What you give your relatives and friends can help you know yourself better．Also, what they give you can tell you something about their personality．Most gift－giving(and getting)shows nothing more than the spirit of love and friendship．But it is possible to form some connections between the kinds of things brought and the people who buy them．Here is a guide to who gives what and why．
The clothes you wear tell something about your personality．They tell the world not only how you want to be seen but how you see yourself as well．When someone gives you something to wear that agrees with your self-image, they’re saying, “I agree with you．I like you the way you are．” Such a gift should be taken as a form of compliment(赞美)．On the other hand, a gift of clothing that doesn’t match your personality could be an insult(侮辱)to your character．
Making something by hand has become the exception in many countries today．If you receive a homemade gift, you’re lucky．It may not be made perfectly, but it will show a certain quality of love．They’ve given time and emotion, two important characteristics of being creative．
A person who thinks of food when thinking of gifts is a good example of what human warmth means．Whether you give a box of chocolate, a bag of oranges, or a ball of cheese, all carry the same message of comfort and support．
People who give books as gifts either like reading or would like everyone to think they do．If you happen to receive a large heavy book, its giver may be much more interested in the way things appear than in the way they actually are．Of course, reading is a way of new things．Giving a book can be a way of sharing a feeling or newly learned meaning．The giver is probably trying to say to you what the book said to him．
(1)
The first paragraph is written mainly to tell readers that ________．
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the gifts you give can help you understand yourself better than any other way
B．
there is a certain relationship between the gifts and the people who give them
C．
the gifts you receive help you learn your personality
D．
between relatives and friends a gift may show friendship and love
(2)
A person who likes the self-image of another person will give the latter a gift ________．
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A．
fashionable and expensive
B．
made at home by himself
C．
that agrees with the personality of the receiver
D．
that matches the character of the giver
(3)
If you give a large book as a gift, it may show that ________．
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A．
you enjoy reading and will be successful in writing
B．
the receiver is interested in reading and hopes to be a writer
C．
you want to share with others a certain feeling
D．
you are more interested in the appearance than in its contents
(4)
What kind of gifts would people give if they want to show their love toward others?
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
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