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Everything was ready for the first Thanksgiving Day feast (感恩节宴会) . It was 1621. The men had been out hunting and there was much deer meat and turkey (火鸡) . The fields had yielded (生长出) their rich harvest of corn and pumpkin (南瓜). The women had been busy cooking and baking (烘烤) and the invited Indian(印第安的) guest seemed to be eating white flowers at which the pilgrims (移民) marveled (惊奇) . When the Indian saw the puzzled expressions (表情) on the white men's faces, he smiled and drew some seeds from one of the two deerskin bags which he carried. He placed them on the hot stones near the fire. Then he waited and suddenly the seeds began to hop (跳) about and to burst with a popping noise.
Pop! Pop! Pop!
The Indian laughed as the pilgrims expressed their surprise. The seeds jumped off the hot rock as they popped, and turned into the white fluffy (蓬松的) things that the Indian had taken from the first bag.
“Look! ” a pilgrim boy shouted. “It's magic! ”
The pilgrims tasted the new food and found it delicious. And that's how the pilgrims first learned about popcorn(爆玉米花).
1．Where did the deer meat and turkey for the feast come from?
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A．The author didn't tell us that.
B．They were bought in the market (市场).
C．They came from hunting.
D．They were given by friends.
2．They held (举办) the feast to ________ .
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3．Which of the following is TRUE?
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A．The Indian was eating a kind of white flowers which made the pilgrims puzzled.
B．The Indian was surprised that the pilgrims were eating white flowers.
C．The pilgrims knew very well what the Indian was eating.
D．The pilgrims had no interest in the white flowers.
4．Which of the following is NOT true?
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A．The white flowers were actually a kind of food made of corn.
B．The hot stones made the corn seeds turn into the white fluffy things－the white flowers.
C．The pilgrims learned that the white flowers the Indian was eating were called popcorn.
D．The Indian had the magic power to make the seeds hopping.
5．The passage tells us ________ .
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A．how the pilgrims celebrated the Thanksgiving Day.
B．how to make the popcorn.
C．about the magic power of the Indian.
D．about a kind of plant－the white flower.
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George Washington Carver was born in 1864. He was born a slave(奴隶). When he was still a baby, his mother was stolen. He was kept by his master.
All his life George loved 31 . When he was only seven years old, he already knew so 32 about plants that people in his hometown called him “the plant doctor”.
George wanted to learn as much as he could, but there was no 33 for black children where he lived. When he was ten, he left home to find a town that would allow 34 children to attend school. He studied in Missouri and Kansas 35 he finished high school. All this time he had to work to 36 his own expense(费用). He worked as a cook and opened his own laundry.
In 1890, George began college. At first he studied art, but he still had a 37 of plants. He began to study agriculture(农业). After he graduated, the famous inventor Thomas Edison asked him to work in his lab but George 38 . He had other 39 . He started an agricultural organization for black students in Alabama.
In those days, many 40 in the south grew only cotton. This was 41 to the soil(土壤). After a while the 42 would not grow as well. George Washington Carver wanted to help farmers in the south to grow plants like peanuts and sweet potatoes. These plants helped the 43 . Over the years he invented hundreds of ways to use these two plants.
George Washington Carver invented so many things that he was 44 “The Wizard(能手) of Tuskegee”. He died in 1943 at the 45 of 79.
1. A. animals B. plants C. buildings D. photos
2. A. much B. many C. little D. few
3. A. house B. farm C. hospital D. school
4. A. brown B. yellow C. black D. white
5. A. when B. until C. for D. since
6. A. cost B. spend C. pay D. take
7. A. love B. hate C. question D. surprise
8. A. accepted B. refused C. understood D. cared
9. A. situations B. suggestions C. plays D. plans
10. A. farmers B. scientists C. doctors D. inventors
11. A. helpful B. harmful C. careful D. wonderful
12. A. pumpkin B. peanut C. cotton D. potato
13. A. soil B. water C. air D. weather
14. A. seen B. look C. found D. called
15. A. time B. year C. age D. season
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 George Washington Carver was born in 1864. He was born a slave (奴隶). When he was still a baby, his mother was stolen. He was kept by his master. All his life George loved 1 . When he was only seven years old, he already knew so 2 about plants that people in his hometown called him "the plant doctor". George wanted to learn as much as he could, but there was no 3 for black children where he lived. When he was ten, he left home to find a town that would allow 4 children to attend school. He studied in Missouri and Kansas 5 he finished high school. All this time he had to work to 6 his own expense (费用). He worked as a cook and opened his own laundry. In 1890, George began college. At first he studied art, but he still had 7 of plants. He began to study agriculture (农业). After he graduated, the famous inventor Thomas Edison asked him to work in his lab but George 8 . He had other 9 . He started an agricultural organization for black students in Alabama. In those days, many 10 in the south grew only cotton. This was 11 to the soil (土壤). After a while the 12 would not grow as well. George Washington Carver wanted to help farmers in the south to grow plants like peanuts and sweet potatoes. These plants helped the 13 . Over the years he invented hundreds of ways to use these two plants. George Washington Carver invented so many things that he was 14 "The Wizard (能手) of Tuskegee". He died in 1943 at the 15 of 79. | ||||
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No one knew that the vegetables in the field and the tree couldn't get on well with each other. The vegetables h________小题2:the tree. They thought the tree did not leave them e________ 小题3:light to survive. On the other hand, the tree hated the vegetables. He complained that the vegetables drank nearly all the water b________小题4: it could get to him.
The situation became worse and worse. One day, the vegetables got angry and decided to use up all the w________小题5:in the ground so that the tree would dry up. The tree fought back by refusing to give the vegetables shade(树荫) from the hot sun. Soon they both began to dry up.
Neither of them thought that the gardener would stop watering his vegetable f________小题6: when he saw it becoming worse. When the gardener did that, the tree and the vegetables really felt how t________小题7: they were. There seemed to be no ways to solve the problem, but one of the vegetables, a small pumpkin
r________小题8:what was going on, and decided to deal with it. Though there was little water and it was too hot, the little pumpkin did all he could to grow... F________小题9: he grow very big, the gardener noticed that and started watering the field again because he wanted to win the beautiful big pumpkin competition. At the same time, the tree and the vegetables grew better. They realizes that it was better to help each other than to f________小题10:.
From then on, they worked together and lived in harmony with these around them.