Everybody knows vegetables and fruit are g        for people．Many people eat some fruit each day．Mr and Mrs Smith like e         fruit very much and every day Mrs Smith goes to buy some fruit in the shop near her home. She can buy all k          of fruits there，such as apples，pears, oranges and bananas．In different time of the year the p         of each kind of fruit is not the same，s         high，sometimes low. Mrs Smith usually t       to buy cheap fruit．And b         are Mr Smith's favourite fruit．Mrs Smith buys bananas for him every week．But she always chooses the cheap ones.“Eating fruit can help to keep f      ，" said Mr Smith．“It's quite d          from snacks．Both of them can give us energy．But snacks l         cakes, chocolates and sweets are not good for our health at all," 

Val is a six-year-old boy. He begins to go to school this term. He studies very hard and listens to the teachers carefully. He is polite and has many friends. They all like him very much.

It was Sunday. Val, his sister and his mother stayed at home. His mother was doing some housework, his sister was doing her homework. Val was watching TV. At ten his father came back with some apples. The boy liked apples very much and wanted to eat some of them. His mother gave him four apples and said, “Go and wash them.”

Val washed the apples and then gave them back to his mother. Mother asked, “Which apple do you want, Val?”

“The biggest one, Mum.”

“What?” said his mother, “You should be polite and want the smallest one.”

“Should I tell a lie to be polite, Mum?”

1.Why did his mother ask Val to wash the apples?

2.Who was going to eat the biggest apple?

A．His mother.

B．His father.

C．His sister.

D．Val.

3.Which is right?

In many English homes people eat four meals a day. They have breakfast at any time from seven to nine in the morning. They eat porridge(粥) eggs or bread and drink tea or coffee at breakfast. Lunch comes at one o’clock. Afternoon tea is from four to five in the afternoon and dinner is about half past seven. First they have soup, then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After they eat some other things, like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day. Their meals are breakfast, dinner, tea and supper and all these meals are very simple.

1.Many English people have ______ meals a day.

A. two           B. three         C. four  

2.People may have _______ for their breakfast according to the passage.

A. tea and eggs    B. hamburgers and tea    C. coffee and salad 

3.People have lunch at _______.

A. any time     B. one     C. five   

4.People don’t have _______ for their dinner.

A. bananas and apples   B. porridge  C. meat and fish 

5.Most Englishmen have dinner ________.

A. in the evening      B. at any time    C. at noon