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山西省运城市空港新区2017届高三英语模拟考试试题（三） 第部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分） 第一节 (共15小题; 每小题3分，满分45分) 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。A More?than?10?years?ago,?it?was?difficult?to?buy?a tasty?pineapple?(菠萝).?The? fruits that made it?to?the UK?were?green?on?the?outside?and，more?often?than not,?hard?with?antaste within. Then?in 1996,?the?Del?Monte?Gold?pineapple?produced?in Hawaii first hit our shelves. The?new?type?of?pineapple?looked?more?yellowy-gold than?green. It?was?slightly??softer ? on the?outside?and had?a?lot?of?juice?inside.?But?the?most?important thing?about?this?new?type? of?pineapple?was?that?it?was?twice?as?sweet?as?the?hit-and-miss pineapples?we?had?known. ?In? no time,?the?Del?Monte?Gold?took?the?market?by?storm,?rapidly becoming?the?world’s?best-selling pineapple?variety,?and?delivering?natural?levels?of?sweetness in?the?mouth,?up?until?then?only? found?in?tinned?pineapple. In?nutrition?(营养)?it?was?all?good?news?too.?This?nice?tasting?pineapple?contained?four imes more?vitamin?C?(维生素C)?than?the?old?green?variety. Nutritionists?said?that?it?wasnot only?full of vitamins,?but?also?good?against?some?diseases.?People?were?understandably eager?to?be?able to?buy?this?wonderful?fruit.?The?new?type?of?pineapple?was?selling?fast,?and the?Del?Monte?Gold pineapple?rapidly?became?a?fixture?in?the?shopping basket?of?the?healthy eater. Seeing?the?growing?market?for?its?winning?pineapple,?Del?Monte?tried?to?keep?the?market to?itself. But?other?fruit?companies?developed similar pineapples. ?Del?Monte turned?to law for help, but failed. Those?companies?argued?successfully?that?Del?Monte’s?attempts?to?keep?the golden?pineapple for?itself?were?just?a?way?to?knock?them?out?of the?market. 21.?We?learn?from?the?text?that?the?new?type?of?pineapple?is?__________. A.?green?outside?and?sweet?inside B.?good-looking?outside?and?soft?inside C.?yellowy-gold?outside?and?hard?inside D.?a?little?soft?outside?and?sweet?inside 22.?The?underlined?word?“fixture”?in?Paragraph?3?probably?refers?to?some