25In its country of Germany, the hot dog was called the frankfurter. It was named after Frankfurt, a German city. Frankfurters were first sold in the United States in the 1860s. Americans called frankfurters “dachshund sausages”. A dachshund is a dog from Germany with a very long body and short legs. Dachshund sausages first became popular in New York, especially at baseball games. At games they were sold by men who kept them warm in hot-water tanks. As the men walked up and down the rows of people, they yelled, “Get your dachshund sausages! Get your hot dachshund sausages!” People got the sausages on buns, a special bread.
One day in 1906, a newspaper cartoonist named Tad Dargan went to a baseball game. When he saw the man with the dachshund sausages, he got an idea for a cartoon. The next say at the newspaper office he drew a bun with a dachshund inside ---not a dachshund sausage, but a dachshund. Dorgan didn’t know to spell dachshund. Under the cartoon, he wrote “Get you hot dogs!”
The cartoon caused deep interest and excitement, and so was the new name. If you go to a baseball games today, you can still see sellers walking around with hot-water tanks. As they walked up and down the rows they yell, “Get your hot dogs here! Get your hot dogs!”
The main purpose of the passage is to show_____.
A the home country of the hot dog
B the origin of the hot dog
C the selling of the hot dog
D the cartoon of the hot dog
26All of us eat every day, but most of us don’t understand nutrition. How much do you know about good nutrition? Are the following statements true or false?
1. People who don’t eat meat can stay healthy.
True. As long as people eat enough milk, eggs and meat alternated, they can get enough protein.
2. Fresh vegetables cooked at home are always more nutritious than canned vegetables.
False. The difference depends on how vegetables are prepared than whether they are fresh or canned. Vegetables cooked in too much water lose a great amount of vitamins.
3 Food eaten between meals can be just as good for health as food eaten at regular meals.
True. Nutritional value depends on what type of food you eat, not when you eat them. Eating an egg or an orange between meals can contribute to a good diet.
4. Taking extra vitamins beyond the recommended daily allowances won’t give you more energy.
True. It’s widely believed that extra vitamins provide more energy. But taking more than the body needs doesn’t make it function better, not more than overfilling your gas tank makes your car run better.
5. Natural vitamins are better supplements (补充) for the diet than synthetic vitamins.
False. There is no difference. A vitamin has the same properties (性质) and specific chemical structure whether made in a laboratory or taken from plant or animal parts.
6 Older people need the same amount of vitamins as younger people.
True. Older people need the same amount of vitamins as younger people although they need fewer calories (卡). Certain illnesses raise the requirements for some vitamins, but that is true for the young as well as the old.
7 Food grow in poor soil is lower in vitamins than food grown in rich soil.
False. The vitamins in our food are made by the plants themselves. They don’t come from the soil. However, the minerals in a plant depend on the minerals in the soil.
If you have answered these questions correctly, You can say you know much about food and nutrition by today’s standards. But remember that nutrition is growing science and that it may be changed as new information is obtained.
The main purpose of the passage is _____.
A to list today’s standards of food and nutrition
B to introduce what should be eaten and what not
C to explain what is helpful to your health and what is not.
D to test our nutrition IQ by judging the problems listed
27When we say that Cambridge us a university town, we don’t mean just that it is a town with a university in it. Manchester and Milan have universities, but we don’t call them university towns. A university town is one where there is no clear separation between the university buildings and the rest of the city. The university is not just one part of the town; it is all over the town. The heart of Cambridge has its shops, pubs (小酒馆), marketplace and so on, but most of it is university—colleges, faculties(各系部), libraries, clubs and other places for university staff(教职员工) and students. Students fill the shops, cafes, bands, and churches, making these as well part, of the university.
The town was there first. Two Roman roads crossed there, and there are signs of building before Roman times (earlier than A.D. 43). Cambridge became a center of learning, and the authority（权威) of the head of the university was recognized by the king in 1226.
With about 8,250 undergraduates and over 2,000 postgraduates, the city is a busy place in “full turn” (全体学生在校上课时). Undergraduates are not allowed to keep cars in Cambridge, so nearly all of them use bicycles. Don’t try to drive through Cambridge during the five minutes between lectures. Your bicycle must go through a boiling sea of other bicycles hurrying in all directions. If you are in Cambridge at five minutes to the hour any morning of full term , you know that you are in a university town.
What is the title of the passage?
A Cambridge --- A University Town
B Cambridge ---A Centre of learning
C Cambridge with Many Students
D Cambridge with a Long History
参考答案
16. B 17. C 18. B 19. C 20. B 21. D
22. C 23. A 24. B 25. B 26. D 27. A
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