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  What will TV producers think of next? Anything unusual to keep viewers watching, it seems. And what is the latest trend? Reality television.

  Viewers of reality TV shows enjoy the programs because the conclusion is being decided as the story unfolds. None of the material is prepared beforehand! At least that is what the TV producers tell everyone.

  In 2000, the Survivor reality show started. Sixteen competitors were sent on a tropical island, all hoping to win the US $ 1 million prize. Each week, the competitors voted someone out of the. The competitors had to cooperate to survive, but were also competing to be the last one on the island.

  Later on, critics said the TV producers had already decided the winner beforehand. Did this possible trick tame the public's desire for more reality TV? Strangely enough, it didn't. New Survivor sequels(系列) were popular with audiences worldwide.

  Other reality shows lave followed Survivor. The latest reality TV project is called Minimum Wage. Two average couples have to survive on minimum wage for one month. An identical show in Japan attracted great interest last year. The Japanese, currently suffering through a recession(經(jīng)濟(jì)蕭條), apparently found much in this show to relate to.

1.Reality Television shows are ________. .

[  ]

A.a(chǎn) kind of or competitions
B.TV series
C.TV plays
D.the latest trend

2.People enjoy reality TV shows because ________.

[  ]

A.the producer tells everyone the result

B.the producer designs the conclusion at the very beginning

C.the conclusion is getting clear as the am is going on

D.you can join in the show

3.In the Survivor reality show, ________.

[  ]

A.everyone should rely on himself

B.everyone tries to stay longer

C.everyone should stay on the island for 4 months

D.the competitors can share US $ 1 million

4.In the Minimum Wage, ________.

[  ]

A.two couples are required to live on a small sum of money

B.two couples are required to live on a large sum of money

C.two couples are taught how to spend money

D.Japanese have learned a lot from the program

5.The beat title for the passage is ________.

[  ]

A.Watching TV
B.Reality Television
C.Survivor
D.Minimum Wage
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科目:高中英語 來源:2012年普通高等學(xué)校招生全國統(tǒng)一考試重慶卷英語 題型:050

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  To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians(基督教徒)ever cooked up.For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil(邪惡的).So when Colu brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion.Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o the door of Europeans.

  What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake, a plant that was the to have come from Hell(地獄).What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits.Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch.

  Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of the We people continued to drag their feet.In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father's house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”.

  But in the end tomatoes carried the day.The hero of the tomato was an American named R Johnson, and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820, people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead.”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted.”I'll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato.Some people fainted.But he sur and, according to a local story, set up a tomato-canning factory.

(1)

The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ________.

[  ]

A.

it made Christive evil

B.

it was the apple of Eden

C.

it came from a forbidden land

D.

it was religiously unacceptable

(2)

What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

[  ]

A.

The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down

B.

There was little pregress in the study of the tomato

C.

The tomato was still refused in most western countries

D.

Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato

(3)

What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly?

[  ]

A.

To manke imself a hero

B.

To remove people's fear of the tomaoto

C.

To speed up the popularityt of the tomato

D.

To persuade people to buy products fo\rom his factory

(4)

What is the main purpose of the passage?

[  ]

A.

To challenge people's fixed concept of the tomato

B.

To give an explanation to people's dislike of the tomato

C.

To present the change of people's attitudes to the tomato

D.

To show the process of freeing the tomato from religious influence

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