题目内容
9.Sweet potato makes a comeback as a popular food (it's healthier,too!)Once considered a fringe(非主流的) food by the US.dinner table mainstream,sweet potatoes are fast becoming popular everywhere from fast food chains to expensive restaurants and the White House table.
Three years ago,the"Wall Street Journal"wrote in a front page article that except for their use in a Thanksgiving dish,sweet potatoes were a wholly uninteresting food.Yet over the past two years,the number of restaurants offering a sweet potatobased side dish has increased 40percent.Food giant ConAgra just spent﹩155million to open the world's first plant devoted entirely to frozen sweet potato products,and US.farmers are planning to harvest a recordsetting 2billion pound crop.
"It's not something we believe is a fashion,"said Andy Johnston of ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston.
According to research conducted by ConAgra,30percent of sweet potato eaters report consuming the vegetable several times per month.Only 12percent eat them only during the Thanksgiving and winter holiday season.
Analysts believe the sweet potato's growing popularity in large part is due to sweet potato fries,which account for the majority of the vegetable's presence in U.S.restaurants.In fact,Google searches for"sweet potato fries"increased 40percent over the past year.
Sweet potatoes have also become popular among more conscious eaters,however,in part because they are high in vitamins and have a low glycemic(血糖的)index in spite of their sweetness.Both Weight Watchers and the South Beach Diet have recommended sweet potatoes,roasted in a little oil rather than fried,and doctors are recommending them for diabetics.
"Within the diabetic community,it's become pretty common knowledge that sweet potatoes are good for you,so there's a great appeal because so many people have diabetes now,"said Chef Michel Nischan,who helps host a TV show for people with diabetes.
56.This passage mainly wants to tell us thatC.
A.American high officials have started to eat sweet potatoes
B.Expensive restaurants have begun to serve costumers with sweet potatoes
C.Sweet potatoes are becoming a popular food in the United States
D.The habit of eating sweet potatoes was formed a long time ago
57.From this reading passage we infer that ConAgraA.
A.is one of the biggest foodmaking companies in the US
B.is one of the richest foodselling companies in the US
C.has asked American farmers to produce more sweet potatoes this year
D.has produced large quantities of sweet potatobased side dishes
58.Which of the following may NOT encourage the sweet potato's popularity?D
A.US restaurants recommend sweet potatoes to their customers as a vegetable.
B.Google searches show more and more people are becoming interested in sweet potatoes.
C.Sweet potatoes are rich in vitamins and low in glycermic index.
D.Sweet potatoes taste very sweet.
分析 本文为健康类阅读,介绍了sweet potato甘薯风靡美国的情况.
解答 56-58 CAD
56.答案C.主旨大意题.根据文章第一段"Sweet potato makes a comeback as a popular food (it's healthier,too!)"及第二段"sweet potatoes are fast becoming popular everywhere"可知,文章要介绍风靡美国的非主流食物--sweet potato,甘薯.故选C.
57.答案A.推理判断题.根据第三段"Food giant ConAgra just spent﹩155million to open the world's first plant devoted entirely to frozen sweet potato products"可以推断,ConAgra是美国的一个食品生产品牌,故选A.
58.答案D.细节理解题.根据倒数第二段"in part because they are high in vitamins and have a low glycemic(血糖的)index in spite of their sweetness"和"doctors are recommending them for diabetics"可知,甘薯的含糖量很低,甚至适用于糖尿病患者,故D选项是错误的.
点评 健康环保类文章可分为三部分:第一部分一般是文章的首段,主要用来提出文章的主题,即文章想要阐述、说明的主要内容;第二部分是文章的主体,可由若干个段落组成,对文章的主题进行展开说明;第三部分是结尾段,对文章的主题进行归纳总结.这类文章多用一般现在时,而且一般多使用客观性词语表述.有时为了强调客观性,也常使用被动语态.
从近几年的考试题来看,科普环保类的文章越来越与人们的实际生活相接近.由于此类文章缺乏故事情节,很多同学对此类文章感到费解.但一般的科普类文章都是就事论事,需要逻辑推理和想象的时候较少,因此此类阅读题也没有同学们想象中的那么难,只要多加训练,就能较好地答题.

A. | to be consumed | B. | to consume | C. | consuming | D. | consumed |
I (37)B what Leo Buscaglia had done with his students in University of Southern California.In one class Leo Buscaglia and his students had made two lists of (38)B,one positive and one negative.Then they (39)A the negative words in the trash and tried to use only the (40)Dwords for one month.They were (41)Cat how much better their lives became just by using words full of (42)B.
I decided to try this as well by (43)Bsomething good to write on each paper my students (44)D.No matter how many mistakes a student's paper (45)A,there was always a (46)D sentence,beautiful thought,or a great idea that I could (47)Bon.I remember glancing over my desk and (48)Csome of the students reading those encouraging words (49)A.It was a joy seeing their eyes shine a little brighter,their (50)C sit up a little straighter,and their learning climb a lot (51)B.
I recently saw one of my (52)D students and we talked for a while.He has got married,and has two children now.As I was saying goodbye,he said,"You know I (53)C have a few of those old papers.I look at them from time to time.I just (54)A my kids have a good teacher like you."I was amazed at the (55)C those few positive words had on his life.
May your own life be forever full of encouraging words in your ears,from your lips and in your heart.
36.A.method | B.ability | C.power | D.approach |
37.A.improved | B.1earned | C.wondered | D.used |
38.A.books | B.words | C.ideas | D.tasks |
39.A.threw | B.collected | C.stored | D.wrote |
40.A.familiar | B.standard | C.common | D.positive |
41.A.curious | B.disappointed | C.amazed | D.confused |
42.A.astonishment | B.encouragement | C.friendship | D.advantage |
43.A.buying | B.finding | C.asking | D.wishing |
44.A.took down | B.put away | C.looked through | D.handed in |
45.A.contained | B.created | C.avoided | D.reduced |
46.A.complete | B.strange | C.simple | D.meaningful |
47.A.agree | B.comment | C.bring | D.depend |
48.A.keeping | B.having | C.seeing | D.1eaving |
49.A.again and again | B.now and then | C.little by little | D.step by step |
50.A.1egs | B.waists | C.backs | D.shoulders |
51.A.further | B.higher | C.deeper | D.wider |
52.A.present | B.clever | C.careful | D.former |
53.A.ever | B.never | C.still | D.merely |
54.A.hope | B.admit | C.complain | D.remember |
55.A.result | B.strength | C.effect | D.importance |