Question

 Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.

Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.

People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.

Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.

It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.   

1.Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

A. They thought spinach made them strong.

B. They thought Popeye was funny.

C. Spinach had a lot of iron. 

D. People liked folic acid.

2.A research group told people that spinach______.

A. made Popeye strong 

B. was a green vegetable

C. had less iron than other green vegetables

D. had more iron than other green vegetables

3.The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.

A. iron                         B. folic acid                 C. spinach          D. exercise

4.Folic acid is ______.

A. something in food  B. a vegetable  C. dangerous         D. a certain kind of spinach

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.A

【解析】

試題分析 通過卡通人物大力水手來說明不是波菜讓人強壯而是其中波菜中的葉酸能使人強壯。

1.A 推斷題。。根據(jù)第一段所說Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong，故選擇A項。

2.D細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)第三段This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.故宣布是有誤的，故選擇D項。

3.B細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)最后一段 It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong，應(yīng)是葉酸使人強壯故選擇C項。一定讀懂作者的意圖。

4.A細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid，葉酸是在食物中所含有的。故選A項。

考點  科普類閱讀。