题目内容
History: Potatoes came from South America. We know that the people of Peru were eating potatoes
as long as 2,000 years ago.
Potatoes were not widely grown in Europe (欧洲) until the early 19th century.
Production: The first chip factory in Britain was opened in the early 1900s by Frank Smith. For about
50 years, Smith's Chips were the only ones that you could buy. Potatoes are cut, cooked in vegetable oil
(油), dried and packed. It takes only 12 minutes to turn a potato into a bag of chips.
Chips are the most popular snack (零食) in the UK. Around 8,500 million bags are sold every year.
Each person eats 3.5 kg every year.
Making potato chips in South America
Potatoes are grown in the mountains of South America. This is how the village people make their own
potato chips.
A. At harvest (收获) time, the villagers dig up the potatoes and bring them into the village. The potatoes are
put on the ground in the middle of the village.
B. The villagers walk all over the potatoes and flatten (弄平) them. They do this every day and keep on doing
so for five days.
C. While they are out in the open, the potatoes are dried in the sun and in the cold night air, the potatoes are
left on the ground.
D. After five days, the chips are ready and are put into strong bags. The potato chips are kept in the food
store until winter.
After reading the steps above in making potato chips, please match them to the pictures below.
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Mr. King is a tall and strong man. He teaches P.E. in a middle school. He wears a long beard(胡子)and takes good care of it.
It was Sunday yesterday. There was a big football match of the year on the playground in the centre of the city. Mr. king likes the game very much and of course he was going to watch it. With his friends' help he got a ticket a few days ago.
After breakfast he hurried to the bus stop, but a lot of people were waiting there. A bus came and he hardly got on. There were plenty of people in it and it was difficult for them to put their feet. He had to grip(抓住)a back of the chair. At the next stop a boy got on the bus. He was short and couldn't grip anything. Suddenly the bus stopped and the boy hardly fell onto the floor. He looked around and saw Mr. King's beard and grip it. The man found it at once and called out, "Let go of(松开)my beard, boy!"
"Are you going to get off, sir?" asked the boy.
【小题1】Mr. King is a ___.
| A.player | B.runner | C.teacher | D.driver |
| A.he teaches P.E. in a middle school | B.he likes football very much |
| C.he had already got a ticket | D.he didn't go to work yesterday |
| A.he had drunk too much | B.the bus was too small |
| C.he got on the bus too late | D.it was very crowded in the bus |
| A.he was afraid to fall again | B.he wanted to make the man angry |
| C.he hoped the man to find a seat for him | D.he hoped the man to get off soon |
| A.the boy would pull him down | B.the boy would hurt his beard |
| C.the boy could be hurt again | D.the boy would borrow his ticket |
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A beautiful and very successful actress was the star for a new musical show. Her home was in the country, but she didn’t want to go back there every night, so she bought an expensive house in the center of the city, got some beautiful furniture and got a man to paint the rooms in new colour.
It was very difficult to get tickets for her show in the evening, because everyone wanted to see it. So she decided to give the painter two of the best seats. She hoped that this would make him work better for her. He took the tickets without saying anything, and she heard no more about them until the end of month, when she got the painter’s bill. At the bottom of it were these words: “Four hours from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. watching Miss Hall sing and dance: 3 pounds,” with this note: “Before 5:00 p.m. I get 10 shillings (先令)an hour and after 5:00 p.m. 15 shillings.”
1.The actress bought a house in the center of the city because .
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A.she liked to live in the busiest place |
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B.she didn’t like to live in the country |
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C.she wanted to work harder than before |
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D.she didn’t want to live in old house |
2. In order to make the painter work better for her, the actress .
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A.gave him two tickets for her show |
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B.sang and danced for four hours |
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C.decided to give him 3 pounds |
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D.invited him for a big dinner |
3. The actress got the painter’s bill .
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A.to ask for the money of his painting work |
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B.to ask her to pay for his watching her show |
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C.in which he showed his thanks for the tickets |
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D.in which he expressed his dissatisfaction |
4.It can be learned from the text that one pound is shillings.
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A.10 |
B.12 |
C.15 |
D.20 |
5.What kind of man was the painter?
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A.He was a careful man. |
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B.He was a poor man. |
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C.He was not friendly to others. |
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D.He knew little about music and dance. |