问答题 Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be rend to you four times. During the first reading, which will be read at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third rending, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be read at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 2 minutes to check through your work once more.

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Have you ever wondered where soap came from? / We use it every day for all kinds of things./Cleaning ourselves, washing clothes, and dishes./ But this idea of cleanliness we have in our society today is no new thing. / The origin of soap could be found in an old ancient Roman legend./ There was a mountain on which animals were sacrificed,/ and the rain washed a mixture of their fat and ashes/down into the clay soil in a river. / Women .who would wash in this fiver found/that this clay-like mixture cleaned their wash better/and took a lot less effort. / It is recorded that the history of soap/dates as far back as 2800 B. C. / where a soap-like substance was found in clay.