1 . Coca-Cola is probably the most famous brand in the world, and in some areas you can even access it easier than clean drinkable water. Although the company is trying to present itself as a health-conscious company, you can’t really say that drinking cola is healthy for you. Still, we all drink cola, some more and some less, and we tell ourselves that it’s all okay as long as we don’t overdo it. However, Coca-Cola has other functions besides drinking.
Cola removes the tarnish (暗锈) from old pennies. Got some old rusty (生锈的) pennies? Don’t worry! Put them inside a glass of cola and let them rest for a while. When you get them out, you’ll have shiny pennies that will look as if they were coined a couple of days ago. If you couldn’t clean those pennies with industrial acids (酸), just buy a can of cola and let it do its magic!
You can remove gum from your hair with cola. If you’ve got gum stuck in your hair and don’t know a better way to get it out, don’t worry, you won’t have to cut it. Just pour some cola into a bowl and dip the part of your hair with gum on it inside. Leave it for a couple of minutes and then simply wipe off the gum.
You can make an exploding fountain (喷泉). You probably know about this one. You can make an exploding fountain by putting a mint (薄荷糖) inside a two-liter bottle. Then move away from the bottle and get ready for a Coca-Cola explosion (爆炸). This is a fun thing to do, but it is also a warning — don’t eat a mint and drink cola at the same time, because a similar thing could happen to your stomach.
1. What does the underlined part in Paragraph 1 imply?| A．The expense of Coca-Cola is low. | B．Coca-Cola enjoys great popularity. |
| C．Coca-Cola is safe for people to drink. | D．Coca-Cola is harder to get than drinkable water. |
| A．Make pennies shiny. | B．Destroy the gum. |
| C．Improve people’s hair. | D．Take the place of acids. |
| A．It can cause harm to our stomach. |
| B．It might make our stomach smaller. |
| C．Mints with cola will produce heat. |
| D．The mint will release poisonous substances (有毒物质). |
| A．The major ingredients (原料) of Coca-Cola. |
| B．Why we can’t drink Coca-Cola too often. |
| C．Some of the strangest uses of Coca-Cola. |
| D．Why Coca-Cola is popular among the young. |
2 . My folks bought their first house in the early 1940s after Dad got a better job in Marquette, Michigan. We lived just inside the city limits in what was still a rural area.
In the spring of 1948, when I was 6 years old, my parents bought a calf (小牛) to replace our cow, which had been killed the year before. So one day we drove to a local farm and returned with a white and brown calf we named Tubby.
We didn’t own a truck, so Tubby rode home in the backseat of Dad’s car with my 9-year-old brother, Steve and me. As you can imagine, the trip was a lot of fun for us kids.
Later that summer, Mom thought it would be cute to take a picture of me sitting on Tubby’s back. All went well until the flashlight of the camera sent Tubby charging off on a run, with me holding on for dear life and my heart pulled to my throat.
I lasted for about 30 feet before I hit the ground. Mom was quick enough to shoot a follow-up picture, so we had photos of me both on and off Tubby!
When summer had passed, the day arrived for poor Tubby to fill our freezer (冰柜). I must have been somewhere else with my mom on the fateful (决定性的) day, because I have no memory of what happened. All I knew was that the barn (畜棚) was empty, and that we had plenty of meat for dinners.
I hadn’t lived on the farm like my mother, so I didn’t understand that what had happened to Tubby was not unusual. Livestock (家畜) aren’t meant to be pets, and most farm kids know and accept the truth.
Whenever we had beef for dinner, I would tearfully ask, “Is this Tubby?” This went on for a couple of months until Dad had enough and declared, “No more cows!” That made me feel better about poor Tubby.
1. Why did the parents buy Tubby?| A．To raise it for meat. | B．To produce enough milk for the kids. |
| C．To keep the kids company. | D．To have Tubby help with farm work. |
| A．The writer witnessed Tubby killed. |
| B．The writer felt happy to see the freezer filled with meat. |
| C．The writer’s mother thought it natural to kill Tubby for meat. |
| D．The writer felt excited on Tubby’s back when it was running off. |
| A．Sad. | B．Thankful. | C．Moved. | D．Hopeless. |
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I first met Li Ming at a friend birthday party five years ago. Then I invited Li Ming over in my place. We listened to my CDs together and soon become best friends. Three years ago, Li Ming’s parents invited I to spend two wonderful week in Qingdao with them during the summer holiday. Li Ming and I loved walking along the beautifully beaches there. Last year I was ill but had to stay in hospital for a week. Li Ming came see me every day. Then his father changed his job and they moved to another city. Since then we aren’t seen each other much, but we’ve kept being writing to each other.
