新视野视听说教程第二册quiz4(8)

新视野视听说教程第二册quiz

8. What happened after seven weeks of doing the show?

A. All of the women won prizes.

B. Lance asked one of the women to marry him.

C. One of the women on the show started to cry.

D. Jonsson asked Lance to marry her.

9. Which of the following is true during the series?

A. Lance went on dates with one woman each time.

B. The candidates traveled abroad with Lance.

C. Lance and Jonsson started dating each other.

D. The women met Lance's family.

10. What does the author want to tell us through the passage?

A. TV dating shows are a good way to find true love.

B. TV dating shows are the most efficient among other media.

C. More women are getting more interested in TV dating shows.

D. It's hard to find true love through contesting with other contestants.

Questions 11 to 15 are based on the same passage or dialog.

Can you imagine life without French fries? Potatoes are very popular today. They are the fourth most important crop in the world, after wheat, rice, and corn. But in the past, potatoes were not always popular. People in Europe started to eat them only 200 years ago!

In the 1500s, the Spanish went to South America to look for gold. There, they found people eating potatoes for 7000 years! The Spanish brought the potato back to Europe with them. But people in Europe did not like this strange vegetable. Some people thought that if you ate potatoes, your skin would look like the skin of a potato. Other people could not believe that you ate the underground part of the plant, so they ate the leaves instead. This made them sick because there is poison in the leaves. Others grew potatoes for their flowers. At one time in France, potato flowers were one of the most expensive flowers.

Around 1780, the people of Ireland started to eat potatoes. They found that potatoes had many advantages. The potato grew on poor land, and it grew well in their cold and rainy climate. It gave more food than any other plant, and it needed little work. All they had to do was to plant the

potatoes, and then they could do other work on the farm. On a small piece of land, a farmer could grow enough potatoes to feed his family. A person could eat eight to ten pounds of potatoes a day, with some milk or cheese, and be very healthy. Soon, potatoes became the main food in Ireland. In 1845, a disease killed all the potatoes in Ireland. Two million people died of hunger. Many Irish who did not die came to the United States at this time. In other parts of Europe, people did not want to change their old food habits. Some preferred to die

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