An acrobatic(杂技)show：To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the China Acrobatic Troupe(剧团)will present“The Soul of China”, where the seemingly impossible is made real．Chills(寒意)will run down your spine(脊柱)as you watch breathlessly as performers take their art and their bodies to the edge．
Time：7∶30 p.m., September 13-19
Place：Capital Theatre, 22 Wangfujing Dajie, Dongcheng District
Exhibitions
Joint show：A group ink painting exhibition is running at the Huangshicheng Art Gallery in Beijing．About 50 works by 25 young artists including Ge Yun and Yu Yang are on display．
Time：9∶00 a.m.－5∶00 p.m.until September10
Place：Huangshicheng Art Gallery, 136 Nanchizi Dajie, Dongcheng District
Oil paintings：The Wangfung Art Gallery will host a joint show of oil painting by 10 young and middle-aged artists．On display are more than 30 of their latest works, which capture the wondrous variety of life in unique styles．
Time：9∶00 a.m.－4∶00 p.m.until September15
Place：136 Nanchizi Street, Dongcheng District
Literature museum：The National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature offers an in-depth study of the evolution of Chinese contemporary literature from 1919 to 1949．
Beijing rocks：“The Fashion Night of Chinese Rock”is set to bring rock fans out by the thousands next month．Nine Chinese rock bands will perform at the concert, including older generation bands, middle generation and some recent arrivals．The audience will be given a chance to decide what songs they want to hear, which is sure to bring a storm．
Time：September 16
Place：The Olympic Center
Belgium Orchestra(管弦乐队)：La Petite Bande, the Baroque Orchestra of Belgium, will perform in Beijing at the Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities as part of activities across the world to commemorate(纪念)the 250th anniversary of Bach's death．
Time：7∶30 p.m.September 11-14
Place：Grand Theatre of the Cultural Palace of Nationalities
(1)
What do you think of the acrobatic show mentioned here?
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When you watch it, you will certainly feel cold．
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Something strange will puzzle everyone, including scientists．
C．
Unexpected things will make you excited and surprised．
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Even the bravest ones will be too frightened to go on watching．
(2)
The most characteristic thing about the Fashion Night of Chinese Rock is that ________．
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it will let the audience choose the performers and the music
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it is to bring thousands of rock fans out of their homes
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it will certainly cause a rock storm throughout China
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it is to be held in memory of one of the greatest musicians
(3)
Suppose it is September 14th today, how many activities can people choose to attend?
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2．
B．
3．
C．
4．
D．
5．
(4)
On the whole, we can conclude ________．
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people in Beijing prefer modern culture to something traditional
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there are usually more culture actives in September than in any other month
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most of the cultural activities in Beijing are for foreign visitors only
D．
we can enjoy a large variety of cultural activities in Beijing
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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it made Christive evil
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it was the apple of Eden
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it came from a forbidden land
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it was religiously unacceptable
(2)
What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?
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The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down
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There was little pregress in the study of the tomato
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The tomato was still refused in most western countries
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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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To manke imself a hero
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To remove people's fear of the tomaoto
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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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To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato
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To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato
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To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato
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To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence
