单选题
Where do our favorite foods come from? The truth may
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you. Did you know curry (咖喱) isn"t Indian? Did you know Americans weren"t the
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to eat hamburgers? Or did you know pizza wasn"t created in Italy?
First, let"s talk about curry. Many people think the English found out about curry from people in India in the 1600s. But
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, wealthy English people were cooking with curry spices hundreds of years
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British ships traveled to India. In fact, the word "curry" can be found in the English language as far back as 1377. Cooks of wealthy English families created curry dishes, and later these
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caught on in other parts of England.
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pizza, this dish was probably first made in Persia(what is now Iran). The Persians were eating round, flat bread with cheese in the 500s-nearly one thousand years before pizza caught on in Naples, Italy!
Finally. let"s look at the truth behind
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. Many people think hamburgers are an American food. However,
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some stories, hamburgers came from Hamburg, Germany. A German named Otto Kuasw made the first hamburger in 1891. Four years later, German sailors
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hamburgers to Americans.
Where foods come from isn"t nearly as
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as how they taste-delicious! So, go get some of your favorite food and dig in.
【答案解析】[解析] “as good as”意思为“和……一样好”;“as far as”意思为“到……程度”;“as important as”意思为“和……一样重要”;“as long as”意思为“只有”。从上下文判断,C项为最佳答案。全句意思为“一种食物起源于何处几乎和其味道一样不怎么重要。”