Bananas are the perfect snack.Not only are they sweet and delicious,but they are easy to carry around, so you can take them anywhere.Best of all,bananas provide different things that the human body needed.

Bananas grow best in warm places that get lots of rain.They grow on plants that look like trees.The banana plant,however,is considered a herb rather than a tree because it doesn't have a strong ,woody stem.The plants can grow as high as 30 feet.When they reach their full height,flowers grow out from the stem. These flowers produce bananas.

Two or three times each year,the plants produce fruit.The bananas grow together,which seem like hands.A hand is made up of 10 to 20 bananas.Growers sometimes call bananas fingers.Each bunch(丛)of bananas has about 15 hands,and so a whole bunch may have as many as 200 bananas and can weigh more than 100 pounds.

After about three months,the bananas are ready to be picked.At this point,they still aren't the sunny yellow colour of bananas.Farmers pick them when they're green.That's how they're shipped to stores.They turn yellow along the way and are ready to be sold.

If you love bananas,you've got a lot of company.Americans have been enjoying bananas since the first shipment arrived in the United States in 1876.Today,Americans eat more bananas than any fruit.More bananas are sold than apples and grapes together.Every American eats over 26 pounds of bananas each year!

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1.Growers sometimes call bananas______________

2.According to the bar chart, ___________are the second most popular fruit in America.

3.Why is the banana plant considered a herb rather than a tree?

________________________________________________________.

4._____________________________________________________.

5._______________________________________________________

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In the middle of my home country there are very large places. They are hot and dry land called deserts1.Families live a long way from other people. Sometimes they are the only people for thousands of kilometers.2.

About 65 years ago these people found that using strong radios was a possible way for families living far away to communicate with each other.They decided they could use the radios for school. In this way, children could talk to each other like at school.3.

The children each spent about 30 minutes a day on the radio. They talked to their teacher about their work and difficulties.The teacher designed some exercises and tasks based on what they learned and posted them to the children. After finishing their work, the children sent it back to their teacher to mark. 4. He tried to visit each child twice each year. This was sometimes difficult.The journey was very long and could be dangerous.In addition, the school held camps once a year.The children could all meet each other and shared their learning experience.

5.The government provides families with computers so that the children can use the Internet to talk to their teachers and classmates by e-mail now. The teachers enjoy their work very much because they get to know the children and their families very well. It is an interesting way to learn;don't you think so?

A.The teacher also travelled around the country.

B.All over the deserts are farms and small towns.

C.Children in poor areas can't go to school.

D.These families' children cannot go to school like you.

E.With the development of technology, computers are becoming popular.

F.This was how the first “School of the Air” started.

G.It is impossible to do so.

I sat with my friend in a well-known coffee shop in a neighboring town of Venice. As we_______our coffee, a man came in and sat at a(n)____ table beside us. He called the waiter and placed his_____saying, “Two cups of coffee, one of them there on the wall”. We heard this order with rather interest and observed that he was_____with one cup of coffee but he paid for two. As soon as he left, the waiter_____a piece of paper on the wall saying “A Cup of Coffee”.

While we were still there, two other men entered and ordered three cups of coffee, two on the table and one on the wall. They had two cups of coffee but______for three and left. This time also, the waiter did the same; he put up a piece of paper on the wall saying, “A cup of coffee.” It seemed that this gesture was a_____at this place. However , it was something unique and puzzling for us. Since we had _____to do with the matter, we______our coffee, paid the bill and left.

After a few days, we again had a(n)____to go to this coffee shop. While we were enjoying our coffee, a man walked in. The way this man was dressed did not match the standard nor the atmosphere of this coffee shop. Poverty was___ from the looks on his face.______he seated himself, he looked at the wall and said, “One cup of coffee from the______.” The waiter served coffee to this man with_______and dignity. The man had his coffee and left without paying. We were amazed to watch all this when the waiter_______a piece of paper from the wall and threw it into the dustbin.

1.A. enjoyed B. prepared C. practiced D. bought

2.A. crowded B. open C. empty D. beautiful

3.A. food B. goods C. table D. order

4.A. satisfied B. served C. treated D. awarded

5.A. stuck out B. hid away C. put up D. took out

6.A. paid B. looked C. waited D. asked

7.A. demand B. signal C. custom D. duty

8.A. nothing B. something C. anything D. everything

9.A. wasted B. finished C. missed D. donated

10.A. invitation B. time C. reward D. chance

11.A. obvious B. slight C. serious D. strong

12.A. So B. As C. Unless D. Since

13.A. window B. floor C. wall D. door

14.A. carelessness B. wisdom C. interest D. respect

15.A. brought down B. took off C. kept away D. cut off

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