Question

Christian Eijkman, a Dutch doctor, left the Netherlands for the island of Java. Many people on the island had a disease called beri-beri. He was going there to try and find a cure.

At first, Eijkman thought some kind of germ (細(xì)菌) caused beri-beri. He raised some chickens. He didn’t eat them, but made experiments on them. The local people were quite surprised at that. One day he noticed that his chickens became sick when they were fed the food most Javanese ate — refined white rice (精煉米). When he fed them with unrefined rice, also known as brown rice, they recovered. Eijkman realized that he had made an important discovery — that some things in food could prevent disease. These things were named vitamins (維生素). The Javanese were not getting enough vitamins because they had actually removed the part that contains vitamins. Later, other diseases were also found to be caused by the lack of vitamins in a person’s food.

Today many people know the importance of vitamins and they make sure they have enough vitamins from the food they eat. If they don’t, they can also take vitamin pills.

1.The underlined word “cure” in Paragraph 1 probably means ______.

A. a medical treatment B. a kind of vitaminC. a kind of germ D. a kind of rice

2.Christian Eijkman went to the island of Java to ______.

A. spend his holiday

B. find ways to grow better crops

C. do some research about the island

D. help the Javanese with their illness

3.Why did Christian Eijkman raise some chickens?

A. To eat them.

B. To carry out his experiments.

C. To give the Javanese a surprise.

D. To make money by selling them.

4.If a person doesn’t get enough vitamins in his diet, he’d better ______.

A. eat more rice B. eat more meatC. eat some chicken D. eat vitamin pills

5.We can learn from the passage that ______.

A. beri-beri was caused by chickens

B. the Javanese didn’t like vitamins

C. Christian Eijkman’s experiment was successful

D. the Javanese’s disease was caused by a kind of germ

 

Answer 1

1.A

2.D

3.B

4.D

5.C

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述Christian Eijkman醫(yī)生在爪哇的一個(gè)島上為當(dāng)?shù)厝酥尾�時(shí)，拿雞做試驗(yàn)發(fā)現(xiàn)缺乏事物中的某些物質(zhì)會(huì)導(dǎo)致人或動(dòng)物生病的原理，從而發(fā)現(xiàn)維生素會(huì)防止某些疾病的故事。

1.根據(jù)第一段內(nèi)容可知島上的人生病了，醫(yī)生去那里找治愈的方法，常識(shí)可知治病即用醫(yī)學(xué)手段使人身體恢復(fù)健康。故選A。

2.cure.”島上許多人得了一種叫做beri-beri的疾病。他去那里試著尋找治愈方法。故選D。

3.故選B。

4.。故選D。

5.

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