought after by other countries at a very early time, and it is believed that the silk trade was actually started before the ____ Road was officially opened in the second century B.C.

The threads of silk found in the hair of an Egyptian mummy from around 1070 B.C. are probably the earliest ____ of the silk trade.

The Silk Road significantly ____ the societies and cultures of the regions that it connected.

Not only silk, but spices, rare metals, and exotic ____ were also exchanged on the road.

Religions, artistic styles, and technologies were ____ as well, prompting the development of the civilizations.

On July 21, 1969, 528 million ____ tuned in to watch the first human impression on the surface of the moon.

Apollo 11 was the ____ space mission to take humans to the moon.

One of the greatest challenges for this achievement involved ____ a space suit that could protect the astronauts:

it would ____ to provide the astronauts with adequate air pressure and be able to withstand extreme temperatures—a maximum of 150°C in direct sunlight and a minimum of -233°C.

However, ____ a technology did not exist in 1969.

Eight companies ____ their solutions to NASA.

To everyone’s surprise, the company which won the contract for the Apollo suits wasn’t as ____ as the others and owed its reputation to its product line of female underwear.

The company came up with a softer and more flexible space suit made ____ entirely of fabric.

Each suit was ____ by seamstresses using their hands and sewing machines.

Their skills were acquired from years of making women’s ____.

What made the work so hard was the number of layers and ____ involved.

In the end, each suit worn on the moon was comprised of some ____ thousand pieces of fabric and twenty-one layers of distinct materials, weighing 72 kg at the time.

It remains the most complex space suit to ____ been used to date, and it was the fruit of the craftsmanship of the women skilled in sewing and making underwear, rather than NASA’s technological expertise.

During the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 25 new swimming ____ records were set.

At the competition, a new type of swimsuit was ____ by many swimmers.

It was a full body ____ designed with a material that imitated shark skin.

The suit allowed for better oxygen flow to the muscles, reduced water resistance, and added ____ by trapping air.

In fact, some swimmers wore two or more of these suits at ____ to increase buoyancy.

In total, about 23 out of the 25 world records at the Beijing ____ were set by swimmers wearing this type of suit.

In later competitions, swimmers wearing ____ types of innovative swimsuits continued to break world records.

As a result, in 2009, FINA, the international governing body for water sports, decided to ____ all full body swimsuits.

They also dictated that the fabric ____ to make the suits must be breathable.

“Technology doping” in ____ means the practice of gaining a competitive edge by using technology to improve performance.

This can be against the ____ of fair play.

However, since most sports require equipment of some sort, it can be tricky to determine what is ____ doping and what is not.

Some argue that it is a natural progress coming from scientific development, while ____ claim it undermines human spirit and effort, ensuring that rich athletes have an advantage over poor ones.