7AU9阅读补充材料

Unit 9 阅读补充材料

A. Choose the best answer

Coffee has become the most popular American drink. Today people in the United States drink more coffee than people in any of the other countries. People drink coffee at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner and between meals. They drink hot coffee or coffee with ice in it. They drink it at work and at home. They eat coffee ice-cream and coffee candy. Coffee is black and very strong. Different people like to drink in different ways. Some people like coffee with cream or sugar in it. Other people like coffee with both cream and sugar in it. In all ways it is served. Coffee has become an international drink.

( ) 1. Coffee is an _________ drink.

A. interesting

B. international

C. ice-cream

D. American

( )2. Different people like to drink coffee ________.

A. at work or at home

B. in different ways

C. with cream or sugar

D. between meals

( )3. Today Americans drink _______ coffee than people in any of the other countries.

A. as much as

B. less

C. more

D. most

( )4. Coffee is black and very strong. The word “strong”here means________.

A. 坚固的

B. 淡的

C.清的

D.浓的

( )5. All people like coffee with cream or sugar in it, don't they?

A. Yes, they don’t.

B. No, they don’t.

C. Yes, they do.

D. No, they do.

B. Choose the words and complete the passage.

People eat different things in different parts of the ___________.

In some countries, people eat rice every day. _________ they eat two or three times a day, for breakfast, lunch and supper. They __________ eat it with meat, fish and vegetables.

Some people do not eat some kinds of meat. Muslims(穆斯林)，__________ do not eat pork. In western countries such as Britain, Australia and the USA, the most _________ food is bread and potatoes. And people can cook potatoes in _________ ways. Some people eat only fruit and vegetables. They don’t eat meat or fish or anything that comes from animals. Some people say that food from plants is better for us than meat.

( )1. A. country B. world C. place D. earth

( )2. A. Sometimes B. Sometime C. When D. Where

( )3. A. always B. sometimes C. usually D. never

( )4. A. such as B. like C. as D. for example

( )5. A. nice B. good C. expensive D. important

( )6. A. same B. different C. some D. any

C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words.

Plants give us a lot of different foods and drinks. In fact, the most p_____1_____ drink in the world comes from leaves that grow on bushes. India and China are famous for this drink. They bushes grow best on hills. And they like a lot of rain. They also like warm w_______2______. The leaves contain caffeine. It can make you e_____3______ when you feel tired. Do you know what the drink is? It is t________4_______.

The first person to drink tea was probably a man living in China about 4,000 years ago. According to history, he discovered tea when he was camping. Some leaves fell from a tea bush into a pot of boiling water. The man drank the mixture and thought it tasted d______5__________.

Nowadays, people all over the world drink tea in different ways. For e_____6_____, the Chinese sometimes add flowers to tea. The Japanese enjoy plain green tea. Arabs like tea with mint(薄荷) and lots of sugar. In north America, many people believe iced tea with lemon is the best drink for a hot day.