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　　What do you think of British people and American people? You might think that there are no differences between the people in the two countries．After all they speak the same language, don’t they? But if you ask a British or an American person．The differences are quite great．

　　What do British people think Americans are like? The British think Americans are very strange．They make a lot of noise and they laugh too loudly．They are rich．and they only think about money．But the British do say that Americans are kind, friendly people．They are happy to help you if you are in trouble．

　　What do Americans think of the British? Well, they think the British are cold and very unfriendly．They are not interested in success or in making lots of money．They think Britain is the best country in the world．They look down upon other countries．But Americans say that the British are quite good workers．They are brave and honest．And in time of trouble they face difficulties happily．

　　You can see that these ideas can cause misunderstanding between the British and Americans．But when American and．British people become friends, they usually find things are not as bad as they expected．

(1)

What does a British or an American person think of the differences between British and American people?

[　　]

A．

Their differences are very small．

B．

The differences are very great．

C．

There are no differences between them．

D．

Some people think there are, but some people don’t think so．

(2)

What do the British think Americans are like?

[　　]

A．

They are strange but friendly．

B．

They are poor．

C．

They are rich but unfriendly．

D．

They are happy in trouble．

(3)

What do Americans think of Britain?

[　　]

A．

They think Britain is the best country in the world．

B．

They think Britain is the strongest in the world．

C．

They think Britain is the most beautiful in the world．

D．

They don’t think it is as good as America．

(4)

When the British meet with trouble, ________．

[　　]

A．

they are frightened

B．

they are glad

C．

they ran away

D．

they ask for help

(5)

The American and British people usually get along quite well ________．

[　　]

A．

when misunderstanding is caused between them

B．

once they become friends

C．

after they fight

D．

when they help each other

答案：1．B;2．A;3．A;4．B;5．B;
解析：

(1)

根据第一段最后一句可知英国人或美国人认为他们之间的差异是相当大的。

(2)

第二段提出英国人认为美国人是奇怪而友好的。

(3)

根据第三段的第四句话可知。

(4)

根据第三段的最后一句可知。

(5)

根据文章最后一句话可知。


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　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

(1)

The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

[　　]

A．

it made Christive evil

B．

it was the apple of Eden

C．

it came from a forbidden land

D．

it was religiously unacceptable

(2)

What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

[　　]

A．

The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

B．

There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

C．

The tomato was still refused in most western countries

D．

Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

(3)

What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

[　　]

A．

To manke imself a hero

B．

To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

C．

To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

D．

To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

(4)

What is the main purpose of the passage?

[　　]

A．

To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

B．

To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

C．

To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

D．

To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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