单选题

Plants need green leaves to make food. A plant needs sunlight and carbon dioxide (二氧化碳) from the air for making food and it also needs water and salts from the soil to make food too. There are certain cells (细胞) in the leaves which change carbon dioxide and water into sugar. To do this the cells need energy, which they get from the sunlight.
Green leaves make food for the whole plant. A red leaf can make food too because under the red coloring of the leaf there are food-making cells. There are no leaves that are completely yellow, for they can't make food.
The plant makes sugar for its food. In sunlight green leaves make a lot of sugar. The veins (叶脉) can't carry all this sugar away, so the leaves change the sugar into starch (淀粉), which is kept and so stored in the leaves. At night, the starch change back to sugar. It is then carried away from the leaves. Some of the sugar is used as food by the plant while the rest is stored as starch. In some plants, food is stored in the roots; in others it is stored in the stem and in leaves, fruits and seeds.

单选题 What is the main idea of this passage?
A. How green plants make food.
B. How green plants make sugar.
C. How green plants get their energy.
D. How green plants change sugar into starch.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】本文是一篇科普文章，主要讲的是植物就像是“食品加工厂”，它是如何为自己制造食物的。选项B、C、D的内容虽然在文章中提到过，但都不全面，不能概括主题，只有A是唯一的正确答案。

单选题 To make food, plants need a lot except ______.
A. the air B. the soil C. green leaves D. dead leaves

单选题 Sugar is made for its food by ______.
A. sunlight B. veins C. stem D. green leaves

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】第二段的第一句话说：“Green leaves make food for the whole plant.”第三段说“The plant make sugar for its food.”由此可见，是绿叶制造出sugar作为自己的食物，而stem和veins只是sugar流经和储存的地方。