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D.Help your family learn to prepare food for themselves.
4.Why are better restaurants especially preferably for frequent travelers?
A.The tables are better.
B.The food is usually better for your health.
C.You can call ahead for reservations.
D.You will not have to eat alone.
5.Where would this passage most likely appear?
A.In a magazine specifically for women.
B.In a restaurant and hotel guide.
C.In a news magazine.
D.In a journal for top-ranking businessmen and women.
Passage 2
One of the greatest problems for those settlers in Nebraska in the last quarter of the previous century was fuel.Little of the state was forested when the first settlers arrived and it is probable that by 1880,only about one-third of the originally forested area remained,down to a mere 1 percent of the state's 77,000 square miles.With wood and coal out of the question,and with fuel needed year
round for cooking,and during the harsh winter months for heating,some solution had to be found.
Somewhat improbably,the buffalo provided the answer.Buffalo chips were found to burn evenly,hotly,and cleanly,with little smoke and,interestingly,no odor(
气味
).Soon,collecting them became a way of life for the settlers' children who would pick them up on their way to and from school,or take part in competitions designed to fight against their natural reluctance.Even a young man,trying to impress the girl he wanted to marry,would arrive with a large bag of chips rather than with a box of candy or a bunch of flowers.
6.What is the main topic of this passage?
A.The importance of the American buffalo.
B.Life in Nebraska in the late nineteenth century.
C.The solution to the Nebraskan settlers' fuel problem.
D.The forestation in Nebraska in the late nineteenth century.
7.Which of the following statements is NOT true according to the passage?
A.Nebraska was not a densely-forested state even before the settlers arrived.
B.Buffalo chips were satisfactory as a fuel.
C.The children spent a lot of time collecting the buffalo chips.
D.The children enjoyed collecting the buffalo chips.
8.According to the passage,how much of the originally forested area remained in Nebraska by 1880?
A.about 33%
B.about 1%
C.about 66%
D.about 3%
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