单选题 It is known to us that English is not as old as Chinese, but it is widely used by most people all over the world. English speakers enjoy creating new words. In fact, a majority of words are traceable and each of them may have an interesting story.
However, no one will really care where a word comes from because it makes little difference in using them in our daily life. Did you ever feel confused about why hamburgers are called hamburgers, especially when they are not made with ham?
About a hundred years ago, some men went to American from Europe, coming from a big city in Germany called Hamburg. They didn' t know how to use English properly. Seen them eating round pieces of beef and asked what it was, the Germans didn' t understand the questions exactly, they answered: "we come from Hamburg. "One of the Americans was an owner of a restaurant and got an idea. He cooked some round pieces of bread with beef and began selling them. Such bread came to be called "hamburgers". Today, hamburgers are welcomed by lots of people coming from different nationalities.

单选题 According to the text, English is ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[题型] 细节题
[解析] 题干意为“根据文章,英语是…”。由第一句话我们可知,英语并不像中文那么悠久古老,故应选C。not so…as…意为“不像…那么…”。
单选题 Hamburg originally is ______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】[题型] 推理题
[解析] 题干意为“汉堡最初是…”。由文章的第三段,我们可知,一些来自汉堡的德国人误认为美国人问他们来自哪里,所以回答到我们来自汉堡。然后美国人发明了一种面包,称之为汉堡包的。因此,汉堡最初只是德国的一个城市。
单选题 Which statement is correct according to the passage?
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[题型] 细节题
[解析] 题干意为“根据文章,下列哪一个陈述是正确的”。汉堡最初是德国的一个城市,故A项是错误的。文中并没有提到美国人喜不喜欢汉堡包,因此B选项也是错误的。文中第二段提到汉堡包并不是由火腿做的,因此C也是不正确的。第三段提到一百多年前,由后文我们也可知美国人在那个时候发明了汉堡包。故选项D是正确的。
单选题 ______ begin to sell hamburgers to people.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】[题型] 细节题
[解析] 题干意为“…最开始卖汉堡包的。”由第三段我们可知,A选项“美国人”是正确的。
单选题 After reading this story, we know the word "hamburger" comes from ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】[题型] 推理题
[解析] 题干意为“在读了这个故事之后,我们可知‘汉堡包’这个词来源于…”。阅读文章,我们知道是美国人看到了来自德国汉堡的人吃一种圆片状牛肉而发明了汉堡包,因此汉堡包这个词来源于美国。