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　　What is the most important day of your life? For many people the answer is your Wedding Day－the day when you marry another person and promise to live together as husband or wife for the rest of your life．

　　Wedding celebrations differ from country to country－in China the bride wears red whilst; in India the wedding can continue for three days．However, in Britain the bride wears white and wedding usually only lasts for one day．

　　In the UK it is possible to get married in a religious or civil ceremony．A religious ceremony takes place in a church．A civil ceremony, on the other hand, can be held in a registry office, in a hotel, or even on a boat!

　　On the day of the wedding the bride and groom are kept separate until the ceremony．It is said to be bad luck if the groom sees the bride in her dress before the wedding．

　　The bride arrives at the ceremony accompanied by her father and bridesmaids．He officially gives her away to her husband．During the ceremony the happy couple exchange vows and give each other wedding rings which they will wear forever．At the end of the ceremony they kiss．

　　Afterwards they go outside where friends and family throw rice or confetti(婚礼中抛撒的五彩纸屑)over them．Then they go on to the reception where there is a lot of food and drink．After the meal the father of the bride and the best man(男傧相，伴郎)make speeches．Then the bride and groom take the first dance．It’s a lot of fun．

　　Finally, at the end of the party the newly-weds leave to go on honeymoon, usually to a very romantic destination．

(1)

What does the underlined word “newly-weds” mean?

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A．

The newly-married couple．

B．

The bride．

C．

The bridegroom．

D．

The best man．

(2)

What can we infer from the passage?

[　　]

A．

Wedding celebrations differ from country to country．

B．

In Britain the bride wears white．

C．

People all over the world pay a great deal attention to the Wedding Day．

D．

In India the wedding can continue for three days．

(3)

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

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A．

People in Britain usually get married in a religious or civil ceremony．

B．

On the wedding day, the bridegroom can’t see the bride in her dress．

C．

The bride’s father will give her away to the bridegroom．

D．

The bride and the bridegroom will take the first dance．

答案：1．A;2．C;3．B;
解析：

(1)

根据文章“at the end of the party the newly-weds leave to go on honeymoon, usually to a very romantic destination．”可知指的是新婚夫妇。

(2)

本题为推断题，需要根据全文来判断，A、B、D三项在文中已经直接给出。

(3)

本题为细节理解题，根据第四段第一句“On the day of the wedding the bride and groom are kept separate until the ceremony．”可知：在仪式前，新郎和新娘是不能见面的。


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　　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 ________．

[　　]

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?

[　　]

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?

[　　]

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?

[　　]

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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