Pizza: the World’s Favorite Food
Food, and the way we eat it, is always changing. As society develops, we learn of growing, processing, and cooking food. What we ate 200 years ago was very different from what we eat today. Also, when people travel to live in other countries, they take their knowledge of cooking with them. And food must fit modem lifestyles and local tastes, too. One food that has done this successfully is the pizza.
The pizza we recognize today first appeared in Italy in 1889. A famous baker from Naples made a special pizza for the Italian royal （王室的） family. He was very worried they wouldn’t like it but they did. Queen Margherita loved the dish so much, and the baker named it after her. Since then, this simple meal of bread, cheese, and tomato has traveled the world, and it has adapted to local cultures. The pizza began its journey in the 1890s, when many Italians moved to New York in search of a better life. There they continued to make pizzas, and the first pizzeria opened in 1905.
At first it was only popular with Italians, but by the late 1940s, Americans discovered a taste for it. Today, they spend ＄37 billion a year on pizzas. That’s more than ＄100 per American!
The pizza continued its travels around the world, adapting all the time. In Sweden, for example, it is usual to have bananas on pizzas. In Belgium, people eat chocolate pizzas with marshmallows on top. Japan is a nation of seafood lovers, so not surprisingly, they love octopus and squid, as well as roasted seaweed, toppings. Australians sometimes choose kangaroo or crocodile on their pizza.
The popularity of the pizza is also related to our changing lifestyles. In today’s super-fast society, people often don’t have the time or energy to cook. So, they order takeout—and very often, it’s a pizza. Sometimes you don’t even have to pick it up; it’s delivered to your home. If you don’t even have time to sit down, buy a single slice and eat it standing up!
The pizza has come a long way. From its beginnings m an Italian city, it has grown to become one of the world’s favorite foods.
1.The pizza first appeared as ________.
A.a homemade white bread B.a fast food for travelers
C.a dish for the royal family D.a popular local food
2.When did the pizza arrive in New York?
A.In 1889. B.In the 1890s.
C.In 1905. D.In the 1940s.
3.In which country do people love pizzas with bananas on top?
A.Japan. B.Belgium.
C.Sweden. D.Australia.
4.The passage mainly tells us ________.
A.how the pizza gets popular B.who made the first pizza
C.how the pizza is made D.where the pizza came from
This month Angelina Horsefield writes about an animal rescue （援救） society in Australia: WIRES |
WIRES （Wildlife Information and Rescue Service） began in 1985 when someone found an injured bird in a park in Sydney, Australia. At the time, no one knew how to help this “native” animal. WIRES help animals like snakes, kangaroos and, of course, birds. However, they can only help Australian wildlife, so they can’t help other animals like cats or rabbits. Like other animal rescue groups, WIRES need more people. I believe they are helping the local animals, but they can only continue if others join in. They hold excellent courses, where people can learn what to do when they find an injured animal. They also explain what happens to the animals in their care. Many of the people who help also lake care of the animals themselves in their own gardens or on their farms. I spoke to 15-year-old Guy McKenzie, whose dad helps WIRES in his free time. Guy told me about the work they do. “Dad usually gets a phone call at home and drives immediately to where the animal is, to rescue it. He has special equipment and always wears gloves. The animals are wild, after all.” Guy also talked about a woman who found a bat in her garden. She thought it might be dead but then she noticed that there was a baby bat too. Guy’s dad brought it back to the centre, where it grew into a healthy adult. Then, WIRES returned it to nature. Guy showed me a baby kangaroo that his dad was looking after and told me that one day he’ll be doing the same thing. Yes, he will, for sure. |
1.WIRES aim at helping ________.
A.pet animals B.wildlife animals
C.small animals D.farm animals
2.Guy’s dad is an example to show ________.
A.who started WIRES B.how one helps WIRES
C.why people join WIRES D.how WIRES study animals
3.What does Guy hope to do in the future?
A.Live in nature. B.Take care of his dad.
C.Study bats. D.Work for WIRES.
4.The author writes the passage in order to ________.
A.describe a course on animals B.introduce an animal scientist
C.call on people to join the rescue group D.give advice on keeping pets
There is no school equal to a decent（体面的）home and no teacher equal to a virtuous（有德行的） parent.
Dad was an English teacher who taught high school students. Mom _______ home and homeschooled their four children Three of us had no trouble _______ but my sister Catherine still could not _______ by fifth grade, and worse still, did not even know the alphabet（字母表）.
My mother did some research and _______ that Catherine had some sort of learning disability. She sent Catherine to a public school to get some help. Catherine made many friends at school and _______ everyone with her gift for telling creative stories in class, _______ she still couldn’t master reading. _______ all the testing was done, the school had my parents come in They were told that based on the test results, they should just take Catherine home.
Tears of _______ ran down my dad’s cheeks, but my mom’s jaw was set in quiet determination. As they walked back to the car, she turned to him and said, “I know she’s not _______.”
Soon after, my mom discovered a learning system that focused heavily on lesson repetition and building slowly on the previous exercises. She worked with __________ for four hours every morning while the rest of us studied on our own. It was __________ for both of them, but she often told a crying Catherine, “ __________ is not an option. You are going to learn to read, or we’ll both try! You have to learn to read! You will learn to read.”
In time, Catherine __________ it. By the time she graduated from eighth grade, she was reading almost at grade level. She continued __________ and was reading above grade level when she graduated from high school.
Catherine came to love reading and writing. All of this because of a wonderfully devoted mother who was absolutely the best __________ ever—for all four of us.
1.A.left B.stayed C.came D.went
2.A.learning B.playing C.talking D.walking
3.A.listen B.speak C.read D.write
4.A.pretended B.wished C.advised D.found
5.A.amazed B.hurt C.bored D.praised
6.A.or B.so C.for D.but
7.A.If B.Although C.Unless D.After
8.A.hope B.sadness C.anger D.sickness
9.A.shy B.sorry C.polite D.stupid
10.A.Catherine B.my father C.me D.her friends
11.A.interesting B.fair C.hard D.good
12.A.Kindness B.Failure C.Courage D.Pressure
13.A.changed B.shared C.got D.checked
14.A.forgetting B.improving C.explaining D.noticing
15.A.teacher B.classmate C.researcher D.learner
假定你是李华，你的美国朋友 Peter 想提高中文水平，进一步了解中国文化。请给他写一封信，推荐学习资源 (resource)。内容包括：
1. 学习资源：报纸、杂志及其他途径；
2. 推荐理由；
3. 表达祝愿。
注意：1. 词数 100 左右；
2. 可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯；
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。
文中共有 10 处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号(∧)，并在其下面写出该加的词。删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。
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Last weekend, my parents told me a good news that my family would go camping with my uncle’s family.I feel so excited about it, because I could spend the whole night outside,which had never been happened before.When the day came, we brought the equipments and some food. In the afternoon, the two families settled down, and then they started to walk around. My cousins and I rushed to a forest and went to the highest point, there we could appreciate the whole sight. Stood on the highest place, I felt so greatly. We enjoyed a grander sight by climbing a greater height. At night, we set fire and danced happily. It was so a happy moment for me.
During the winter vacation,I was involved in an image-processing project. My task was to extract（提取）the shape of every cell from a(n)__ of microscope images. It seemed quite straightforward at first,but it turned out to be __.
Since I did not have any experience in image processing,I studied some basic ___on my own and started to use a very popular function library(函数库）called OpenCV. As the time was __,I just learnt to apply techniques without going into the mathematical rationale(原理）。As a result,I didn't complete the task in an efficient way and____lots of time.
Through this project,I got a good __ of the importance of studying the basic knowledge. I will probably ___to spend more time studying the theory before I ___another project. By learning their underlying mechanisms(机制），I will be able to ___the tools to suit my own needs. In this way,1 may achieve___ results.
Another challenge I met was about the brightness setting. When I sketched(勾勒）the __ of the cell by the computer,I first set the brightness value to 50,___that the computer could delete the dark places and extract the shape of the cell___. But it turned out that the standard didn't fit for every image. So 1____the brightness value to 30,but that didn't __ either. It was very hard to find a value that worked for all ____
From this,I began to appreciate human eyes. Our eyes ___the amount of light entering them automatically through a feedback system to achieve the best image representation,but computers are not that __. There is still so much that we don't know about the human body.
In summary,I think it is good for students to be involved in real projects___ they can begin to learn about various fundamental ___and get themselves ready for the future.
1.A.collection B.addiction C.measurement D.accumulation
2.A.simple B.dangerous C.skeptical D.challenging
3.A.items B.techniques C.concepts D.contents
4.A.limited B.previous C.permanent D.equal
5.A.saved B.postponed C.appreciated D.wasted
6.A.use B.sense C.knowledge D.belief
7.A.enjoy B.decline C.choose D.demand
8.A.turn down B.set about C.put forward D.make out
9.A.evaluate B.settle C.dispose D.handle
10.A.better B.quicker C.easier D.closer
11.A.character B.figure C.movement D.outline
12.A.declaring B.requiring C.hoping D.recommending
13.A.automatically B.willingly C.deliberately D.rapidly
14.A.attached B.applied C.changed D.appealed
15.A.work B.solve C.achieve D.gain
16.A.results B.images C.places D.theories
17.A.absorb B.accept C.adjust D.delete
18.A.accessible B.ambitious C.fashionable D.intelligent
19.A.when B.because C.although D.unless
20.A.conclusions B.functions C.systems D.principles
