单选题 In this section, you will hear several passages. Listen to the passages carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
Questions 11 to 13 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 15 seconds to answer the questions.
Now, listen to the passage.
单选题 What is a frankfurter?
  • A. The name of a German town.
  • B. A resident of Frankfurt.
  • C. A kind of German sausage.
  • D. A kind of German bread.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[解析] 11-13 Most people know what a hotdog is. It's a sausage in a roll. But do you know why it's called a hotdog? (11) Well, the long red sausage which goes into a hotdog is called a frankfurter. It got its name from the German town Frankfurt. The sausages were very popular, but hot frankfurters were difficult to sell in crowds. (12) One man, Harry Stevens, had the job of feeding the crowds in baseball games. He had an idea. Why not put the frankfurters in long, hot bread rolls? This made them easy to sell. The "red hot" had a hot and attractive taste and became very popular. (13) But in 1903, an American cartoonist drew a long German sausage dog in place of the frankfurter so a frankfurter in a roll soon became known as a "hot dog". It was a joke, but some people really thought the sausages contained dog meat. For a while, sales of hotdogs failed, but not for long.
单选题 What was Harry, Stevens’ job?
  • A. He sold fast food.
  • B. He raised dogs.
  • C. He was a cook.
  • D. He was a cartoonist.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】
单选题 Why did sales of hotdogs decrease for some time?
  • A. Because the Americans found they were from Germany.
  • B. Because people thought they contained dog meat.
  • C. Because people had to get used to their taste.
  • D. Because it was too hot to eat right away.
【正确答案】 B
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