Consider the tomato: easy to grow, healthy to eat, tasty in just about any recipe and pleasant to look at. And come late summer, in steady supply. Though you can find it during the coldest winter months, August is the tomato's season to shine. Farmers' markets and grocery stores are bursting with lesser-known but arguably tastier varieties, including purple cherries and big heirlooms.
"Heirlooms ripened on the vine(藤) are the tastiest of all tomatoes," says Amy Goldman Fowler, author of The Heirloom Tomato. "I think their beauty is more than skin-deep." Heirloom seeds have been around for at least 50 years, often passed down from generation to generation. You may hear cherry or heirloom used to describe a tomato at hand, but there are many different kinds of tomatoes, and growers have fun giving catchy names to varieties: Mortgage Lifters, Beefsteaks, Oxhearts, Early Girls.
And all of them come with health benefits. Tomatoes are a good source of the antioxidant lycopene (抗氧化番茄红素), which is thought to help lower a person's risk for heart problems and cancer. Tomatoes also contain healthy vitamins(维生素) A and C. For the best fruit (they're fruits, not vegetables), choose tomatoes with shiny, firm skin and a little give, and store them at room temperature away from direct sunlight. Keep them out of the fridge, since cold temperatures can affect the original taste.
"They satisfy something more than just taste," says Fowler. "Tomatoes feed your soul."
1.In which season do tomatoes sell best?
A. Spring. B. Summer.
C. Autumn. D. Winter.
2.What can you learn from the passage?
A. Tomatoes are healthy vegetables.
B. Direct sunlight helps to store tomatoes.
C. Tomatoes go bad more quickly in the fridge.
D. Heirlooms are tastier than the other tomatoes.
3.Why do tomatoes benefit people?
A. They can produce antioxidant lycopene.
B. They may prevent some diseases.
C. They can be used as medicine.
D. They may make people's skin shiny.
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题
Consider the tomato: easy to grow, healthy to eat, tasty in just about any recipe and pleasant to look at. And come late summer, in steady supply. Though you can find it during the coldest winter months, August is the tomato's season to shine. Farmers' markets and grocery stores are bursting with lesser-known but arguably tastier varieties, including purple cherries and big heirlooms.
"Heirlooms ripened on the vine(藤) are the tastiest of all tomatoes," says Amy Goldman Fowler, author of The Heirloom Tomato. "I think their beauty is more than skin-deep." Heirloom seeds have been around for at least 50 years, often passed down from generation to generation. You may hear cherry or heirloom used to describe a tomato at hand, but there are many different kinds of tomatoes, and growers have fun giving catchy names to varieties: Mortgage Lifters, Beefsteaks, Oxhearts, Early Girls.
And all of them come with health benefits. Tomatoes are a good source of the antioxidant lycopene (抗氧化番茄红素), which is thought to help lower a person's risk for heart problems and cancer. Tomatoes also contain healthy vitamins(维生素) A and C. For the best fruit (they're fruits, not vegetables), choose tomatoes with shiny, firm skin and a little give, and store them at room temperature away from direct sunlight. Keep them out of the fridge, since cold temperatures can affect the original taste.
"They satisfy something more than just taste," says Fowler. "Tomatoes feed your soul."
1.In which season do tomatoes sell best?
A. Spring. B. Summer.
C. Autumn. D. Winter.
2.What can you learn from the passage?
A. Tomatoes are healthy vegetables.
B. Direct sunlight helps to store tomatoes.
C. Tomatoes go bad more quickly in the fridge.
D. Heirlooms are tastier than the other tomatoes.
3.Why do tomatoes benefit people?
A. They can produce antioxidant lycopene.
B. They may prevent some diseases.
C. They can be used as medicine.
D. They may make people's skin shiny.
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One of the best ways for people to keep fit is to ______ healthy eating habits.
A.grow B.develop C.increase D.raise
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How to keep healthy? It’s easy for us to catch a cold in spring and winter because the weather changes a lot in spring and it is too cold in winter. But if we take care in our life, all of us can keep healthy without any cold.
1.This will stop germs (细菌) passing from one person to another. When you finish your work or before you eat, you’d better wash your hands.
2.Use a tissue and then throw it into dustbins at once. When others around you are coughing, I advise you to turn your head away from the people so that their virus (病毒) won’t reach you.
Get more fresh air. Germs like staying around in dry and warm rooms. 3.Don’t stay too long in the places with too many people.
If flu is going round house or school, you should try to stay away from those who are ill. 4.
Boil your toothbrush for about a minute. This kills germs. 5. If you have used the toothbrush for three months or so, throw it away and buy a new one.
A. Have a shower every day.
B. Wash your hands often.
C. Don’t use your hands when coughing.
D. Don’t go out often when you are coughing.
E. Besides, don’t use the same toothbrush too long.
F. In this way, you won’t be infected by those people.
G. So you’d better stay in the places with more fresh air.
高二英语七选五困难题查看答案及解析
English teenagers will receive cooking lessons in schools. The idea is to encourage healthy eating to solve the problem that many people are overweight. Also, it worries people that basic cooking and food preparation skills are being lost because parents use too much pre-prepared fast food.
Cooking was once regarded as an important part of education in England---even if it was mainly for girls. In recent years cooking has become less important in schools. But the rising level of obesity has led to rethink about the food that children are given and the skills they should be taught.
“What we want is to teach young people how to do basic, simple meals, which they can use now at home and then in their life,” said Ed Balls, an education expert.
The new lessons will start in September, but some schools without kitchens will be given a longer time to prepare. Also, there may be a shortage of teachers with the right skills, since schools have been teaching food technology rather than practical cooking. Besides, the lessons for hand-on cooking will only be one hour a week for one term. But the well-known cookery writer, Pru Leith, believe it will be worth it.
“If we’d done this thirty years ago we might not have to face the problem about obesity and lack of knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how to cook, not just so that they’ll be healthy, but because it’s a life skill which is a real pleasure.”
The renewed interest in cooking is an effort to reduce the obesity rate, which is almost the highest in Europe, and according to the government, half of all British people will be obese in 25 years if present trends are not halted.
1.The passage mainly talks about .
A. the reason for obesity B. the lost cooking skills
C. the healthy eating D. the cooking classes
2.Which of the following is NOT the aim of bringing back cooking lessons in Britain?
A. To encourage teenagers to eat healthy food.
B. To reduce the country’s increasing obesity rate.
C. To stop parents from turning to pre-prepared fast food.
D. To prevent basic cooking and food preparation skills from being lost.
3.How will cooking lessons do good to the students?
A. All of them will become good cooks in their later life.
B. Students will be healthy and enjoy the pleasure of such a life skill as well.
C. Students will be able to make food experiments with the knowledge and skills.
D. Students will be able to control the level of obesity in the whole country.
4.The underlined word “halted” in the last paragraph probably means “ ”.
A. continued B. stopped C. discussed D. kept
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Almost everyone likes to eat apples.Apples grow in nearly every part of the world.The United States produces more apples than any other country except France.The states of Washington and New York grow the most apples.1. New York is on the east coast and Washington is on the west near Canada.
Apples are red, yellow or green.They are very popular in the United States.2. Most American people are often too busy or too tired to cook dinner, so they often have their dinners very simply.Apple juice is also a popular drink and apple pie is the favorite sweet dish for many Americans.
3. The trees there produce nearly five billion apples every year—one apple for every man, woman and child in the whole world.
4. For example, “You are the apple of my eye.” means “You are actually the one I love best and care most.” In China, it is a custom in some places for the marrying couple to hold an apple in each one’s hand, promising that their marriage will be “safe” without anything bad and that their marriage will never be broken.“To apple polish” often refers to a man who fawns (奉承) on somebody for the purpose of getting some benefits.So you can easily get “apple polisher”.However, “in apple-pie order” usually has the same meaning as “in good order”. 5. In fact, it’s another saying about “compare two things that can’t be compared”.
A.The state of Washington is proud of its apples
B.Apples play an important part in people’s health
C.There are many stories and sayings about apples
D.Perhaps this is why “New York” is often called “Big Apple” by some people
E.The apples in France are better than those in America
F.Many people like to carry apples to work or to school to eat with their lunches
G.It is likely that you hear about “compare apples and oranges”
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As demand for power and fuel grows steadily in the coming decades, we must consider every possible energy source(来源)on hand if we're to meet the world's needs. And because clean natural gas is found in great plenty, there is little doubt that it will play a major role on the world energy stage in this century, much like oil did in the last. But, like oil, gas reserves are concentrated in just a few places in the world, usually far from where they're needed most. And that's only part of the challenge. The world has had well over 100 years to search for oil and to build the necessary facilities(设施)to bring it to market; the natural gas facilities, particularly when it comes to liquefied(液化)natural gas(LNG), are not nearly as developed.
So what needs to be done? On the supply side, producing nations need policies that allow for better development of their natural gas in an open, stable business environment, not one in which the rules of the game change without warning. The governments of consuming nations, on the other hand, must make policies for sustainable(可持续的)development to ensure they'll have enough supplies in the future. That means building the related facilities, including LNG stations. This, in turn, will require coastal areas to allow these necessary, but not necessarily pretty, facilities to be built in their backyards. And energy companies have a responsibility to be good neighbors in those areas by operating these facilities responsibly and safely. They must also continue to put in the billions of dollars needed to build the complex transport and storage facilities required to bring more gas to market.
Expanding and diversifying(使多样化)energy sources by using more natural gas could lead to lower fuel prices and to greater energy security. We've taken some of the steps to get started, but we need your help to get the rest of the way.
1.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Gas played a major part in the 20th century.
B. Natural gas facilities are far from satisfactory.
C. Gas reserves are widely spread around the world.
D. Necessary facilities are ready to bring gas to market.
2. The underlined word "one"(in Paragraph 2)refers to _____________.
A. a gas supply side B. a business environment
C. a gas consuming nation D. a policy for gas development
3.Consuming nations of natural gas need to ___________.
A. change the rules of the game
B. open markets in their backyards
C. build pretty facilities along the coast
D. have long-term policies for gas supply
4. The main purpose of the passage is to _______.
A. warn people of the lack of power and fuel
B. discuss the importance of oil and natural gas
C. call for better use and development of natural gas
D. instruct people how to make use of energy sources
5. The passage might be followed by a paragraph about
A. what kind of help you can offer
B. where energy sources are concentrated
C. which countries are in great need of gas
D. what problems of energy sources we may face
高二英语阅读理解中等难度题查看答案及解析
The market is a concept. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the local manager of the supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. Your efforts are being directed by the market. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.
If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steel worker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.
When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market. You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.
The market may be something abstract (抽象的). But for each person or business that is making and selling something, it is very concrete. If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long before you get the message. The market is telling you something. It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.
1. Which of the following would be the best title of the passage?
A.Selling and Buying. | B.Everything you do is producing for the market. |
C.What is the market? | D.What the market can do for you. |
2.All of the following acts are producing for the market except________.
A.working in a bank | B.attending a night school |
C.driving a taxi | D.growing beans for sale |
3.You are buying from the market when you________.
A.borrow a book from the library | B.drive to the seaside for a holiday |
C.look after your children | D.dine at restaurant |
4.The word “concrete” in the last paragraph may most probably mean________.
A.serious | B.important | C.necessary | D.real |
高二英语阅读理解简单题查看答案及解析
Food is a hot issue in China. Eating, 1.(consider) to be an important part of each day, is far beyond simply meeting a need;2.now, people sometimes hardly have time to enjoy their food, because they are living in a fast-paced society. They need fast food. That’s 3.China’s fast-food market expands.
The first foreign fast-food restaurant to arrive in China was called KFC, quickly followed by Pizza Hut, McDonald’ s and so on. With the 4.(develop) of China, foreign fast-food chains are realizing high-speed growth in China. However, being unable 5.(provide) balanced nutrition, these “junk foods” 6.(criticize) by health experts for a long time The experts also show that some foreign fast food consists 7.certain cancer-causing chemicals.
8.(actual), the Chinese diet contains many of its own 9.(tradition) fast-food dishes. Among them, dumplings, soybean milk and noodles are the most popular. Compared with foreign fast food, those are healthier. But many Chinese still enjoy the special taste and the good environment in the foreign fast-food chains. It’s high time that they 10.(wake) up to the fact of the potential risks with foreign fast-food.
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With the release of the latest version of iPhone, users can have easy _________________ to ever-growing incredible on-line games.
A. desire B. access C. certificate D. privilege
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听下面一段较长对话,回答以下小题。
1.Why does the man want to learn how to cook?
A. To save money. B. To eat a healthier diet. C. To cook for his mother.
2.What does the woman tell the man to do first?
A. Crack the egg. B. Get the cooking oil. C. Heat up some water.
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