单选题
Who brought silk to Europe in the thirteenth century?
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[听力原文]
It is no secret that many famous people including Napoleon, Caesar the Great, and even the queen of England loved silk clothes. In the 13th century, Marco Polo traveled the Silk Road and brought silk to Venice. You can be sure that Italians value this precious material greatly. Some of the designs added into their clothing were copies of paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Today there are no world-class dress designers who have not used Italian cloth materials made of Chinese silk. A famous poet said, "What diamonds do for the hand silk does for the body." Silk has a comfortable and expensive quality. Silk dresses and suits certainly add beauty and style to one"s clothes collection. You want to be considered as successful as those who know what quality is, don"t you? No one who was anyone should be without this special material. Come and buy a silk dress or a shirt today.