Question

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 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.A Mistake with Numbers

D. Folic Acid Makes You Strong

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

A. People liked folic acid.

B. They thought Popeye was funny.

C. Spinach had a lot of iron.

D. They thought spinach made them strong.

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. ironB. spinachC. folic acidD. exercise

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.D

3.D

4.C

【解析】

試題分析：從二十世紀三十年代動畫片《大力水手》的播映以來，菠菜成了人們餐桌上必不可少的一道菜，人們都認為菠菜所含的鐵會賦予人力量。事實上，菠菜里含的鐵并不比別的蔬菜多，只是菠菜中的葉酸才能夠使人身體強壯，在本文中作者揭示了這一事實。

1.

2.

3.

4.

考點 ：考查科普類閱讀。