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浙江桐乡市2016中考英语阅读理解二轮编练（1）及答案 【牛刀小试】 【能力选练】 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 33percent 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 can not make a difference in how strong a person is. However, spinach does have something else which the body needs---folic acid. 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. 26.The best title for this reading passage is _______. A. Popeye the Sailor B. The truth about spinach C. A mistake with numbers D. Folic acid makes you strong 27. 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 28. According to the research group, people thought that spinach ____. A. made Popeye strong B. was a green vegetable C. had less iron than other green vegetables D. had more iron than other green vegetables. 29. The reading passage says that perhaps Popeye got his strength from___. A. iron B. folic acid