Almost 20 years ago, a few days before Christmas, Roni Austin's 6-year-old daughter, Lauren, went to a
Jack in the Box in Carlsbad and ate a hamburger. She got sick, was rushed to a hospital and never came home.
Lauren was the first to die in a multi-state E. coli outbreak that killed three other children and sickened 700
people.
     Like many people, Austin had never heard of E. coli before. At first bewildered, and then angry, Austin
soon became the face of food-safety reform in California and beyond. She co-founded a nonprofit group, Safe
Tables Our Priority (STOP), and pushed successfully for legislation (立法) requiring E. coli to be a reportable
illness, so outbreaks could be followed and stopped sooner. 
     Nervous initially to be in the spotlight, she learned not to fear politicians for the beef and fast-food industries. She was in the Oval Office when President Clinton signed the most sweeping changes to federal food-inspection law in the 1990s. She was in Sacramento when a state measure named after her daughter passed, indicating
minimum cooking temperatures in restaurants.
     Austin, 64, is not sure she has much choice. Every time she thinks she's handed off the baton (指揮棒) to
others, though, something brings her back. A phone call from a parent who has lost a child to a food-borne
illness. A news story about another outbreak. An event at La Costa Heights Elementary School, where
redheaded Lauren was in first grade and where a memorial garden was planted in her honor.
     Fixing food safety meant putting her career as a fashion designer on hold and flying 10 times to Washington DC to testify. It meant going to Sacramento to speak a half-dozen times. She's not fond of the legislative
process. Asked what she's proudest of in making her way through all that, she said,"That I didn't give up."

1. What does the underlined word "E. coli" in Paragraph 1 refer to?

A. A fast-food restaurant.
B. A special person.
C. A reportable illness.
D. A state of America.

2. The third paragraph is mainly about ______.

A. the great changes in food inspection
B. Austin's efforts to achieve food safety
C. the standards and practices of safe food
D. the federal plan to monitor food production

3. It can be inferred from Paragraph 4 that _______.

A. food safety problems are very serious
B. Roni Austin was forced to do the job
C. more people are concerned about food safety
D. Roni Austin donated to a memorial garden

4. Which of the following is true of Roni Austin?

A. She regretted for what she had done.
B. She used to be a fashion teacher.
C. She founded the organization STOP on her own.
D. She is the representative of food-safety reform.

5. What can be the best title for the text?

A. Mother's Way of Making Food Safe.
B. Painful Reminders, Constant Efforts.
C. Mother's Pride in Public Services.
D. Handling Sorry, Celebrating Life.

     Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart(購物手推車).They
will, in a lifetime, push the chrome-plated contraptions many miles. But few will know-or even think to ask-who it was that invented them.
      Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business.
Every day he would see shoppers lugging (吃力地攜帶) groceries around in baskets they had to carry.
     One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. The wheeled baskets would make
shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.
     On June 4,1937,Coldman's first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the
morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn't wait to see them using his invention.
     But Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the cart a long look, but hardly anybody would give
them a try.
     After a while, Coldman decided to ask customers why they weren't using his carts." Don't you think this
arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?"one shopper replied.
     But Coldman wasn't beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade
people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and
pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony (假冒的)
customers.
     As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his
market. But not only did more people come-those Who came bought more. With larger, easier-to- handle
baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.
     Today's shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman's original model. Perhaps that's one reason
Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937-before
the coming of the shopping cart.

1. The underlined words"chrome-plated contraptions" in Paragraph 1 refer to ____, ( no more than 3 words)
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2. What was the purpose of Goldman's invention? ( no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why was Goldman disappointed at first? ( no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
4. Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market? ( no more than 10 words)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
5.What do you think of Goldman? Please give your reasons. ( no more than 20 words)
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     Two men on a touring holiday in Britain were injured by an explosion (爆炸) in their motor truck in the
center of Norwich yesterday. 
       1   
     Several people rushed to give help and helped to put out the fire inside the truck. A light American bus
rushed to save drivers before Norwich firemen arrived. The men-American Mr Gary House, aged 25,of Ohio,
who was Driving,and his passenger Mr Charles Lynn,23,of Vancouver were taken to Norfolk and Norwich
Hospital with minor(輕微的)burns.
        2   
     "I heard this explosion. It was pretty loud. I thought it could have been a bomb." said Mr Leslie Webster,
manager of the market, who was working in his office in Red Lion Street."I looked out of the window and
saw this man jump from the truck and roll on the ground. Then another man came out of the truck.   3    
      "I came downstairs to get a fire extinguisher (滅火器),but by the time I got outside, someone who came
from the bank. was in the truck with an extinguisher." 
       4    One was taken into the market office to await treatment. "The second man insisted on going back
into the truck to see if everything was all right, and five minutes later he came out with a drawer that was
burning," he added. The explosion was also heard inside the bank. Office workers provided afire extinguisher
and telephoned for medical help.
     Although a window was blown out, damage inside the truck was mainly superficial (表面的).
     The two men spent the last six months touring the Continent and had traveled to Norwich from
Shettertor.  5  

A. They were allowed to leave after treatment.
B. Mr Webster, who lives at 71,Trinity Street, Norwich, said both the two injured were shocked.
C. At the time of the accident their wives were shopping in the city.
D. Shoppers and businessman in Red Lion Street were shocked by a loud bang (突然巨響), and
    seconds later the two men jumped over from the truck, which had stopped outside Barelays bank.
E. Their wives were traveling with them but they remained unburned.
F. He seemed to be in a worse state, parts of his trousers were hanging below his knees.