Every year, domino enthusiasts congregate to break world records.
熱愛骨牌的粉絲每年齊聚一堂,試圖打破世界紀錄。
When the
click-clack sounds of
shuffling tiles are heard, most people in Asia
automatically think of Mahjong. But there is another game—dominoes—that is a Chinese invention, and it _(1)_ AD 1120.
Initially, dominoes only had 21 tiles, each of which _(2)_ a result of throwing two six-sided
dice. The tiles are mostly made of plastic now, but they used to be carved from
ivory or bone, which _(3)_ the game's
nickname, "bones." The game went through many changes as it
was passed on from China
to India to Europe, and now modern sets of dominoes have seven _(4)_ tiles with
blanks on them.
There are _(5)_ ways to play the game of dominoes, but what they are mostly known for is being
lined up and
knocked down. Every year in the middle of November, domino
enthusiasts from around the world _(6)_ together in the Netherlands to try to
break world records for Domino Day. They methodically line up millions of dominoes front to back and then push one over to start a chain _(7)_. Soon, dominoes are flying left and right as well as up and down ladders, stairs, and
swings.
Every year, Domino Day has to
up the ante with
over-the-top theatrics to keep viewers interested, and 2008 was no _(8)_. The goal of last year's Domino Day was to _(9)_ a world record by
toppling more than 4.3 million dominoes within a two-hour TV program. Eighty-five people from 13 different countries spent a greater part of the year planning this
feat, and then eight weeks
setting up the dominoes. When the program _(10)_, a former Miss Finland was
suspended from the ceiling. She was lowered down to
flick over the first domino, and soon another world record was knocked down.
(A) set (B) exception (C) gather (D) led to (E) commenced (F) reaction (G) represented (H) additional (I) dates back to (J) a variety of
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