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The favorite food in the United States is the hamburger. The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant. At fast food restaurant, people order their food, wait a few minutes, and carry it to their tables themselves. People also take their food out of the restaurant and eat it in their cars or in their homes. At some fast food restaurant, people can order their food, pay for it and pick it up without leaving their cars.

There are many kinds of fast food restaurants in the United States. The greatest in number sell hamburgers, French fries and so on. They are popular among Americans. Besides, fast food restaurants that serve Chinese food, Mexican food, Italian food, chicken, seafood and ice-cream are very many. The idea of a fast food restaurant is so popular that nearly every kind of food can be found in one.

Fast food restaurants are popular because they reflect(反映) American lifestyle. Customers (顾客)can wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place. Second, they are fast. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone prepares it. In fast food restaurants, food is not expensive. Therefore, people often buy and eat at a fast restaurant, while they may not be able to go to a more expensive restaurant very often.

小题1:In the United States the favorite food is ____.

A.Chinese food

B.Mexican food

C.French fries

D.the hamburger小题2:Americans like to go to fast food restaurants because they _______________.

A.can easily find fast food restaurant

B.like to eat hamburger and French fries

C.are too busy to want to spend time preparing or waiting

D.are so rich that they don’t want to do cooking themselves小题3: _______ of fast food restaurants sell hamburgers and French fries.

A.All

B.Most

C.Few

D.None小题4: The food in fast food restaurant is ____ ready before the customers order it.

A.always

B.usually

C.seldom

D.never小题5:The best title for the passage is ______.

A. The Fast Food Restaurants in the U.S.A.

B. The Hamburger in the U.S.A.

C. American Life Style

D. All Kinds of Food in the U.S.A.

答案

小题1:D

小题2:C

小题3:B

小题4:B

小题5:A

题目分析:本文描写了在美国最受欢迎的地方-----快餐店.。本文记述了快餐店被人喜欢的原因,在快餐店,友人们最喜欢的汉堡,而且人们还会外带他们的食物,在车上或在家里吃。此外,品类齐全快而不贵,所以受人喜欢。

小题1:细节理解题 。根据首句“The favorite food in the United States is the hamburger.在美国最喜欢的食物是汉堡”可知答案,故选D。

小题2:细节理解题 。由“Second, they are fast. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone prepares it. 第二,他们很快。很忙的人不想花时间准备自己的食物或是等待某人做。”可得出答案,故选C。

小题3:细节理解题 。由“The greatest in number sell hamburgers, French fries and so on,大多数都卖汉堡和炸薯条等等”可以得出答案,故选B。

小题4:推理判断题。由“Second, they are fast. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone prepares it. 第二,他们很快。很忙的人不想花时间准备自己的食物或是等待某人做。”特别是“while someone prepares it等待某人做”可以推测出是准备好的,一直always不符合情理,故选B。

小题5:标题归纳题。结合全文,由最喜爱的食物引出最主要的美国快餐店,全文都是围绕快餐店展开介绍,故选A 。

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In the early 1960s Wilt Chamberlain was one of the only three players in the National Basketball Association (NBA) listed at over seven feet. If he had played last season, however, he would have been one of 42. The bodies playing major professional sports have changed dramatically over the years, and managers have been more than willing to adjust team uniforms to fit the growing numbers of bigger, longer frames.

The trend in sports, though, may be obscuring an unrecognized reality: Americans have generally stopped growing. Though typically about two inches taller now than 140 years ago, today’ s people—especially those born to families who have lived in the U. S. for many generations--apparently reached their limit in the early 1960s. And they aren’t likely to get any taller. "In the general population to- day, at this genetic, environmental level, we’ve pretty much gone as far as we can go," says anthropologist William Cameron Chumlea of Wright State University. In the case of NBA players, their in- crease in height appears to result from the increasingly common practice of recruiting players from all over the world.

Growth, which rarely continues beyond the age of 20, demands calories and nutrients—notably, protein—to feed expanding tissues. At the start of the 20th century, under-nutrition and childhood infections got in the way. But as diet and health improved, children and adolescents have, on average, increased in height by about an inch and a half every 20 years, a pattern known as the secular trend in height. Yet according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, average height—5’9" for men, 5’4" for women—hasn’t really changed since 1960.

Genetically speaking, there are advantages to avoiding substantial height. During childbirth, larger babies have more difficulty passing through the birth canal. Moreover, even though humans have been upright for millions of years, our feet and back continue to struggle with bipedal posture and can- not easily withstand repeated strain imposed by oversize limbs. "There are some real constraints that are set by the genetic architecture of the individual organism," says anthropologist William Leonard of Northwestern University.

Genetic maximums can change, but don’t expect this to happen soon. Claire C. Gordon, senior anthropologist at the Army Research Center in Natick, Mass. , ensures that 90 percent of the uniforms and workstations fit recruits without alteration. She says that, unlike those for basketball, the length of military uniforms has not changed for some time. And if you need to predict human height in the near future to design a piece of equipment, Gordon says that by and large, "you could use today’s data and feel fairly confident.\

Wilt Chamberlain is cited as an example to()

A. illustrate the change of height of NBA players

B. show the popularity of NBA players in the U.S

C. compare different generations of NBA players

D. assess the achievements of famous NBA players