Question

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

Most of the foods we eat today were at one time or another not known to man. One by one they are   1and became a part of our everyday  2. Very often the person, who was the first to  3these foods, however, had to be a person of  4. Who, for 5, ate the first crab（蟹）and who, the first mushroom？ 

When  6and coffee were first introduced to  7in the eighteenth century, there were many   8for and against their use. Some people claimed（宣称）that they were   9, and that, if drunk over long periods of time, they would kill  10. In Sweden, King Gustav III decided to find out whether these  11were true or false. It  12happened that there were two brothers who were in  13at the time；they were twins and were almost exactly alike in every 14. They had also been sentenced to 15. The King decided to let them live if one of them 16to drink several cups of tea each day and the other, several cups of  17each day. 

Both brothers lived many years without any 18of any kind. At last one brother who  19to drink tea every day died at the age of 74 and   20died a few years later. Because of the way the experiment had turned out, Sweden is today one of the countries in the world where much tea and coffee are drunk. 

1.A. introduced    B. produced       C. added          D. changed

2.A. drink          B. cost          C. diet              D. interest

3.A. cook           B. discover       C. try            D. check

4.A. success       B. courage         C. practice        D. will

5.A. free          B. ever            C. long            D. example

6.A. tea           B. tobacco        C. milk            D. chocolate

7.A. America          B. Europe         C. Africa         D. England

8.A. attempts      B. decisions      C. opinions        D. advice

9.A. different     B. common            C. plants         D. poisonous

10.A. a person       B. themselves     C. others          D. ourselves

11.A. wishes        B. decisions       C. doubts        D. conversations

12.A. so            B. very              C. too              D. much

13.A. school         B. hospital        C. danger          D. prison

14.A. day            B. way             C. part           D. photograph

15.A. death          B. dead            C. die             D. dying

16.A. agreed         B. pleased         C. allowed         D. prepared

17.A. milk           B. water           C. coffee          D. orange

18.A. food            B. problems      C. taste            D. happiness

19.A. had            B. enjoyed         C. allowed         D. insisted

20.A. others         B. other           C. another         D. the other

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.C

4.B

5.D    

6.A

7.B

8.C

9.D

10.A     

11.C

12.A

13.D

14.B

15.A       

16.A

17.C

18.B

19.A

20.D