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【题目】Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.

Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.

People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.

Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid. It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.

【1】A good title for this reading passage is______.

A. Popeye the Sailor B. The Truth About Spinach

C. Mistake with Numbers D. Folic Acid Makes You Strong

【2】Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?

A. They thought spinach made them strong.

B. They thought Popeye was funny.

C. Spinach had a lot of iron.

D. People liked folic acid.

【3】 A research group told people that spinach______.

A. made Popeye strong

B. was a green vegetable

C. had less iron than other green vegetables

D. had more iron than other green vegetables

【4】 The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.

A. iron B. folic acid

C. spinach D. exercise

【5】Folic acid is ______.

A. something in food B. a vegetable

C. dangerous D. a certain kind of spinach

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】A

【3】D

【4】B

【5】A

【解析】

试题分析:本文是一篇日常生活类文章，大力水手的热播使得许多人爱上了吃菠菜，甚至一些以前不爱吃的小孩子也爱上了它。人们认为菠菜里的铁能够让人变得和大力水手一样强壮，事实上这是错误的。反而是菠菜里的叶酸对人体有好处。

【1】B主旨大意题。本文介绍了人们对菠菜的误解，和现在科学对菠菜的认识，是对菠菜的一个探究，B选项The Truth About Spinach最符合题意，故选B。

【2】A细节理解题。根据第二段 Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong. 可知人们认为菠菜使得大力水手强壮，自己也想变得强壮就吃菠菜，选A。

【3】D细节理解题。根据第三段This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did.研究人员告诉人们菠菜含有更多的铁元素，故选D。

【4】B细节理解题。文章末段提到Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.由此判断也许大力水手是因为菠菜的叶酸才变得这么强壮的，故选B。

【5】A 推理判断题。根据文章末尾However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.可知folic acid是菠菜里含有的一种物质，故选A。