题目
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was a chef (厨师长) at a beautiful restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York. A regular dish on the menu
was fried (油炸的) potatoes, which was an ides that had started in France. At that time, French fried potatoes
were cut into thick slices (片).
One day, a dinner guest at the restaurant sent back his fried potatoes to the chef because he did not like
them so thick. So Mr Crum cut the potatoes a little thinner and fried them. The guest did not like those either.
That made Mr Crum angry, so he thought he would just show the man. He sliced the potatoes paper-thin and
fried them, thinking that the man would say nothing about it. However, to his surprise, the man loved the thin
potatoes very much. Other guests tried them and liked them. So, Mr Crum"s potato chips were added to the
menu. They were called Saratoga Chips.
Finally, Mr Crum opened his own restaurant to sell his famous chips. Now potato chips are packaged (包
装) and sold in stores.
Who invented 1______? | |||||||||||||||||||
2______ was an American chef at a restaurant. | |||||||||||||||||||
A dinner guest 3______ his fried potatoes to the chef because ther were so thick. | |||||||||||||||||||
The chef was probably glad in the end because 4______. | |||||||||||||||||||
New potato chips are packaged and sold 5______. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1. potato chips 2. Mr Crum(Crum) 3. sent back 4. he opened his own restaurant to sell chips 5. in stores | |||||||||||||||||||
| 综合填空。根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。每空限填一词。 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Bill and Simon were good friends. One summer they were on (1)h______. They wanted to sail around the Caribbean Sea in their boat for two weeks. During their trip, they saw many whales. Bill and Simon were very (2)e______ because they had wanted to see them very much. Unluckily, (3)w______ they were watching them, the whales began to hit the side of the boat. Suddenly, (4)w______ started coming in, and they realized that they were in trouble. They (5)q______ jumped into the lifeboat before the sank (沉没), and watched it disappear under the sea. Luckily, they had enough food and water for about twenty (6)d______. They also had a fishing line and a machine which could change sea water (7)i______ drinking water. These two things helped them to survive (存活) during their terrible experience. For the next fifty days they caught about ten fish a day and (8)a______ them. They saw about twenty ships, but although they waved and shouted when the ships were passing, (9)n______ saw them. They were becoming weaker and weaker. Then, just as they were beginning to (10)l______ hope, a fishing boat saved them. | |||||||||||||||||||
阅读理解填词。 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sally was a student in a small town. It was going to her mother"s birthday. She wanted to buy her a present that would be nice and useful but not (1)e______. She went (2)s______ after a quick and simple lunch. After she looked for about forty minutes, she found a shop that was selling cheap umbrellas, and she (3)d______ to take a black one. She thought, "Mom can carry it when she is wearing clothes of (4)a______ color." So she bought a lovely black umbrella and took it to school with her until her class finished. On her way home on the train she felt (5)h______. So she went to the buffet car (餐车). She left the umbrella on her (6)s______. But when she returned, it had gone. Sally began to cry. The other passengers felt very sorry for her and asked what the matter was. She told them the black umbrella she bought for her mother had gone, and she had to get off at the next station. After the three passengers (7)h______ this , they asked her for her mother"s (8)a______so that they could send the umbrella to her if someone took it by mistake (弄错) and brought it (9)b______. And now a week passed. Sally got a letter from her mother. It said, "Thank you very much for your lovely (10)g______, but why do you send me three black umbrellas?" | |||||||||||||||||||
| 完形填空。 | |||||||||||||||||||
| "Who did this?" Mrs. Green asked with a piece of broken glass in her hand. She had never been so 1 with us. The classroom was so quiet. All students looked at the window except me. I kept my head 2 . I knew it was me. I broke it when I practiced 3 baseball. But should I tell the truth? If I did, I would be in trouble, I didn"t have enough 4 . How could I afford to buy such an expensive window? I really didn"t want to put up my hand, 5 at last I said. "I did it. I am sorry." It was not 6 for me to say those words. Mrs. Green went to the book shelf and took down a book. Then she walked to me. Looking at 7 , I was a little afraid. To my surprise, she said, "I know you like 8 . Here is the book about them. It"s yours now. I give it to you not because you broke the window, but because you are 9 ." I couldn"t believe it. I wasn"t punished (惩罚). However, I was given my favorite book about birds. It happened 20 years ago, but I still 10 the book. The lesson my teacher taught me that day will be in my heart forever. | |||||||||||||||||||
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