Bananas don’t grow on trees. They grow on a stalk that looks just a little like a stalk o

Bananas don’t grow on trees. They grow on a stalk that looks just a little like a stalk of corn. The stalk is soft enough to be cut with a knife.

It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. Some are as small as fingers. Others are as long as men’s arms. Some banana plants grow as tall as a house – even taller!
Not all bananas are eaten as fruit. Some never get sweet, and they are cooked as a kind of vegetable.
People in most countries never see a banana until it reaches the store. But if you visited a country where it’s hot and rains a lot all the year, you might see a banana plantation, a large farm where bananas grow.
The tasty fruit doesn’t come from a seed but from a root planted deep in the ground. First a stalk pushes up into the air. The leaves grow. In the beginning the banana plant grows very fast – sometimes as much as the length of your feet in one night. Soon, sweet-smelling flowers come out, and when their flowers drop off, bananas begin to grow.
As they get bigger, bananas start turning up. It looks as if they’re growing upside down! Bananas are ready to eat when they turn soft and yellow. Bananas are picked long before this – when they’re hard and green. This is because bananas have to travel many miles before they arrive at a store. On trucks and boats and trains bananas travel all over the world. There are special boats just for bananas and special trains that keep them just cool enough so that they will get ripe while traveling. If bananas are picked when they are ripe (成熟的), they will spoil on the way.
【小题1】What’s the weather like in places where bananas grow?A．Dry and coldB．Cold and wetC．Wet and hotD．Hot and dry【小题2】The fruit of banana plants come from .A．a stalkB．a treeC．a seedD． a root【小题3】Bananas are picked long before they are .A．greenB．ripeC．hardD．red【小题4】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?A．All bananas are eaten as fruit.B．Some banana plants grow taller than a house.C．Bananas get ripe on their way to the store.D．It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked.C

(答案→)C 解析：这篇短文主要介绍了香蕉是茎生植物，其果实大小不一，可作蔬菜水果食用，生长在热带雨林；同时介绍了其生长过程和采摘、运输方式。【小题1】细节理解题。根据短文if you visited a country where it’s hot and rains a lot all the year, you might see a banana plantation的描述可知，香蕉在炎热多雨的环境生长。故应选C。【小题2】细节理解题。根据短文the tasty fruit doesn’t come from a seed but from a root的描述可知，香蕉植物的果实来自根部。故应选D。【小题3】细节理解题。根据短文最后一段Bananas are picked long before this – when they’re hard and green的描述，香蕉应该在还青还硬，也就是在成熟之前采摘。故应选B。【小题4】细节理解题。根据短文Not all bananas are eaten as fruit的描述可知，并非所有的香蕉都是可食用的水果。故应选A。

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