阅读理解 Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailo
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spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach.
Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many
people"s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does
not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a
mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that
spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted
it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person
is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs-folic acid.
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic
acid that made Popeye strong all along.
1. A good title for this reading passage is______.
A. Popeye the Sailor
B. The Truth About Spinach
C.A Mistake with Numbers
D. Folic Acid Makes You Strong
2. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?
A. They thought spinach made them strong.
B. They thought Popeye was funny.
C. Spinach had a lot of iron.
D. People liked folic acid.
3. A research group told people that spinach______.
A. made Popeye strong
B. was a green vegetable
C. had less iron than other green vegetables
D. had more iron than other green vegetables
4. The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.
A. iron
B. folic acid
C. spinach
D. exercise
5. Folic acid is ______.
A. something in food
B. a vegetable
C. dangerous
D. a certain kind of spinach
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The streets are filled with old chairs, beds, clothes and dishes. In Madrid, Spain, the new year comes in
more quietly. People flock to the main square. Each holds a bag of grapes. As the clock strikes twelve,
the people eat the grapes- one for each stroke.
In Tokyo people eat noodles on New Year"s Eve. This food is said to bring long life. Early the next
morning, some Japanese families climb Mount Fuji. There they watch the first sunrise of the new year.
1. This story is about New Year"s Eve in ____.
A. Italy and Spain
B. China and Japan
C. Japan
D. Italy ,Spain and Japan
2. In Rome, Italy, the streets are filled with old things on New Year"s Eve because _____ .
A. people throw out all the things they no longer want
B. the city has never been clean
C. people want to change back what they want
D. they want to see the sun come up
3. In Tokyo, people eat noodles on New Year"s Eve _____.
A. because they like eating noodles very much
B. so that the daytime could be longer
C. in order that they could live longer
D. though they don"t eat them
job is just to make a mealtime plate look pretty. Poor parsley, valued for its looks, then is thrown away.
Yet parsley is a good source of vitamins and other nutrients. The taste is a little strong for some people,
but others chew on parsley to freshen their breath.
Curly parsley is the king that often ends up being used just for appearance. Flatleaf parsley is easier
to work with for cooking. This kind is often called Italian or French parsley. Do you know about a third
kind of parsley? Hamburg parsley has flat leaves that can be used for the same purposes as other parsley. But hamburg parsley has a large root which is used as a vegetable to add flavor to soups.
Parsley is used in foods such as tabouli, a traditional Lebanese salad and is often served with lamb,
fish and beef dishes. Parsley is a herb if you use just the greens.If the root is used, then parsley is
considered a vegetable.
Some gardeners s
uggest that to get the besttasting parsley, you should plant new seeds every year. You can get parsley to grow faster by pouring warm water over the seeds. Leave the seeds in the water
overnight. Then you can grow them in containers indoors or plant them outside. Parsley grows best when
temperatures are below twentyone degrees Celsius. It likes to grow in sunny places. The seeds need rich
soil. Plant the seeds about fifteen to twentyfive centimeters apart. Water them regularly during the first
month. After that, parsley does not need very much water. You can harvest parsley by cutting most of
the plant or leave more of the plant in the ground for a second crop.
B. people don"t attach great importance to parsley"s value
C. parsley has been widely planted in the world
D. on
ly ancient people used parsley as an additionB. To Parsley"s Regret
C. Parsley
D. The Use of Parsley
B. unbelievable
C. confusing
D. doubtful
B. whether people like parsley
C. how to plant parsley
D. how the author feels about parsley
to say that it has become an international language.
Studying English can make life fun. It enables you to watch American movies, read English
books and listen to English songs. Moreover, as English is an international language, you will be
able to communicate with foreigners when you are on a trip abroad. Traveling will be more
interesting that way.
It is a good idea to make friends with foreigners. In my opinion, it is the best way to improve
your English. In addition, it will bring you a lot of fun and expand your view of the world. If you
make friends with a native speaker, you can practise your spoken English more often, and then
you can communicate with people around the world. You can also become familiar with the
customs and habits of different cultures.
There are some people who are afraid to make friends with foreigners, because they are not
confident about their English. However, many foreigners do not care about grammar. They will
get your key words in the sentence and know the whole meaning. Therefore, it is unnecessary to
be afraid; just go ahead.
In brief, English is so useful to us that we should all learn it.
1.Why does the writer think it necessary for us to learn English?
A. Because he uses it as a second language.
B. Because English has become an international language.
C. Because you can"t make foreign friends if you can"t speak English.
D. Because it will be difficult for you to travel if you can"t speak English.
2.Studying English can make fun in the following ways EXCEPT _____ according to the text.
A. enjoying British or American music
B. travelling abroad
C. attending English parties
D. reading English novels or poems
3.In the writer"s opinion, some people dare not make foreign friends because _____.
A. they are afraid of making grammar mistakes
B. they become shy when they meet foreigners
C. they know little English
D. they seldom speak English with foreigners
4. Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word "expand"?
A. improve
B. deepen
C. enlarge
D. raise
How did language begin? What was the world"s first language? Do all languages come from one
original language? 1 .
In the 4th century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus wrote this account: Psamtik I，an Egyptian
King, wanted to find out what the oldest language in the world was. 2 .He told his servant to find
two newborn babies.When the servant had found them, the king gave them to a shepherd (牧羊人)
and said, “Keep these babies with the goats.Take care of them, but do not talk to them.Listen to any
words that they say.” The king wanted to find out what language the children would speak if they were
left alone.He said, “The first words they speak will come from the original language of the world.”
3 . He told the king who asked his scholars about this word.They told him that the Phiygians,
who lived in an area which is now Turkey, called bread “becos”. The king said, “Then Phiygian is the
oldest language.” Today we know that the king"s conclusion was wrong.We don"t know why the children
said “becos”.
4 . Scholars discovered that many European and southern Asian languages belonged to the same
“family” and that they started from the same parent language, ProtoIndoEuropean.Linguists think that it
had split into several different languages, including Greek and Sanskrit, between 2000 and 1000 BC.
Other languages, such as English and Spanish, developed from later splits.
5 . Two questions that interest linguists are: How does language change? Why does language
change? If you like solving mysteries, historical linguistics may be the job for you.
A. Nowadays, we study the origin of language more scientifically
B. He was talking about this problem with his scholars when he had an idea
C. The King was very kind to his servant and his servant remained royal to him
D. Linguists are the scholars who are very interested in categorizing the language families
E. People have been trying to find the answers to these questions for more than 2000 years
F. One day, while the babies were babbling to each other, the shepherd heard them say “becos”
G. Linguists have classified many language families, and they are still trying to categorize others
on time. If a person is invited to dinner at six thirty,the hostess 2 him to be there at six thirty or 3 a few minutes after. Because she usually does the cooking, she has to time the meal 4 the hot rolls and the
coffee and the meat can be at their best when the guests come. If they are late,the food will not be so 5 ,
and the hostess will be 6 . 7 the guest cannot come on time, he should call his host or hostess on the
phone, give the reason,and tell 8 what time he can come. 9 the situations, guests sometimes bring a
box of candy, a bottle of wine or a bunch of flowers to give to the hostess as a 10 of appreciation.
As guests continue to arrive, it is usually considered polite for the 11 in the group to 12 when a
woman enters the room and continue to stand until she is seated. 13 , most young people and some
groups of elder people 14 stress equality of the sexes no longer observe the custom. A visitor should
be 15 to each situation and follow the lead of the Americans present.
When the guests sit down at a dinner table,it is a 16 for the men to help the ladies by pushing their
chairs under them. However,some Americans 17 do this, so the visitors must notice what others do and
do the 18 . 19 the meal is under way and if the dinner is in a private home,a guest 20 avoid
embarrassment by leaving talk to someone else.