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寫 ) VI. Reading prehension (閱讀理解 ): (共 50 分 ) A. Choose the best answer (根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容,選擇最恰當?shù)拇鸢?): ( 12 分 ) Around the world, people have beliefs about certain food and drink. If you want to know whether these beliefs are true or not, read this text to find out. Belief: Chicken soup helps to fight a cold. Fact: For centuries, people have believed that chicken soup is good for a cold. Now, doctors say this belief may be true. Scientists say that chicken soup contains a special substance (物質 ) that stops a cold from getting worse. Also, heat from the soup can make a person feel better. Belief: A vegetarian diet is unhealthy. Fact: Meat, especially red meat, contains protein that the body needs. A person who doesn?t eat meat can get enough protein and be healthy by eating tofu, eggs, nuts, and certain vegetables. Belief: Chocolate causes skin trouble. Fact: This is a general belief that is not true! Scientists say that eating chocolate does not cause skin trouble. More often, the cause is stress or not getting enough sleep. Belief: Tea is better than coffee. Fact: A study in 2020 showed that black or green tea contains substances that can protect your heart, fight cancer and make fat less in your body. Coffee does not do this. Belief: Foods like bread and potatoes are fattening . Fact: Bread and potatoes do not contain much fat, or many calories. Eating too much and not exercising can cause us to get heavier. Also, adding fattening things like butter to bread and potatoes can raise the number of calories we eat. 74. Drinking chicken soup is good for a cold ______. A. because it is delicious B. because it produces many calories C. because of a special substance it contains D. because of a special heat it contains 75. Which of these causes skin trouble? A. Juice or chocolate. B. Cheese or chocolate. C. Stress or lack of exercise. D. Stress or lack of sleep. 76. ______ can help to protect heart, fight cancer and make fat less. A. Tea B. Coffee C. Chocolate D. Bread 77. If you want to lose weight, you need to ______. A. eat less and exercise more B. eat and exercise less C. eat more and exercise less D. eat and exercise more 78. Eating bread isn?t fattening, but ______. A. eating potatoes is B. eating similar food is C. adding potatoes to it is D. adding butter to it is 79. What fact does this text lead you to believe? A. Vegetables don?t contain protein at all. B. A person who never eats meat can also be healthy. C. Coffee is better for you than tea. D. If you eat food with a lot of calories, you?ll never get heavier. B. Choose the words or expressions and plete the passage ( 12 分 ) Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a good children?s book. Either the author has aimed too __80__, so that children can?t follow what is in his ( or more often, her ) story, _81__ the story seems to be talking to the readers. The best children?s books are neither very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy the child who hears the story and the adult who reads it. Unfortunately, there are in fact few books like this, __82__ the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not easy to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as works of children?s literature(文學) were in fact written for _83__ .“Alice in Wonderland” is perhaps the most obvious of this. Children, left for themselves, often __84__ the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a library and he will more willingly choose the books written in an unimaginative way, or have a look at the most children?s ics, full of the stories and j