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力水手》) first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s. the sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach (菠菜) 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 thought spinach had a log 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 that is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else that the body needs—folic acid (葉酸).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. ( )1. What is the best title for this passage?A. Popeye the Sailor ManB. A Mistakes with NumbersC. Folic Acid Makes You StrongD. The Truth about Spinach( )2. Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor Man?A. Because they thought spinach could make them strong.B. Because they thought Popeye was funny.C. Because spinach had a lot of iron.D. Because people liked folic acid.( )3. The passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from______.A. ironB. spinachC. folic acid D. exercise( )4. Folic acid is ______.A. something in foodB. a vegetableC. dangerousD. a certain kind of spinach( )5. A research group told people that spinach______.A. had less iron than other green vegetablesB. had more iron than other green vegetablesC. made Popeye strongD. was a green vegetable四、 補(bǔ)全對話(本大題共5小題,每小題1分,共5分)根據(jù)對話內(nèi)容,從方框內(nèi)選擇恰當(dāng)?shù)木渥訉υ捬a(bǔ)充完整。 has C. has bought。happily。 wasC. walked。 has beenC. went。2013—2014學(xué)年度第二學(xué)期期中考試八年級英語試卷班級________ 姓名________ 成績________一、 單項(xiàng)填空(本大題共20小題,每小題1分,共20分)從下列每小題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中,選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)。 has goneD. has gone。 have been D. walked。happilyD. happily。 has had D. has bought。(選項(xiàng)中有兩項(xiàng)是多余的)A. What’s the weather like there?B. Did you have a good journey?C. What did you do there?D. Have you been there before?E. How long have you been there?F. How did you get there?G. Where did you go?A: Hello, Alice! Nice to meet you .B: Me, too! How are you ?A: Fine.(1) I haven’t seen you for a long time.B: Oh, I went to Sydney with my parents. Sydney is the biggest city in Australia.A: Really? (2) B: No, I haven’t. It’s the first time for me to go there.A: That’s great. (3) Is it too hot?B: No, Sydney is cool because it’s winter now. A: (4) B: First by plane, then we went to