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    　　What do you want to be when you grow up?A teacher?A doctor?How about an ice-cream taster?

    　　Yes, there really is a job where you can get paid to taste ice cream．Just ask John Harrison, an“Official Taste Tester”for the past 21 years．Testing helps manufacturers(制造商)to be sure of a product's quality．During his career Harrison has been responsible for approving large quantities of the sweet ice cream－as well as for developing over 75 flavors．

    　　Some people think that it would be easy to do this job; after all, you just have to like ice cream, right?No－there's more to the job than that, says Harrison, who has a degree in chemistry．He points out that a dairy or food science degree would be very useful to someone wanting a career in this“cool”field．

    　　In a typical morning on the job, Harrison tastes and assesses 60 ice-cream samples．He lets the ice cream warm up about 12℉．Harrison explains,“You get more flavor from warmer ice cream, which is why some kids like to stir it, creating ice-cream soup．”

    　　While the ice cream warms up, Harrison looks over the samples and grades each one on its appearance．“Tasting begins with the eyes,”he explains．He checks to see if the ice cream is attractive and asks himself,“Does the product have the color expected from that flavor?”Next it's time to taste!

    　　Continuing to think up new ideas, try out new flavors and test samples from so many kinds of ice cream each day keeps Harrison busy but happy－working at one cool job．

    (1)

    According to John Harrison, to be qualified in the“cool field”, it is helpful to ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    keep a diary of work

    B．

    have a degree in related subjects

    C．

    have new ideas every day

    D．

    find out new flavors each day

    (2)

    What does Harrison do first when tasting ice cream?

    [　　]

    A．

    He stirs the ice cream．

    B．

    He examines the color of the ice cream．

    C．

    He tastes the flavor of the ice cream．

    D．

    He lets the ice cream warm up．

    (3)

    Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    Tasting with Eyes

    B．

    Flavors of Ice Cream

    C．

    John Harrison's Life

    D．

    One Cool Job

    答案：1．B;2．D;3．D;
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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(邪恶的)．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(地狱)．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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