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【題目】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. 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

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】D

【4】B

【5】A

【解析】

試題分析:本文是一篇日常生活類文章，大力水手的熱播使得許多人愛上了吃菠菜，甚至一些以前不愛吃的小孩子也愛上了它。人們認為菠菜里的鐵能夠讓人變得和大力水手一樣強壯，事實上這是錯誤的。反而是菠菜里的葉酸對人體有好處。

【1】B主旨大意題。本文介紹了人們對菠菜的誤解，和現在科學對菠菜的認識，是對菠菜的一個探究，B選項The Truth About Spinach最符合題意，故選B。

【2】A細節(jié)理解題。根據第二段 Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong. 可知人們認為菠菜使得大力水手強壯，自己也想變得強壯就吃菠菜，選A。

【3】D細節(jié)理解題。根據第三段This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did.研究人員告訴人們菠菜含有更多的鐵元素，故選D。

【4】B細節(jié)理解題。文章末段提到Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.由此判斷也許大力水手是因為菠菜的葉酸才變得這么強壯的，故選B。

【5】A 推理判斷題。根據文章末尾However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.可知folic acid是菠菜里含有的一種物質，故選A。