阅读下面短文，简要回答问题。

Baloney is a kind of sausage that many Americans eat often. The word also has another meaning in English. It is used to describe something—usually something someone says—that is false or wrong or foolish.

Baloney sausage comes from the name of the Italian city, Bologna. The city is famous for its sausage, a mixture of smoked, spiced meat from cows and pigs. But, boloney sausage does not taste the same as beef or pork alone.

Some language experts think this different taste is responsible for the birth of the expression baloney. Baloney is an idea or statement that is nothing like the truth...in the same way that baloney sausage tastes nothing like the meat that is used to make it.

Baloney is a word often used by politicians to describe the ideas of their opponents.

The expression has been used for years. Fifty years ago, a former governor of New York State, Alfred Smith, criticized some claims by President Franklin Roosevelt about the successes of the Roosevelt administration. Smith said, “No matter how thin you slice it, it is still baloney.”

A similar word has almost the same meaning as baloney. It even sounds almost the same. The word is blarney. It began in Ireland about 1600.

The lord of Blarney castle, near Cork, agreed to surrender the castle to British troops. But he kept making excuses for postponing the surrender. And, he made them sound like very good excuses, “this is just more of the same blarney.”

The Irish castle now is famous for its Blarney stone. Kissing the stone is thought to give a person special powers of speech. One who has kissed the Blarney stone, so the story goes, can speak words of praise so smoothly and sweetly that you believe them, even when you know they are false.

73.Find in the passage a word closest in meaning to the underlined word “baloney”.

74.According to Americans, what does baloney refer to? (回答词数不超过8个)

75.What do you know about the lord of Blarney castle, near Cork?  (回答词数不超过6个)

ple — their clothes, ideas, or languages—has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree(可可树)by South American. Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500’s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.
The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Eu??rope, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish peo??ple starved when the crop failed during the "Potato Famine (饥荒)" of 1845—1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.
There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world’s largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.
according to an. Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee, bush. He tried one and experienced the " wide-awake" feeling that one third of the world’s population now starts the day with.

1. 1.

   according to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?

   1. A.
      Food.
   2. B.
      Clothing.
   3. C.
      Ideology.
   4. D.
      Language.
2. 2.

   The word "some" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to________.

   1. A.
      some cocoa trees
   2. B.
      some chocolate drinks.
   3. C.
      some shops
   4. D.
      some South American Indians
3. 3.

   Thousands of Irish people starved during the " Potato Famine" because________

   1. A.
      they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else
   2. B.
      they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America
   3. C.
      the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes
   4. D.
      the potato harvest was bad
4. 4.

   according to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

   1. A.
      One third of the world’s population drinks coffee.
   2. B.
      Coffee is native to Colombia.
   3. C.
      Coffee can keep one awake.
   4. D.
      Coffee drinks were first made by Arabs.

ple — their clothes, ideas, or languages—has changed as much as what they eat. The original chocolate drink was made from the seeds of the cocoa tree(可可树)by South American. Indians. The Spanish introduced it to the rest of the world during the 1500’s. And although it was very expensive, it quickly became fashionable. In London, shops where chocolate drinks were served became important meeting places. Some still exist today.

The potato is also from the New World. Around 1600, the Spanish brought it from Peru to Eu??rope, where it soon was widely grown. Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish peo??ple starved when the crop failed during the "Potato Famine (饥荒)" of 1845—1846, and thousands more were forced to leave their homeland and move to America.

There are many other foods that have traveled from South America to the Old World. But some others went in the opposite direction. Brazil is now the world’s largest grower of coffee, and coffee is an important crop in Colombia and other South American countries. But it is native to Ethiopia, a country in Africa. It was first made into a drink by Arabs during the 1400’s.

according to an. Arabic legend, coffee was discovered when a person named Kaldi noticed that his goats were attracted to the red berries on a coffee, bush. He tried one and experienced the " wide-awake" feeling that one third of the world’s population now starts the day with.

according to the passage, which of the following has changed the most in the last 500 years?

A. Food.      B. Clothing.           C. Ideology.           D. Language.

The word "some" in the last sentence of the first paragraph refers to________.

A. some cocoa trees                    B. some chocolate drinks.

C. some shops                           D. some South American Indians

Thousands of Irish people starved during the " Potato Famine" because________

A. they were so dependent on potatoes that they refused to eat anything else

B. they were forced to leave their homeland and move to America

C. the weather conditions in Ireland were not suitable for growing potatoes

D. the potato harvest was bad

according to the passage, which of the following statements is NOT true?

A. One third of the world’s population drinks coffee.

B. Coffee is native to Colombia.

C. Coffee can keep one awake.

D. Coffee drinks were first made by Arabs.

完成句子（共16空，每空1分，满分16分）
【小题1】她一旦下了决心，什么也不能使她改变。
­­­­­­­­­    ________she has made up her mind, nothing can______ it.
【小题2】我不愿像大多数人那样在日记中记流水账。
I don’t want to ____  ______a series of facts in a diary as most people do.
【小题3】比如，有天晚上天气很暖和，我熬到11点半故意不睡觉，为的是独自好好看看月亮。
For example, one evening when it was so warm, I stayed awake____ _________until half past eleven ____ ______  ______have a good look at the moon by myself.
【小题4】所以到17世纪，莎士比亚所用的词汇量比以前任何时期都大。
So by the 1600’s Shakespeare was able to _______   _____  _____a wider vocabulary than ever before.
【小题5】从高中起，我姐姐王薇和我就一直梦想作一次了不起的自行车旅行。
Ever since middle school, my sister Wang Wei and I have ________ ________ taking a great bike trip.
【小题6】她给了我一个坚定的眼神-----这种眼神表明她是不会改变主意的。
She gave me a _______________ ________--- the kind that said she would not change her mind.