新视野视听说教程第二册quiz
of hunger rather than eat potatoes. Today, many countries have their own potato dishes. Germans eat potato salad, the United States has the baked potato, and the French invented French fries.
11. Which statement is true?
A. Potatoes are only popular in France.
B. Potatoes are not very popular today.
C. Potatoes are the most important crop in the world.
D. Potatoes were not very popular in the past.
12. In the 1500s, people in Europe ________.
A. found gold and potatoes from Peru
B. found potatoes could harm people's skin
C. found potatoes were strange vegetables
D. found potatoes and invented French fries
13. Only in about 1780 did people start to ________.
A. grow potatoes for their flowers
B. go to Peru to look for gold
C. eat potatoes in Ireland
D. eat eight to ten pounds of potatoes a day
14. What is one of the advantages of potatoes?
A. They grow well in cold and dry weather.
B. They have higher productivity compared with others.
C. They can be grown with other plants.
D. They can be eaten along with milk or cheese.
15. What statement best illustrates the main idea of the passage?
A. How potatoes become popular.
B. Why potatoes are a good vegetable.
C. Why potatoes are healthy and tasty.
D. How potatoes have been consumed.
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the same passage or dialog.
When the telephone rings late at night, most women guess it must be one of only four or five people calling. A sister? Maybe. An emergency? Possibly. A mother? Probably not at that time of night. Much more likely it is a close female friend—someone calling to tell you that she has split up with her boyfriend again or perhaps simply that a good movie has just started on TV.