What's in the news? Here are some articles from the Winfield Daily News．
Engaged to be married
Mr．and Mrs．Eduardo Silva of Bogota, Colombia, are happy to announce that engagement of their daughter Cristina Ana Silva to Gino Antonio Leone．Miss Silva is studying art history at Winfield Community College and Mr．Leone is working at the Roma Restaurant．The wedding will take place at St．Mark's Church in Winfield on October 5th．The reception(接待)will be at the Roma．
Black History Month
Winfield Public Library is please to announce a special program to celebrate Black History Month．The well-known actor Albert Eaton will perform a one-man show named MLK：His life and Times．In the show, Eaton recreates(重现)the life and times of the late civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr．, through music and drama．Performances are at 3∶30 and 7∶30, Thursday through Saturday．Admission free．Telephone：5365400．
Benjamins have a daughter
Mr．and Mrs．Leon Benjamin are proud to announce the birth of their first child, Andrea Jean．She was born at Winfield Hospital on June 9 at 11∶10 PM．
SPORTS
High School－Parents Beat Students
The parents' football team beat the students 4 to 2 in a wild and exciting match yesterday at Winfield Stadium．It was the first win for the parents since the yearly event started five years ago．Adela Logan led the parents to victory with three goals．Her son, Bob Logan, scored the only two goals for the losing team, it was both a happy and a sad day for the Logan family!
College－Winfield Community College Senior Wins State Tournament
Ginny Lewis took the title away from defending state tennis winner, Susan Murray, yesterday in three straight sets, 6-1, 6-3, 6-4．This was the first time a Winfield student has played in the state finals．Ginny brought home a trophy(奖杯)and a ＄1000 prize for her studies at college．
(1)
What is the Benjiamins' announcement about?
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A．
Their engagement．
B．
A new-born Baby．
C．
Black History Month．
D．
A newly married couple．
(2)
Who's going to perform at Winfield Public Library?
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A．
Albert Eaton
B．
Eduardo Silva
C．
Adela Logan
D．
Martin Luther King Jr．
(3)
What do we know about the high school football game?
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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