Indians in North and South America ate popcorn thousands of years. Scientists found some ears of popcorn in New Mexico, a state in the United States. They were 5.600 years old. Farmers probably learned to raise popcorn first before they planted other kinds of corn. Farmers now raise popcorn in the United States, Australia, Argentina, South Africa and South Europe.
Corn was an important food for the Indians. It was also important for the religion. When Columbus and other Europeans visited the...
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Indians in North and South America ate popcorn thousands of years. Scientists found some ears of popcorn in New Mexico, a state in the United States. They were 5.600 years old. Farmers probably learned to raise popcorn first before they planted other kinds of corn. Farmers now raise popcorn in the United States, Australia, Argentina, South Africa and South Europe.
Corn was an important food for the Indians. It was also important for the religion. When Columbus and other Europeans visited the New World, they saw this. When the Indians and Europeans had their first Thanksgiving, they ate popcorn. Today Thanksgiving is an important holiday in the United States, but people don’t usually eat popcorn for this holiday now. In the 1920s, people started selling popcorn at movies. Now most movie theaters in the United States sell popcorn. Popcorn and movie go together very well.
Is popcorn good for you? Yes, it is. However, some people put a lot of salt and butter or
vegetable oil on it. It tastes good that way, but it is not very good for you.
1. Where did popcorn come from?
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2.What does the word “raise”in line four closely mean?
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3. When did movie theaters start selling popcorn?
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5.The word ''However'' in line 11 closely means..............
People have smoked for a long time now. The tobacco, which is used to make cigarettes, was first grown in what is now part of the United States. Christopher Columbus, who (1)discovered America, (2)saw the Indians smoking. Soon the dried leaves were transported to Europe where smoking began to catch on. (3)In the late 1800s, the Turk made cigarettes popular.
Cigarette smoke contains at least (4)two harmful substances, tar and nicotine. Tar, which forms (5)as the tobacco burns, damages the lungs (6)and therefore affects breathing. Nicotine, which is found in the leaves, causes the (7)heart to beat faster and increases the breathing rate.
Smoking cigarettes is dangerous. The US Public Health Service stated that (8)cigarette smoking is the cause of lung cancer and several (9)other deadly diseases. The US government now requires that each package of cigarettes bears a special warning about the (10)danger of smoking.