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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．

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　　The house next door had been empty for so long that we had quite forgotten what it was to have neighbors．One day, 　　1　　, a great furniture lorry drew up near our front gate and in a short time, all kinds of furniture were 　　2　　 on the pavement．A small car arrived, out of which came seven people, a man, a woman and five children of 　　3　　 ages．The children hurried out and began laughing 　　4　　 as the whole family moved into the house．Windows were 　　5　　 opens furniture was put into 　　6　　; and little faces looked curiously at us over the fence and disappeared．It was our first 　　7　　 to the Robinsons．

　　Though we became firm 　　8　　 with our new neighbors, we often had causes to be made angry by them．Our garden became an unsafe place：little boys 　　9　　 as cowboys or Indians would jump up from behind bushes, 　　10　　 wooden guns at us and 　　11　　 us to put our hands up．Sometimes our lives were 　　12　　; at others, we were killed with a 　　13　　“Bang!Bang!”．Even more dangerous were the arrows that occasionally came sailing 　　14　　 the garden fence．

　　But we did not 　　15　　 go in fear for our lives．The Robinsons were friendly and helpful and when we left for the holidays, we knew we had nothing to fear 　　16　　 our neighbors were around．We understood what it was like to have 　　17　　 in the long, friendless, winter evenings 　　18　　．Mr．Robinson would 　　19　　 in for a cup of tea and chat;or when Mr．Robinson would 　　20　　 over the fence and talk endlessly with father about gardening problems．

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