Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon a

Popeye the Sailor first became a popular cartoon in the 1930s.The sailor in that cartoon ate lots of spinach(菠菜) to make him strong. People watched him, and they began to buy and eat a lot more spinach. Popeye helped sell 33 percent more spinach than before! Spinach became a necessary part of many people’s diets. Even some children who hated the taste began to eat the vegetable.
Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong, but this is not true. Spinach does not have any more iron than any other green vegetable.
People only thought spinach had a lot of iron because the people who studied the food made a mistake. In the 1890s, a group of people studied what was inside vegetables. This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did. The group wrote the number wrong, and everyone accepted it.
Today, we know that the little iron there is in spinach cannot make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs—folic acid(叶酸).
It is interesting to point out that folic acid can help make a person strong. Maybe it was really the folic acid that made Popeye strong all along.
【小题1】A good title for this reading passage is .A．Popeye the SailorB．The Truth About SpinachC．A Mistake with NumbersD．Folic Acid Makes You Strong【小题2】Why did many people eat spinach after they saw Popeye the Sailor?A．They thought spinach made them strong.B．They thought Popeye was funny.C．Spinach had a lot of iron.D．People liked folic acid.【小题3】A research group told people that spinach .A．made Popeye strongB．was a green vegetableC．had less iron than other green vegetablesD．had more iron than other green vegetables【小题4】Folic acid is .A．something in foodB．a vegetableC．dangerousD．a certain kind of spinachB

(答案→)B 解析：文章介绍了关于菠菜的真相，菠菜里面并不是含有非常多的铁元素，而是叶酸。【小题1】B 主旨大意题。文章解释了关于菠菜的真相，菠菜里面并不是含有非常多的铁元素，而是叶酸。故B正确。【小题2】A 细节题。根据第二段第一行Many people thought that the iron in spinach made Popeye strong可知A正确。【小题3】D 细节题。根据第三段第3行This group said that spinach had ten times more iron than it did.可知D正确。【小题4】A 细节题。根据文章最后两段可知在蔬菜里含有很多叶酸。故A正确。

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