You need a photo ID, your instructor's name, a pencil or pen, a calculator, etc.
2.How will I know about time limits?
Students will be informed of any testing time limits, and notified when time is up.
3.If I have my books or backpack, does the Test Center have a place to store them while I'm testing?
Yes.Students will be asked to leave all books, backpacks, purses and any other personal items in a lockable storage room.
4.The only time I can take a test is during lunch.Can I eat my lunch while I am testing?
No food or drink are allowed in the Test Center.
5.I conduct business via a pager(寻呼机)or cell phone.Will I be allowed to use them in the Test Center?
No.all pagers and cell phones must be turned off before entering the Test Center.There are other students testing who may be distracted by these devices.
6.If I need to borrow more scratch paper(草稿纸)am I allowed to borrow from another student in the Test Center?
Ask the teacher and more material will be given.Talking is not permitted in the Test Center.You will give all scratch paper to the teacher at the end of the test.
7.If I start a test but don't finish it, can I come back the next day to finish it?
If you have prior(在先的)arrangements with your instructor you may continue a test the next day.Students are expected to complete their test before closing time of the Test Center.Depending on the test, most tests will not be given within one hour of closing time.
(1)
When you take a test in the Test Center, all of the following are forbidden EXCEPT ________.
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 ________.
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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