单选题 Passage Three
Questions 32 to 35 are based on the passage you have just heard.
单选题 A. They think that ice cream is very new.
B. They know that ice cream is brought from Europe.
C. They think that ice cream was an American idea.
D. They don't know what ice cream is.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 32-35
Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and apple pie. But ice cream was known long before America was discovered.
The Roman emperor Nero may have made a kind of ice cream. He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains. He used it to make cold drinks. Traveler Marco Polo brought back recipes for chilled and frozen milk from China.
Hundreds of years later, ice cream reached England. It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very much. There is a story that he bribed his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a royal secret. Today ice cream is known throughout the world. Americans eat more than two billion quarts a year.
32. What do most Americans know about ice cream?
单选题 A. A hundred years ago. B. Three centuries ago.
C. After America was discovered. D. Long before America was discovered.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[解析]
When did people start to have ice cream?
单选题 A. King Charles I made ice cream popular in England.
B. The Roman emperor Nero hired men to bring ice to cool his drinks.
C. Marco Polo brought Chinese recipes for frozen milk to Europe.
D. King Charles I wanted to keep the secret of ice cream for himself. .
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析]
Which of the statements is NOT true?
单选题 A. Over two billion quarts. B. Two million quarts.
C. Two hundred million quarts. D. Nearly twenty billion quarts.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[解析]
How much ice cream do, Americans eat each year?