President Thomas Jefferson, however, knew that tomatoes were good to eat. He was a learned man. He had been to Paris, where he learned to love the taste of tomatoes. He grew many kinds of tomatoes in his garden. The President taught his cook a way for a cream of tomato soup. This beautiful pink soup was served at the President’s party. The guests thought the soup tasted really good. They never thought their president would serve his honored(忠实的) guests poison apples. Jefferson never spoke to his honored guests about the fact.

(  )91. After you read the passage, which of the following do you think is true?

A.      Americans never ate tomatoes after they began to plant them.

B.      Americans didn’t eat tomatoes before 19the century.

C.      Even now Americans don’t eat tomatoes.

D.     In the 18th century Americans ate a lot of tomatoes.

(  )92. The passage tells us that Jefferson was a President of ______.

A. a European country            B. England

C. France                      D. the United States

(  )93. Jefferson learned that tomatoes were good to eat _______.

A. while he was in Paris               B. when he was a little boy

C. because his parents told him so       D. from books

(  )94. From the passage we know all the honored guests invited by Jefferson were ______.

A. people form other countries          B. from France

C. people of his own country           D. men only

(  )95. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A.      All of the guests knew the soup that was served at the President’s party

 was made of tomatoes.

B.      All of the guests thought the soup which was prepared by the President’s cook was nice.

C.      All of the guests thought the taste of the beautiful pink soup was nice.

D.     All of the guests didn’t know that their president would serve his honored guests poison apples. 

C
   When you go to see a doctor, he will write you a note(处方) to take to the chemist for some medicine. Chemists are usually good at reading doctors’ notes. But sometimes doctors write too badly and even the chemist can not read them.

   One day a man wrote to a doctor to invite him to have dinner at his house. The doctor wrote a reply, but he wrote too badly and the man could not read it.

   “What shall I do?” he asked his wife, “I don’t know whether he is going to come or not. I don’t want to call him and say that I don’t understand him.”