Question

【題目】Eating in different areas

All around the world, everyone has to eat.【1】

What people eat is related to where they live.【2】For example, the cold weather near the North Pole (北極) means that few plants can grow there.【3】

In Northern China, corn and wheat grow well because of the dry weather. 【4】 People there usually grow and eat rice because their land is near lakes or rivers. They do this also because there is much rain.

The land and weather in Central America is good for growing cocoa trees. Cocoa trees may have gotten their start on the lower slopes of the Andes Mountains. Cocoa trees can only live in hot, rainy places near the Equator. Chocolate is made from the seeds named cocoa beans in the fruit of these trees.【5】Chocolate has become the food that people can’t live without.

A. However, it is different in the South.

B. People decide what to grow in the fields based on the local weather.

C. Almost every home there has its own way of making chocolate.

D. But people in different areas eat different things.

E. Therefore, the local people live only by fishing and catching animals.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】B

【3】E

【4】A

【5】C

【解析】

本篇是一篇說明文。介紹了在世界上不同地區(qū)由于氣候不同，人們選擇不同的食材。主要以中國北方和中美洲為例介紹了不同區(qū)域的食材差異。

【1】上文提到全世界的人都必須吃東西。下文又說人們吃什么是由他們住在哪里決定的。所以中間選D，但是人們在不同的區(qū)域吃不同的食物。這個承接上文和下文的理解意思。故選D。

【2】前一句講人們吃什么是由他們住在哪里決定的，后面一句講住在北極附近的人不能種出植物，所以中間應該是人們根據(jù)當?shù)氐奶鞖鈦頉Q定在地里種什么。故選B。

【3】上文提及住在北極附近的人不能種出植物，所以后面應跟他們只能通過釣魚和打獵為生。故選E。

【4】上文提到在中國的北方，玉米和小麥由于干燥的天氣所以長勢很好，下文又說人們經(jīng)常吃大米，因為他們住在湖或者江邊，前后兩句講的是不同的生活方式，故中間應是然而在南方是不同的。故選A。

【5】前一句講巧克力是由可可樹果實中的可可豆種子制成的，后面一句講巧克力已經(jīng)成為人們不能沒有的食物，中間應該用一句表示連接的句子，幾乎每個家庭都有自己制作巧克力的方法。故選C。

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