2013届高考英语二轮专题复习阅读能力综合培养训练集(十一)
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Do you know the history of the use of cosmetics(化妆品)? Probably when 26 first painted their faces many thousand years ago, it was for the purpose of 27 their enemies in war. B ut there are records of women in Egypt 28 cosmetics more than four thousand years ago. These women not only painted their eyebrows, they also added a thick dark line under 29 eye, and had 30 kinds of paint for different seasons of the 31 .
Women in ancient Rome used cosmetics. 32 used Egyptian KOHL for darkening the eyelids, powdered chalk for whitening the skin, and a red coloring matter for the cheeks. A rich Roman lady spent