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根据短文回答 36~40 题。
New Foods and the New World
In the last 500 years, nothing about People -- not 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 Europe, where it soon was widely grown Ireland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people 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 ut 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
第 36 题 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

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A) that B) which C) who D) when

When playing a game you should ask your child to find something starting with the

A. Right
B. Wrong
C. Not mentioned

请选择(4)处的最佳答案

A. opposing
B. limiting
C. including
D. asking

根据短文回答 51~65 题。
Where Did All the Ships Go?
The Bermuda Triangle (三角区) is one ________(1) the greatest mysteries of the sea. In this triangular area between Florida, Puerto Rico and Bermuda in Atlantic, ships and airplanes ________(2) to disappear more often than in _______ (3)parts of the ocean. And they do so _______ (4) leaving any sign of an accident or any dead bodies.
It is _______ (5) that Christopher Columbus was the first person to record strange happenings in the area. His compass stopped working, A flame came down from the sky, and A wave 100 to 200-feet-high carried his ship about A mile away.
The most famous disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle was the US Naval (海军的) Air Flight 19. _______ (6) December 5, 1945, five bomber planes carrying 14 men _______ (7) on A training mission from the Florida coast. Later that day, all communications with Flight 19 were lost. They just disappeared without A trace.
The next morning, 242 planes and 19 ships took part in the largest air-sea search in history. But they found nothing.
Some people blame the disappearances _______ (8) supernatural (超自然的) forces. It is suggested the ________(9) ships and planes were either transported to other times and places, kidnapped (绑架) by aliens'(外星人)_______(10) attacked by sea creatures.
There are _______ (11) natural explanations, though. The US Navy says that the Bermuda Triangle is one of two places on earth ________ (12) A magnetic compass (指南针) points towards true north _______(13) magnetic north.
______(14), planes and ships can lose their way if they don't make adjustments.
The area also has changing weather and is known _______ (15) its high waves. Storms can turn up suddenly and destroy A plane or ship. Fast currents could then sweep away any trace of an accident.
第 51 题 请选择(1)处的最佳答案。

A. from
B. of
C. about
D. on

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