Everything was ready for the first Thanksgiving Day feast (感恩节宴会) . It was 1621. The men had been out hunting and there was much deer meat and turkey (火鸡) . The fields had yielded (生长出) their rich harvest of corn and pumpkin (南瓜). The women had been busy cooking and baking (烘烤) and the invited Indian(印第安的) guest seemed to be eating white flowers at which the pilgrims (移民) marveled (惊奇) . When the Indian saw the puzzled expressions (表情) on the white men's faces, he smiled and drew some seeds from one of the two deerskin bags which he carried. He placed them on the hot stones near the fire. Then he waited and suddenly the seeds began to hop (跳) about and to burst with a popping noise.

　　Pop! Pop! Pop!

　　The Indian laughed as the pilgrims expressed their surprise. The seeds jumped off the hot rock as they popped, and turned into the white fluffy (蓬松的) things that the Indian had taken from the first bag.

　　“Look! ” a pilgrim boy shouted. “It's magic! ”

　　The pilgrims tasted the new food and found it delicious. And that's how the pilgrims first learned about popcorn(爆玉米花).

1．Where did the deer meat and turkey for the feast come from?

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A．The author didn't tell us that.

B．They were bought in the market (市场).

C．They came from hunting.

D．They were given by friends.

2．They held (举办) the feast to ________ .

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3．Which of the following is TRUE?

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A．The Indian was eating a kind of white flowers which made the pilgrims puzzled.

B．The Indian was surprised that the pilgrims were eating white flowers.

C．The pilgrims knew very well what the Indian was eating.

D．The pilgrims had no interest in the white flowers.

4．Which of the following is NOT true?

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A．The white flowers were actually a kind of food made of corn.

B．The hot stones made the corn seeds turn into the white fluffy things－the white flowers.

C．The pilgrims learned that the white flowers the Indian was eating were called popcorn.

D．The Indian had the magic power to make the seeds hopping.

5．The passage tells us ________ .

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A．how the pilgrims celebrated the Thanksgiving Day.

B．how to make the popcorn.

C．about the magic power of the Indian.

D．about a kind of plant－the white flower.

George Washington Carver was born in 1864. He was born a slave(奴隶). When he was still a baby, his mother was stolen. He was kept by his master.

All his life George loved  31  . When he was only seven years old, he already knew so  32   about plants that people in his hometown called him “the plant doctor”.

George wanted to learn as much as he could, but there was no   33   for black children where he lived. When he was ten, he left home to find a town that would allow   34   children to attend school. He studied in Missouri and Kansas   35   he finished high school. All this time he had to work to   36   his own expense(费用). He worked as a cook and opened his own laundry.

In 1890, George began college. At first he studied art, but he still had a   37   of plants. He began to study agriculture(农业). After he graduated, the famous inventor Thomas Edison asked him to work in his lab but George   38   . He had other   39  . He started an agricultural organization for black students in Alabama.

In those days, many   40   in the south grew only cotton. This was   41   to the soil(土壤). After a while the   42    would not grow as well. George Washington Carver wanted to help farmers in the south to grow plants like peanuts and sweet potatoes. These plants helped the  43  . Over the years he invented hundreds of ways to use these two plants.

George Washington Carver invented so many things that he was   44   “The Wizard(能手) of  Tuskegee”. He died in 1943 at the   45   of 79.

1. A. animals      B. plants       C. buildings       D. photos

2. A. much        B. many       C. little           D. few

3. A. house        B. farm       C. hospital        D. school

4. A. brown       B. yellow      C. black          D. white

5. A. when        B. until        C. for            D. since

6. A. cost         B. spend       C. pay            D. take

7. A. love         B. hate        C. question        D. surprise

8. A. accepted     B. refused      C. understood      D. cared

9. A. situations    B. suggestions   C. plays          D. plans

10. A. farmers      B. scientists     C. doctors        D. inventors

11. A. helpful      B. harmful      C. careful         D. wonderful

12. A. pumpkin     B. peanut       C. cotton         D. potato

13. A. soil         B. water        C. air           D. weather

14. A. seen        B. look         C. found         D. called

15. A. time        B. year         C. age           D. season