What foods are served on the dinner table on Thanksgiving Day?()

听力原文：M: Come in and have a seat please, Ann. Please make yourself at home.

W: I am really grateful for your invitation. I know Thanksgiving is a very traditional family holiday and I am so glad to be with an American family on this occasion.

M: on the fourth Thursday of November every year, Americans celebrate Thanksgiving Day. You know its origin (20) ？

w: Yeah, it has something to do with the first settlers and Indians (20) .

M: Right. The first settlers in Massachusetts started this custom. And large dinners with many relatives are common throughout America on this special day.

W: Do you have traditional dishes that you serve every year？

M: Yes, we do. The traditional foods of Thanksgiving meal include roast turkey, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and bread pudding (20) . I hope you have a good appetite today.

W: What do men do while women are doing the cooking？

M: It's the same every year'--football. We watch one game after another on Thanksgiving (21) . I always think we'd better go out and get some exercise, but every year we fail. We are glued to the tube! When I was young, I always went hunting with my father on Thanksgiving Day morning.

W: What do you do after the meal？

M: After dinner we'd like to go bowling. It's a fan thing to do together as a family (22) . After a couple of games, we go back home and eat the leftovers.

W: I think that Thanksgiving and Christmas are the most important holidays in the States, just like Spring Festival in China.

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A．How to spend Thanksgiving Day.

B．Preparing food on Thanksgiving Day.

C．The origin of Thanksgiving Day.

D．What to do after Thanksgiving meal.

What is the tone of the passage about fast foods？

A．Subjective.

B．Objective.

C．Exaggerated.

D．Argumentative.

听力原文： If you visit a big city anywhere in the world, you will probably find a restaurant which serves the food of your native country. Most large cities in the United States offer international sample of foods. Many people enjoy eating the food of other nations. This is probably one reason why there are so many different kinds of restaurants in the United States. A second reason is that many Americans come from other parts of the world. They enjoy tasting the foods of their native lands.

In the city of Detroit, for example, there are many people from western Europe, Greece, Latin America and the Far East. There are many restaurants in Detroit which serve the foods of these areas. There are many other international restaurants too. Americans enjoy the foods in these restaurants as well as the opportunity to better understand the people and their way of life. One of the most common international restaurants to be found in the United States is the Italian restaurant. The restaurant may be a small business run by a single family. The mother of the family cooks all of the dishes and the father and children serve the people who come to eat there. Or it may be a large restaurant owned by several different people who worked together in the business. Many Italian dishes that Americans enjoy are made with meats, tomatoes and cheese. They are very delicious and tasty.

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A．Many foreign tourists visit the United States every year.

B．Americans enjoy eating out with their friends.

C．The United States is a country of immigrants.

D．Americans prefer foreign foods to their own food.

What is the author's attitude toward the claims made by advocates of health foods？

A．Very enthusiastic

B．Somewhat favorable

C．Neutral

D．Skeptical

What purpose do NOT post-listening activities serve？

A.Helping students relate the text with their personal experience.

B.Offering students the opportunities of extending other language skills.

C.Practicing students" ability of matching the pre-listening predictions with contents of the text.

D.Giving the answer directly to students and not to explain.

When a new kind of cooking oil is used in McDonald's, ______.

A．the prices of McDonald's foods will be much higher

B．consumers will find the taste of McDonald's foods different

C．many other food companies will do what McDonald's does

D．fatness will disappear in American society sooner or later

What do the experts believe will happen by the year 2050？

A．The sea level will be 20 centimeters higher than it is now.

B．The sea will be empty if we continue fishing at this pace.

C．The problems to explore the sea will have been largely solved.

D．People will depend largely on sea foods and minerals.

What is the main concern of man on the fourth level？

A．The more foods the better.

B．The more mental satisfaction the better.

C．The more "luxury" items the better.

D．The more earnings the better.

What was the result of Columbus' two trips to America？

A．They led to the discovery of America.

B．They made native American foods popular.

C．They brought great wealth to Spain.

D．They made native American life styles well-known.

What is true about organically grown foods？

A．There is no doubt that they are the best foods.

B．Some people hold opposite opinions toward the absolute advantages of the foods.

C．Some people don't like the foods at all.

D．The market food products are as safe and nutritious as the organic foods.