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Most people may not think that there are any problems. With watermelons, but some Japanese sellers do. There is often wasted space when they store watermelons, because round watermelons do not sit nicely on shelves. So some clever farmers have solved the watermelon problem. They make their watermelons grow in square glass boxes so the watermelons become square. The only problem now is the price. The square watermelons cost about 80 dollars each.

Many people know the saying “Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you.” Well, today the poem needs to change to “Roses are red, roses are blue”! Australian scientists have just recently discovered that when they put a chemical from a blue flower into a rose, they can create a nearly 100% blue rose. Some of science’s inventions are beautiful, not just useful!

Since the mid-1990s, many Chinese farmers have had amazing rice harvests. For many years Chinese scientists have been working on developing new kinds of stronger rice and now they have produced a new kind, called super rice. Super rice not only can protect itself against insects and diseases, but it also produces more than any other kind of rice, Today farmers can grow almost one and a half times more rice than they could grow in the past.

Doctors might be able to use vegetables to fight cancer now. US scientists have discovered a way to put a chemical into tomato plants while they are growing. When cancer patients eat the tomatoes, the tomatoes will fight the cancer in their bodies. These cancer-fighting vegetables are not yet for sale, because scientists have not finished testing them. If study finds no problems with the tomatoes, then patients can begin to use this easy and delicious new treatment.

46. The square watermelons look like _______________.

   

47. __________ find a way to make blue roses.

A. Chinese scientists                B. English scientists

B. Australian scientists                 C. American scientists

48. What’s the meaning of the underlined word “super”?

A. 晚餐         B. 超级的          C. 伟大的         D. 可爱的

49. Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Super rice can keep itself from insects.

B. Blue roses are more beautiful than red ones.

C. The tomatoes can fight many kinds of diseases.

D. The price of the square watermelons is very low.

50. The main idea of this passage is ___________.

A. how scientists discover new plants

B. how science makes plants produce more

C. how science has changed plants and people’s lives

D. how useful the scientists are

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     Peopl eat different things in different parts of the world.
     In the south of China people eat rice every day. Sometimes they eat it two or three__1__ a day, for breakfast,lunch or dinner. They usually eat it  with
fish, meat and vegetables.
    The Japanese eat__2__,too. They also eat a lot of fish. They sometimes eat raw(生的)fish. In Africa, maize(玉米)is the most important__3__. People
there make maize into flour(面粉).From the flour they__4__different kinds of bread and cakes.
     In Western__5__such as in Britain,and in the USA,the most important
food is bread and potatoes. People there__6__make bread from wheat flour. They cook potatoes__7__different ways. In Endgland the most popular food is fish and chips. __8__ people cook this food at home. They eat it at their
workplace, in the park__9__even on the road. People__10__ it take-away
food.
(     )1. A. kinds      
(     )2. A. rice      
(     )3. A. fruit      
(     )4. A. do        
(     )5. A. villages  
(     )6. A. never      
(     )7. A. with      
(     )8. A. Some time  
(     )9. A. and        
(     )10.A. give      
B. times      
B. fish      
B. vegetables
B. make      
B. countries  
B. usually    
B. for        
B. Sometime  
B. because    
B. call      
C. ways      
C. bread      
C. food      
C. get        
C. cities    
C. hardly    
C. in        
C. Some times
C. but        
C. say        
D. numbers  
D. potatoes
D. drink    
D. buy      
D. places  
D. ever    
D. of      
D. Sometimes
D. so      
D. ask      

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