Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid.
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.
【小题1】Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?A．They thought spinach made them strong. B．They thought Popeye was funny.C．Spinach had a lot of iron.D．People liked folic acid.【小题2】A research group told people that spinach .A．made Popeye strongB．was a green vegetableC．had less iron than other green vegetablesD．had more iron than other green vegetables【小题3】The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from .A．ironB．folic acidC．spinachD．exercise【小题4】Folic acid is .A．something in foodB．a vegetableC．dangerousD．a certain kind of spinachA
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(答案→)A
解析：
试题分析 通过卡通人物大力水手来说明不是波菜让人强壮而是其中波菜中的叶酸能使人强壮。
【小题1】A 推断题。。根据第一段所说Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong，故选择A项。
【小题2】D细节题。根据第三段This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.故宣布是有误的，故选择D项。
【小题3】B细节题。根据最后一段 It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong，应是叶酸使人强壮故选择C项。一定读懂作者的意图。
【小题4】A细节题。根据倒数第二段spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid，叶酸是在食物中所含有的。故选A项。
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