黄冈中学2015年春季高一年级期末考试英语试题-1xm.doc

PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 1 湖北省黄冈中学2015年春季高一年级期末考试英语试题 1xm第二部分　阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） A　　Have you ever wondered how a popular food or dessert was first created？Read on and find out about several of them.　　Chewing gum—Although ancient Greeks，Mayans，and early American settlers chewed sap（树液）from trees, the first commercial chewing gum was made and sold by John B. Curtis in 1848. In 1850, Curtis began selling flavored gums.　　Pizza—In Italy in the early 1700s, flat breads, called pizzas, were made without toppings.These tasty，filling breads were sold to the poor in Naples.When Maria Carolina, the queen of Naples, tasted one, she persuaded her husband, King Ferdinand IV, to allow this peasant dish to be made in the royal kitchen.Almost 200 years later，during her travels around the country, Italy’s queen Margherita saw Italian peasants eating pizza breads.She had a taste and fell in love with pizza. She ordered the most famous pizza cook of the day, Raffaele Esposito, to create for her a pizza made of tomato, basil, and cheese to look like the colors of the Italian flag. This remains the basis of the American version of the pizza.　　The ice-cream-cone—In 1904, Italo Marchiony got a patent(专利) to produce ice-cream cones. The same year at the ST. Louis World’s Fair, a Syrian waffle(华夫饼) seller Ernest Hamwi heard that a nearby ice-cream seller had run out of dishes to serve his cream. Hamwi rolled some of his waffles into a cone(圆锥) shape and offered them to his neighbor, who put ice-cream in the cones and sold them. This first fully eatable, portable(便捷的) treat was a hit with customers immediately.　　MMs—During the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s, Forrest Mars, Sr., saw soldiers eating pieces of chocolate covered with a hard sugary coating, which kept the chocolate from melting in the sun. Using this idea, Mars developed M＆Ms in 1941. In 1954, Mars ntroduced MMs Peanut Chocolate