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6.To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)have ever cooked up.For them,the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的).So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America,a land mistakenly considered to be Eden,everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion.Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden,the tomato was shut out of the door of Europeans.
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake,a plant that was thought to have come from Hell(地狱).What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots which looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits.Tough the tomato and the mandrake were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit,the general population considered them one and the same,too terrible to touch.
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato,and until the early 1700s most of the Westernpeople continued to drag their feet.In the 1880s,the daughter of a well-known plant expert wrote that the most interesting part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the"introduction of this wonderful new fruit--or is it a vegetable?"As late as the twentieth century some writers still 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 Robert Johnson,and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820,people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead."What are you afraid of?"he shouted."I'll show you fools that these things are good to eat!"Then he bit into the tomato.Some people fainted.But he survived and,according to a local story,set up a tomato-canning factory.

68.The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly becauseD.
A.it made Christians evil
B.it was the apple of Eden
C.it came from a forbidden land
D.it was religiously unacceptable
69.What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?C
A.The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down
B.There was little progress 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
70.What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly?B
A.To make himself a hero
B.To remove people's fear of the tomato
C.To speed up the popularity of the tomato
D.To persuade people to buy products from his factory
71.What is the main purpose of the passage?C
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.

分析 本文主要讲述了番茄在欧洲从刚开始的不被接受,到后来开放了番茄罐头厂的"发展经历".番茄最开始被当做禁果,后来由于Robert Johnson尝试吃番茄,人们才改变了对它的看法.

解答 68.D.细节理解题.根据文章"So when Columbus brought the tomato back from South America,a land mistakenly considered to be Eden,everyone jumped to the obvious conclusion.Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden"可知,欧洲人错误的把西红柿当做禁果,这是宗教不允许的.故选D.
69.C.推理预测题.根据文章"Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato"可知,欧洲仍然忽视番茄."and"一词表示前后文表达的意思应为一致.A项错误.从前文来看.番茄的不被重视是整个西方国家的排斥,而不只是一些西方人.故选C.
70.B.细节理解题.根据文章"What are you afraid of?"he shouted."I'll show you fools that these things are good to eat!""可知,Robert Johnson吃番茄是为了让人们不在害怕.故选B.
71.C.主旨大意题.本文主要讲述了番茄在欧洲的"发展",从刚开始的不被接受,到后来开放了番茄罐头厂,可见人们对它的态度产生了巨大的改变.故选C.

点评 本文是考察学生历史文化类阅读理解文章.这类文章常涉及历史、文化、法制、宗教等方面的文学艺术、发明创造、文化遗产保护、宗教与文化、风俗与习惯、道德与法制、中外文学名著节选、等等.这类材料的命题点往往落在主旨大意题、事实细节题上.

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