阅读理解。 In south China we eat rice every day. Sometimes we eat it two or three
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lunch and supper. We usually eat it with fish, meat and vegetable.
The Japanese eat rice, too. They also eat a lot of fish. They sometimes eat raw (生的) fi
sh. In Africa,maize (玉米) is the most important food. People there make maize into flour (面粉). From this flour they make different kinds of bread and cakes.
In western (西方的) countries such as Britain, Australia and the U.S.A, the most important food is
bread or potatoes. People there usually make their bread from wheat flour. They cook the potatoes in
different ways. In England the most popular food is fish and chips. Sometimes people cook this food at
home, but usually they buy it at the shop. They eat this food at home, in their work place, in the park or
on the road. People call it "take-away" food.
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2. What is the most important food for African people?
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3. Is England a western country?
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4. Where do people get "take-away" food from?
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5. What is the title (题目) of this passage?
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答案
2. It is maize.
3. Yes, it is
4. Sometimes people cook this food at home, but usually they buy it at the shop.
5 People eat different things in different parts of the world.
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Australia is a southem country. It is in the south of the Earth. June, July and August are the winter
months; September, October and November are spring; summer is in December, January and
February; March, April and May are the autumn months. The north of the country is hotter than
the south.
The east coast has rain all the year round. There are no dry months there. The southeast winds
blow all the year. They bring rain from the sea. There is no much rain on the west side. The southeast
part of Australia has summer rain from the southeast winds. They only blow here in summer.
The southwest part of Australia has winter rain. The west winds blow over the southwest in winter
only. In summer the southwest of the country has no rain. In the north of Australia there is no rain in
winter. The rain comes in summer. The northwest winds bring it.
B. summer
C. autumn
D.winter
B. has summer ram
C. has spring rain
D. has winter rain
B. No,it hasn"t.
C. Yes ,it does.
D. No,it doesn"t.
newspapers and b 4 . But they don"t talk. When you meet E 5 people, you may find they often talk a 6 one thing — the weather. You can say," Nice w 7 for the time of the year!" Somebody may
answer, "B 8 it is a little cold today." You can say, "It will be a bit w 9 soon." T 10 like this, and
the English will think you are friendly.
Ann likes fish and chips. What is your favorite meal at home? Have you eaten food from another
country? Here is some information about some kinds of foods you
might eat. Dumplings are eaten in different ways around the world. Chinese jaozi, Italian ravioli, Jewish
kreplach, and Polish pierogi are kinds of dumplings filled with meat, cheese, or vegetables.
Pizza an international favourite came from the city of Naples, Italy about 700 years ago. Pizza is the
Italian word for pie, so you don"t need to say pizza pie.
Hamburger was
first called Hamburger steak. Later, people just called them hamburgers. Thehamburger was named after the city of Hamburg, Germany.
Frankfurters were named after the city of Frankfurt, Germany. About 1900, an American selling
cooked frankfurters called them hot dogs because they looked like a kind of small dog.
Ice-Cream Cones were first sold at the World"s Fair in St. Louis Missouri, in the USA, in 1904.
A scoop of ice cream was put into a cone. You eat the ice cream; then you eat the cone－nothing left
to throw away.
Sandwiches were named after the Earl of Sandwich, a rich man in England in the 1700s. Wh
ile hewas playing cards, he asked a servant to bring him two pieces of bread with a piece of meat between
them.
This was the first sandwich.
( )2. Pizza is the Italian word for noodles.
( )3. In 1904, the first ice-cream cones were sold at the St. Louis World"s Fair.
( )4. A sandwich has sand in it.
( )5. Another name for a frankfurter is hot dog.
( )6. The Earl of Sandwich lived in England in the 1700s.
rich soil like many other crops. But until four hundred years ago the potato was not known to the
Europeans. But today it"s one of the main foods in Europe. About half of the world"s potatoes are
grown in Europe.
In France the potato was not grown for a long time. Here is a story about Louis. In 1778 he saw
some potato flowers for the first time. He liked them so much that he picked one and put it in his
button hole. He was interested in the flowers not the potatoes themselves.
( )2. The potatoes are grown only in the rich soil.
( )3. Louis was the first man to eat the potato.
( )4. At first the Europeans grew potatoes to eat.
( )5. Louis liked the potato flowers better than the potatoes.
call it "the Ten-thousand-li Great Wall". It is more than 6,000 kilometers. It is 4-5 meters 2 . In most
places, five
horses or ten 3 can walk side by side.When you visit the Great Wall, you can"t 4 wondering how the Chinese were able to build such a
great wall thousands of years ago. 5 any modern machines, it was really very difficult to build it. They
6 to do all the work by hand. It 7 millions of men hundreds of years to build it. The Great Wall has a
history of over two thousand years. The king began to build the first parts of it around two thousand
seven hundred years 8 . Then Qin Shihuang had all the walls joined up. He thought that could keep the
9 out of the country.
Today the Great Wall has become a place of interest. Not only the Chinese people 10 people from
all over the world come to visit it.