题目内容
As a kid, I can remember going to the supermarket and grabbing any random cardboard carton of eggs off the shelf. I would run them home (top speed!) to my mother because they were usually going into a delicious coffee cake or batch of corn bread. Times have changed. Cage-free? Organic? Brown? White? Omega-3s? Help! Here are some tips to help you figure out which eggs you should be eating:
◇Brown or white? In fact, color is simply an indication of the particular type of hen. Find the freshest egg with the most flavor and let color be a secondary concern.
◇Extra Omega-3s? Omega-3 eggs come from a hen whose diet has added flaxseed (亚麻籽), which produces an egg containing an average of 225 mg of Omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin E. The countless health benefits for humans make these eggs a tempting purchase. My opinion? Eat a piece of fresh fish — salmon or sardines or Atlantic mackerel, for example — and get a pure dose of Omega-3’s. Let eggs be eggs.
◇Does your egg need exercise? Cage-free and free-range eggs are from hens raised without the limits of a cage, though they may or may not have spent much time outdoors. Organic eggs are from hens that are raised with the following approach: their feed must meet organic standards, they must be raised with sympathy, kindness and understanding, and they must be given access to the outdoors. Hey, happier hens do lay tastier eggs.
◇Does local make a difference? Nothing is better than local eggs. They may have a feather or two stuck to them or a slightly imperfect shape and they may or may not be certified organic; however, they have one quality I prize: I know exactly where my food came from and how it came to be! In some cases I can even ask the farmer when the eggs were laid and what they were fed. At $2.20 for a dozen large eggs and all the information I could want about my food, I call it a bargain! I refrigerate the eggs the minute I return from the market.
1. The author seems to think highly of the local eggs just for their _______.
A. colour B. shape C. exercise D. quality
2. The underlined sentence “let color be a secondary concern” (Paragraph 2) mostly means _______.
A. colour really matters a lot B. colour isn’t so important
C. colour indicates its flavour D. colour is as important as its flavour
3. We can infer from the passage that ________.
A. the author doesn’t like local eggs very much
B. we should choose the eggs with our favorite color
C. cage-free hens are happier and lay tastier and healthier eggs
D. Omega-3 eggs are from eggs which have eaten fish like salmon
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完型填空(共20小题;每小题1.5分,满分30分)
When I was 14, I was hired for an after-school job selling subscriptions (征订,订阅) to my hometown paper, the Houston Post. I was sent to some of the city’s worst neighborhoods to “beg” door-to-door. Even though I was often moving around after dark in bad areas __36__ for garage apartments, I was __37__ for the work.
It was a __38__ because people didn’t like a stranger knocking on their door, __39__ a kid trying to get them to buy something. On one ___40__, a man shut his door heavily in my face and __41__, “I don’t want your damn paper.” I __42__ myself to knock again and was able to tell him how great the paper was. I __43__ selling him a subscription. I was soon among the __44__ subscription sellers and, like other successful __45__, was given responsibility for training newcomers.
__46__ this time I started playing the harmonica and guitar. Before long I was playing in a __47__ at barbecues and other events. When I __48__ 18, I focused my __49__ on becoming a professional musician. I never lost ___50___ of this dream. I’m sure my determination came from what I __51___ knocking on strangers’ doors.
That ___52___ helped me in many ways. Early in my music career I was locked in a legal disagreement with a former manager. He ___53__ me to back off, but I
refused.
Having all those doors shut in my face as a kid gave me the ___54___to stand up to this frightening figure. Except this time there was one ___55___: I was the one sayin
g no. And I won.
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