2015届中考英语阅读理解专项突破复习题 .doc.doc

2015届考英语专项突破复习专练 2015西城 C Of the many kinds of vegetables gron all over the orld, hich remains the favorite of both the young and old? The potato, of course Perhaps you kno them as “taters”, “spuds”, or “Idahoes” But it’s no matter, a potato by any other name is still a potato—the orlds most idely gron vegetable As a matter of fact, if you are a normal potato eater, you ill eat at least a hundred pounds of them each year Thats only a tiny part of the total gron every year, hoever Worldide, the potato harvest (收获) every year is over six billion bags, ith each bag having a hundred pounds of spuds, some of them as large as four pounds each In the United States, farmers fill about four hundred million bags a year That may seem like a lot of taters, but it leaves us in third place among orld potato groers Farmers in Poland (波兰) dig up just over 800 million bags a year, hile the Russians lead the orld ith nearly 15 billion bags People eat potatoes in many ays — baked (烘烤), mashed (捣成糊状), and roasted, to name just three Hoever, in the United States most potatoes are eaten in the form of French fries One fast-food chain alone sells more than $1 billion orth of fries each year No onder, then, that the company pays close attention to the ay its fries are prepared Before any fry makes it to the people ho eat at this popular restaurant, it must pass many separate tests Fail any one and the French fry is thron aay To start ith, only a certain kind of Idaho potato is used to make fries They have less ater than other kinds Once cut into “shoestring” shapes, the potatoes are partly fried in secret oils, sprayed (喷洒) ith liquid sugar to bron them, steam dried at high heat, and then quickly frozen for shipment to each restaurant Before shipping, though, every shoestring is measured (测量) Forty percent of the fries must be beteen to and three inches long Another forty percent has to be over three inches What about the tenty percent that is left? Well, a fe short fries in a bag are o