Multiple Choice Cloze - Lesson 180
Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase. Some cocks use all sorts of kitchen gadgets to crank some noodles ___(1)___ dough. Then there's Kin Jing Mark, a cooking ___(2)___ at the China Institute, who succeed at making noodles with his hands alone. A visiting chef from China ___(3)___ Mark how to make gragon's beard noddles. Mark stretches and restretches one ___(4)___ of dough until it forms thousands of noodles as fine as a strand of hair. He starts by holding in one hand a lump of dough the size of a softball. He ___(5)___ it into a long strip. Then he ___(6)___ the strip of dough to double its length, loops it around a finger, and pulls, doubling the ___(7)___ of the strip again. Of course, each time he stretches the dough, the number of noodles doubles. ___(8)___ eleven stretches, he has 2,048 noodles. He has been able to stretch a lump of dough as ___(9)___ as twelve times, giving him a grand total of 4,096 noodles. Can you guess how long it takes Mark to make that many noodles? Two ___(10)___.
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