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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What she held was a little ____ of soft fibers.

Leizu unraveled it until it stretched from end to ____ of her garden, over 600 meters.

Intrigued, she gathered more ____ 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 ____ one of many woven around the production of silk.

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

Gradually, the restrictions on who ____ 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 silk decorations.

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

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 Silk Road was officially opened in the ____ century B.C.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

However, such a technology did ____ exist in 1969.

Eight companies presented their solutions to ____.

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

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

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

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

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

In the end, each suit worn on the moon was comprised of some four thousand pieces of fabric and twenty-one layers of distinct ____, 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 ____ swimming world records were set.

At the competition, a new ____ of swimsuit was worn 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 buoyancy by trapping ____.

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

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

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

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

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

“Technology doping” in sports means the practice of gaining a ____ 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 ____ is technology doping and what is not.

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