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II. Comprehension:i. Americans eat more potato chips than any other snack food. Legend has it that the creation of this crunchy snack all started as apractical joke.In the late 1700s, future president Thomas Jefferson returned to America from France, bringing with him the recipe for“potatoes fried in the French manner.” Jefferson served these French-fried potatoes to his guests at dinner parties, and the dishbecame popular. Unlike the French fries Americans eat nowadays, they were thick-cut potato slices meant to be eaten with a fork.They soon found their way to restaurant menus.In 1853 chef George Crum worked at Moon Lake Lodge, an upscale resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, which hostedAmerica’s rich and famous. One summer evening, railroad tycoon Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt visited the lodge for dinner andordered French-fried potatoes, which Chef Crum cooked in the standard, thick-cut style.The Commodore complained that the potatoes were cut too thick and sent them back to the kitchen. Though Chef Crum hadcooked this dish as it was usually prepared, he cut some slightly thinner potatoes for the Commodore and sent these to the table. Butthe Commodore sent them back again to be cut thinner. The chef, proving to be the Commodore’s equal, cut the potatoes paper-thinand fried and salted them until they were too crisp to be picked up with a fork.Chef Crum sent these out and waited, prepared to meet with the Commodore’s wrath. Surprisingly, the waiter returned to tellCrum that the Commodore loved his “crunch potato slices” and shared them with his friends. Before long everyone wanted them, andthey were added to the menu as “Saratoga Chips.”
57. A good title for this passage would be__________.
(A) Potato Chips: Americans’ Favorite Snack
(B) The Origin of Potato Chips
(C) Saratoga Chips: the Original Potato Chips
(D) Chef Crum Creating Potato Chips

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.65625
統計：A(2),B(42),C(18),D(0),E(0)

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