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【题目】Some people love eating food right after it is cooked. I prefer food just taken out from the freezer. Fruit, candies, nuts, chocolate, cake with buttercream frosting(糖霜), even peas, all of them taste delicious when frozen. In fact, I often eat them that way.

I was a kid when I picked up the habit. In my family, lots of things were thrown into the freezer — finally, two freezers — to prevent them from going bad. Among them were some of the candies my sisters and I had collected on Halloween.

If we eat when they are still warm, we’ll find ourselves taking the cookies more than we should. It’s better if we can put them into the freezer and wait. That way we’ll eat less and enjoy them more because they are hard and chewing becomes a slower, more patient effort. That’s the point about frozen buttercream frosting. Put it in your mouth at room temperature, and it’s gone very quickly. But when it’s frozen, you can enjoy the taste much longer as it melts(融化) in your mouth.

The freezer treats a lot of fruit kindly. Take frozen grapes for example, I keep a bowl of grapes in my freezer. They become a little icy, and somehow their sweetness is improved. They are perfect and healthy dessert(点心). This is the same with oranges, apples, bananas…You might think bananas would get superhard when frozen. Wrong! They become cool, creamy and sweet. If you have wisely covered some or all of the bananas with melted chocolate before putting them into the freeze, they will have a double taste.

As long as you aren’t eating anything that truly has to be hot, go ahead and experiment.

【1】What is the passage intended to tell us?

A. Fruit should be frozen before one eats it.

B. Frozen food is better than hot food.

C. The author prefers frozen food.

D. Hot food is not healthy.

【2】The author began to enjoy frozen food when he _____________.

A. was young B. learned cooking

C. got married D. got a fever

【3】Why does the author NOT advise us to take hot cookies?

A. Because they need more time to prepare.

B. Because the taste is not good when they are hot.

C. Because they are too delicious to avoid our overeating.

D. Because we may eat them quickly and enjoy them less.

【4】What does the underlined word ＂it＂ in the third paragraph refer to?

A. The taste. B. Buttercream.

C. The cookie. D. Frozen buttercream frosting.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】D

【4】D

【解析】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者与别人截然不同的爱好——喜欢吃冰箱里冷冻过的东西，并分析了自己喜欢这种吃法的原因。最后，作者建议大家也都来试一下。

【1】C推理判断题。由文章第一段中的第二、三两句I prefer food just taken out from the freezer. Fruit, candies, nuts, chocolate, cake with buttercream frosting(糖霜), even peas, all of them taste delicious when frozen.可推知作者喜欢吃冷冻食品。故选C。

【2】A细节理解题。由文章第二段第一句I was a kid when I picked up the habit.可知A项正确。

【3】D推理判断题。由文章第三段可推知我们吃冷冻的曲奇饼时可以慢慢地享受，反之，吃热的曲奇饼时我们会吃得快而不能好好地享受它们的美味，故选D项。

【4】D词义猜测题。由前文信息That’s the point about frozen buttercream frosting. Put it in your mouth at room temperature, and it’s gone very quickly. But when it’s frozen…可知，画线单词it指代frozen buttercream frosting，故D项正确。