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　　What we believe depend on our view of the world. For example if we ask, “When was America discovered?” Most of us would think of Christopher Columbus in 1492．But Chinese children learn that Hui Shen, a Buddhist monk (僧侶) , got to America 1,000 years earlier than Columbus. Who was printing invented by and in which year was in invented? You at once think of Guterberg in 1436, but Chinese children learn that it was invented by Bi Sheng in 1041.

　　Whose invention is spaghetti (面條)? It's the invention of the Italians, you might say. Wrong again. The Chinese had it before them. Where and when was the compass(指南針)invented? Answer: in China in 200 BC. Where was silk-making invented? Not in Persia, as you might think, but in China. Which was the first country to put a man into space and who was he? The Soviet Union, you will say and the man's name was Yuri Gagarin. But according to the Chinese, Wan Hu made it long before, Yuri. When, do you think-In 1500 AD! He sat in a chair attached to 47 rockets, holding a very big kite which would help him return to earth. He never came back!

1．The best title of the passage is ________.

[　　]

A．The Chinese people
B．What are inventions
C．Who did what and when
D．Differences between them

2．Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

[　　]

A．Christpher Columbus went to America following Hui Shen

B．Bi Sheng invented printing in 1041

C．People wanted to enter space a long time ago

D．Columbus discovered America in 1492

3．What can we infer from the passage?

[　　]

A．Chinese children are always taught differently

B．Chinese people did everything first

C．Spaghetti is a favorite food all over the world

D．Different people have different ideas about things.

4．The underlined word “view”means ________.

[　　]

A．opinion
B．sight
C．thought
D．success
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科目：高中英語 來源：2012年普通高等學(xué)校招生全國統(tǒng)一考試重慶卷英語 題型：050

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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(邪惡的)．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(地獄)．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．

(1)

The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

[　　]

A．

it made Christive evil

B．

it was the apple of Eden

C．

it came from a forbidden land

D．

it was religiously unacceptable

(2)

What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

[　　]

A．

The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

B．

There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

C．

The tomato was still refused in most western countries

D．

Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

(3)

What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

[　　]

A．

To manke imself a hero

B．

To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

C．

To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

D．

To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

(4)

What is the main purpose of the passage?

[　　]

A．

To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

B．

To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

C．

To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

D．

To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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