Question

Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the island had a disease called beri-beri. He was going there to try and find a cure. At first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ (細(xì)菌) caused beri-beri. He raised some chickens. He didn’t eat them, but made experiments on them. The local people were quite surprised at that. One day he noticed that his chickens became sick when they were fed the food most Javanese ate-refined white rice (精煉米). When he fed them with unrefined rice, also known as brown rice, they recovered.

Eijkman realized that he had made an important discovery-that some things in food could prevent disease. These things were named vitamins (維生素). The Javanese were not getting enough vitamins because they had actually removed the part that contains vitamins. Later, other diseases were also found to be caused by the lack of vitamins in a person’s food.

Today many people know the importance of vitamins and they make sure they have enough vitamins from the food they eat. If they don’t, they can also take vitamin pills.

1.The underlined word “cure” in Para 1 probably means ______.

A. a medical treatment B. a kind of vitamin

C. a kind of germ D. a kind of rice

2.Christian Eijkman went to the island of Java to ______.

A.spend his holiday

B. find ways to grow better crops

C. do some research about the island

D. help the Javanese with their illness

3.Why did Christian Eijkman raise some chickens?

A. To eat them.

B. To carry out his experiments.

C. To give the Javanese a surprise.

D. To make money by selling them.

4.If a person doesn’t get enough vitamins in his diet, he’d better _____.

A. eat more rice B. eat more meat

C. eat some chicken D. eat vitamin pills

5.We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. Beri was caused by chickens

B. the Javanese didn’t like vitamins

C. Christian Eijkman’s experiment was successful

D. the Javanese’s disease was caused by a kind of germ

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.D

5.C

【解析】

試題分析：爪哇島上的人們患上了一種怪病，醫(yī)生Christian Eijkman到那里尋找病因。他養(yǎng)了一些雞來(lái)做實(shí)驗(yàn)，結(jié)果發(fā)現(xiàn)人們生病的原因是沒(méi)有攝入足夠的維生素。

1.Many people on the island had a disease called beri-beri. He was going there to try and find a cure.”可知，爪哇島上的人得了一種怪病，醫(yī)生Christian Eijkman去那里尋找治療這種怪病的方法，故選A。

2.He was going there to try and find a cure.”可知，Christian Eijkman到爪哇島是為了幫助當(dāng)?shù)厝藢ふ抑委煼椒�，故選D。

3.He raised some chickens. He didn’t eat them, but made experiments on them.”可知，他養(yǎng)了一些雞是為了用雞做實(shí)驗(yàn)，故選B。

4.If they don’t, they can also take vitamin pills.”可知，當(dāng)無(wú)法從食物中獲取足夠的維生素時(shí)，可以吃一些維生素藥片來(lái)補(bǔ)充，故選D。

5.Eijkman realized that he had made an important discovery-that some things in food could prevent disease. These things were named vitamins (維生素).”可知，Eijkman找到了怪病的病因，說(shuō)明他做的實(shí)驗(yàn)是成功的，故選C。

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