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    　　What will man be like in the future?We can only make a guess; of course, we can be sure that he will be different from what he is today, because man is slowly changing all the time．

    　　Let's take an obvious example．Man, five hundred years ago, was shorter than he is today．Now, on the average, man is about 10 centimeters taller．So we may assume that man will continue growing taller．

    　　In modern world we use our brain a great deal．But we just use about 20％of the brain's capacity．As time goes on, we shall have to use our brains more and more, we shall even need larger ones．The brains will grow larger．

    　　Nowadays our eyes are used all the time．In fact, we use them so much and they become weaker, we have to wear glasses．But over a long time, man's eyes will grow stronger．

    　　On the other hand, we will make less use of our arms and legs．As a result, they will become weaker．At the same time, our fingers will grow stronger because they are used a great deal．

    　　But what about air?It will disappear from the earth altogether, because there are so many people．

    　　Perhaps all this gives the impressions that future man will not be a very attractive creature to look at, and this may become true．In spite of all these changes, future man will still have a lot in common with us．He will still be a human being, with thought and feelings．

    (1)

    From the passage, we can guess future man will have no ________ in appearance．

    (2)

    The underlined word“assume”in the second paragraph means________．

    [　　]

    A．

    appear

    B．

    be sure

    C．

    guess

    D．

    doubt

    (3)

    Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    In the future, our arms and legs will become stronger while our fingers will become weaker．

    B．

    In the future, our brains will grow larger and the brain's capacity will not be enough．

    C．

    In the future, man will change completely and they will have no thought and feelings．

    D．

    In the future, man will be different from what he is today, but have a lot in common with us．

    答案：1．attraction;2．C;3．D;
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    　　To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up．For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪恶的)．So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion．Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans．

    　　What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地狱)．What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits．Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch．

    　　Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet．In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”．

    　　But in the end tomatoes carried the day．The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead．”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted．”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato．Some people fainted．But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory．

    (1)

    The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________．

    [　　]

    A．

    it made Christive evil

    B．

    it was the apple of Eden

    C．

    it came from a forbidden land

    D．

    it was religiously unacceptable

    (2)

    What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

    [　　]

    A．

    The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

    B．

    There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

    C．

    The tomato was still refused in most western countries

    D．

    Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

    (3)

    What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

    [　　]

    A．

    To manke imself a hero

    B．

    To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

    C．

    To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

    D．

    To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

    (4)

    What is the main purpose of the passage?

    [　　]

    A．

    To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

    B．

    To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

    C．

    To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

    D．

    To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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