How many tomatoes will be consumed on this battle?A.50, 000 kilogramB.26 tonsC.64 kilogram
How many tomatoes will be consumed on this battle?
A.50, 000 kilogram
B.26 tons
C.64 kilogram
D.100 tons
How many tomatoes will be consumed on this battle?
A.50, 000 kilogram
B.26 tons
C.64 kilogram
D.100 tons
Simon; I bought ten kilos of tomatoes at the supermarket today.
Linda; Ten kilos' Why so many? What are you going to do with them?
Simon: I don’t know. ______
Linda; No, thanks. To tell the truth, I' m not crazy about tomatoes.
A.Can you tell me how to make tomato soup?
B.Did you buy something else?
C.Have you got a big basket to put them in?
D.Would you like some of them?
How did this woman become orange? Site ate lots of tomatoes, carrots and squshes (南瓜). She ate many orange things. That's why she turned orange. The woman didn't want to be orange. She went to the doctor. The doctor said, "Stop eating orange things. Eat some green things. The woman did so, and she wasn't orange any more.
The woman in this story bad ______ .
A.orange eyes
B.orange skin
C.orange hair
Tomatoes: With their load of vitamin C, tomatoes are the richest source of the fiery red pigment lycopene, which has been shown to defend against malignancies of the lungs, cervix, prostate, and mouth(47). If they need to ripen, leave them in a cool spot in your kitchen for a day or two.
Oranges: Like all citrus fruits, oranges are known for their aromatic oils and high vitamin C content.(48)
Garlic: Garlic could be your ticket to longevity. The same sulfur compounds that give the bulb its pungent flavour protect against cancer both by neutralizing carcinogens and slowing tumors' growth. If you don't care for garlic, take heart: onions, leeks, shallots, and chives deliver many of the same cancer-fighting substances.
Tea:(49). One recent study found that certain of these compounds appear to keep newly formed tumor cells from growing out of control, a trick they pull off by restoring a chemical in the body that limits how many times the rogue cells can divide.
Whole Wheat:(50). Grain-lovers ran one-third the risk of people who rarely ate whole grain bread or cereal.
A. Loaded with nutrients and fiber, grains have many of the same phytochemicals as fresh produce.
B. But berries of every kind offer benefits.
C. A lot of people in China like to drink tea because it's traditional.
D. Whatever you do, don't put fresh tomatoes in the fridge unless you want to spoil their flavour and texture.
E. Tea is rich in antioxidants called polyphenols.
F. Citrus-lovers show comparatively low rates of stomach and lung cancers.
听力原文: The mushy remains of a tomato thrown at a prominent member of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats has posed a legal dilemma for authorities trying to assess how to punish the thrower. Police investigating the fruit, thrown by an unemployed protestor at the premier of the state of Brandenburg, said they have concluded it was a yellow tomato. Had it been a soft red one, the man would have faced a lesser charge of causing malicious damage. A harder, green tomato could carry the tougher charge of bodily harm, A yellow one is somewhere in between. "In these types of cases it has to do with the consistency of the fruit," said a spokeswoman for the court in the eastern city of Cottbus. No decision on the charge has yet been reached. Social democratic politicians have been facing the wrath of the public in recent months, especially in the economically depressed east where many people face painful jobless benefit cuts from January 2005. Tens of thousands have joined protests in the last six weeks and Schroeder himself has been pelted with eggs, none of which hit their mark.
The German court is facing a legal dilemma because the law hasn't stipulated the punishment of ______.
A.tomato-throwing
B.unemployed people in Germany
C.throwing yellow tomatoes
D.throwing yellow tomatoes for a joke
There on the shelves, each bottle, can, box, and jar has been carefully designed and measured to speak to the inner self of the consumer(消费者), so that is buying not only a product but also his belief in life. Scientists have studied consumer behavior. recently and found that the look of the package has a great effect on the "quality" of the product and on how well it sells, because" Consumers generally cannot tell between a product and its package. Many products are packages and many packages are products, "as Louis Cheskin, the first social scientist studying consumers" feeling for packaging, noticed.
Colors are one of the best tools in packaging. Studies of eye movement have shown that colors draw human attention quickly. Take V8 for example. For many years, the bright red color of tomatoes and carrots on the thin bottle makes you feel that it is very good for your body. And the word "green" today can keep food prices going up.
Shapes are another attraction. Circles often suggest happiness and peacefulness, because these shapes are pleasing to both the eye and the heart. That's why the round yellow M signs of McDonald's are inviting to both young and old.
This new consumer response (反应)to the colors and shapes of packages reminds producers and sellers that people buy to satisfy both body and soul.
According to the passage, ______ seems to be able to persuade a consumer to buy the product.
A.the pleasing color of the package
B.the special taste of the product
C.the strange shape of the package
D.the belief in the product
Bargaining Lessons
Bargaining skills are most important when negotiating for more expensive goods -- most typically handicrafts -- but you can practice many of them on vendors in the local marketplace, where a fiasco(大失败) is just a good laugh. Some of the most challenging, complex, and instructive bargaining you will do is in the public produce market.
The produce is usually sold by the kilo, and these prices are sometimes displayed. But don't expect to start bargaining after they have already weighed it and told you the standard price. Many of the scales just collect dust, because the buyers offer a price for exactly the pieces they want, after guessing the weight, If you think in pounds, instead of kilos, you are already at a disadvantage. In the beginning, you should have a few items weighed, and maybe pay the kilo price -- this is a long learning experience. At some point you will get a feeling for what a good price is for a medium avocado(锷梨), a small papaya(番木瓜果), or a large pineapple. Then you go to a new country, or just down to the coast, and the prices all change! Don't forget to factor in quality, too!
In more underdeveloped areas, weight may be ignored altogether, and various measurements are used. The single piece is basic, but many goods may be sold by the "pile", the bundle, the handful, the cupful, the hatful and several other strange ones. Then you can also bargain about whose pile, hand, hat, or cup is used. Cloth material and rope is often sold by lengths that you have never heard of before.
As with other bargaining, you should be able to get the price down if you buy more things from the same vendor. Now it starts to get really complicated. You want two tomatoes, two avocados, and a papaya) The vendor offers you a smaller papaya and only one avocado for your price. You accept the papaya but put back another avocado. Then she adds some to your price and throws in two limes, which you never even asked for! Now you are completely at sea, and she has only started warming up. Limes at 20 cents a kilo, tomatoes at 45, (how much would those tomatoes weigh?), avocados at ... how much was that? Let's see ... Then you are interrupted, "Hey, Randy, get two extra avocados will you, and a couple of red onions." Oh, my God, here, just take all my money, and give me some food!
The good news is that a major miscalculation in the marketplace (like a factor of ten) may only cost two dollars, and will be about what you would pay at home. If you go to the vegetable market every morning, even if only for lunch supplies and some fruit, you will not only have great fun, but you will quickly pick up some sharp bargaining skills, and from some of the nicest experts you will ever come across!
Team Bargaining
Go shopping with a friend. The best reason is that they can talk you out of an unwise purchase, or out of a shop that you find difficult to escape. They can also offer a second opinion on the usefulness, value, or beauty of the merchandise you are considering. It is best if only one of you is actually buying in any particular shop, and the other is assigned to be on guard against ploys(策略) that draw you away from rational bargaining.
Use your palmer as a foil in the negotiations. You can say things to each other which would be more confrontational if said directly to the vendor. Your partner can point out flaws in the merchandise, tell you there is better stuff down the road, that you cannot afford it, and that you already spent too much money. She' can say things like "The German guys got some yesterday that were better than this for the same price. Come on, let's go take a look at them." Most vendors selling to tourists will understand enough of this to get the message loud and clear.
You can seem genuinely interested in the merchandise and friendly to the vendor', while your partner points out all the dis
A.Y
B.N
C.NG
If you are producing for a market, you must .
A.do whatever you want to do for the market
B.buy as many tomatoes as you can
C.be a manager of a supermarket
D.follow the market situation closely
The market, which was founded in 1979, sets up its tents every Saturday from 7:00 am to 1 p.m. rain or shine, along North Lemon and State streets. Baskets of perfect red strawberries, the red-painted sides of the Java Dawg coffee truck; and most of all, the tomatoes: amazing, large, soft and round red tomatoes.
Disappointed by many a broken, vine-ripened(蔓上成熟的) promise, I’ve refused to buy winter tomatoes for years. No matter how attractive they look in the store, once I get them home they’re unfailingly dry, hard, and tasteless. But I homed in, with uncertainty, on one particular table at the Brown’s Grove Farm’s stand, full of fresh and soft tomatoes the size of my fist. These were the real deal and at that moment, I realized that the best part of Sarasota in winter was going to be eating things that back home in New York I wouldn’t be experiencing again for months.
Delighted as I was by the tomatoes in sight, my happiness deepened when I learned that Brown’s Grove Farm is one of the suppliers for Jack Dusty, a newly opened restaurant at the Sarasota Ritz Carlton, where luckily for me I was planning to have dinner that very night. Without even seeing the menu, I knew I’d be ordering every tomato on it.
(1)、What did the author think of her winter life in New York? ()
A、Exciting.
B、Boring.
C、Relaxing.
D、Annoying.
(2)、What made the author’s getting up early worthwhile? ()
A、Having a swim.
B、Breathing in fresh air.
C、Walking in the morning sun.
D、Visiting a local farmer’s market.
(3)、What can we learn about tomatoes sold in New York in winter? ()
A、They are soft.
B、They look nice.
C、They taste great.
D、They are juicy.
(4)、What was the author going to that evening? ()
A、Go to a farm.
B、Check into a hotel.
C、Eat in a restaurant.
D、Buy fresh vegetable
(5)、In the first paragraph, the word “adventure” means ______. ()
A、risk.
B、effort.
C、achievement.
D、access.
What is the topic of this piece of news?
A.The Bunol city
B.A tomato fight
C.The tourism industry
D.The tomato production