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.A good title for this reading passage is______.

A. Popeye the Sailor B. The Truth About Spinach

C.A Mistake with Numbers D. Folic Acid Makes You Strong

2.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.

3.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

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

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

5.Folic acid is ______.

A. something in food B. a vegetable

C. dangerous D. a certain kind of spinach

Answer 1

1.B

2.A

3.D

4.B

5.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文是一篇科普短文。自從二十世紀三十年代動畫片《大力水手》的播映以來，菠菜成了人們餐桌上必不可少的一道菜，人們都認為菠菜所含的鐵會賦予人力量。事實上，菠菜里含的鐵并不比別的蔬菜多，而菠菜中的葉酸能夠使人身體強壯。

1. 主旨大意題。A 大力水手；B菠菜的真相；C數(shù)據(jù)的錯誤；D葉酸讓你強壯。文章的開頭點明《大力水手》的播映使很多人認為菠菜會讓人強壯，接下來又指出this is not true，在第三、四、五段中作者講述了有關菠菜的事實，由此可知文章的大意是糾正人們對于菠菜的錯誤認識，故選B。

2. 推理判斷題。根據(jù)第一、二兩段的內(nèi)容可知，動畫片中的大力水手吃了菠菜后力大無窮，看過這個動畫片的人們也把菠菜當成了他們餐桌上一道必不可少的菜，由此推斷人們認為菠菜真的會讓他們身體強壯，故選A。

3.細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段倒數(shù)第二句“This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did.”可知研究者提出了菠菜中鐵的含量是其他綠色蔬菜的10倍多的觀點。D項表述正確，故選D。

4.細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章最后一段的“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.”可知葉酸能讓人身體強壯，或許大力水手的力量就是由此而來的，故選B。

5.A推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章第四段“spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.”可知folic acid（葉酸）是存在于菠菜中的，但不是一種蔬菜，也不是一種菠菜，文中也沒有提到葉酸有害，由此推斷B、C、D均不正確，故選A。

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