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fairs. People could not get enough of it! Soon movie theaters began selling popcorn too. This started the tradition of eating popcorn at the movies. At this time popcorn became more popular than ever. For a short time though, people be-gan eating less popcorn. In the 1950s television was still very new. Many people stayed home to watch television instead of going to movies. Few people owned popcorn poppers. Then microwave ovens(微波炉) were invented. It became easy to make popcorn at home. Americans started to eat more popcorn again—more than one billion pounds each year! 1.Why is popcorn a popular snack? ???? 2.What happens in the corn kernel when it is heated? ???? 3.How did people make popcorn thousands of years ago? ???? 4.When were the first popcorn poppers invented? ???? 5.Why did Americans eat more popcorn again? ???? 答案 [语篇解读]　本文是一篇说明文,主要介绍了备受人们喜爱的爆米花的制作原理,以及不同时期人们食用爆米花的不同情况。 1.Because it is delicious, cheap and easy to make.　从文中第一段最后两句可知答案。 2.The water in it turns to steam.　从文中第二段第三句可知答案。 3.By putting corn kernels on red-hot stones near a fire.　从文中第三段前两句可知答案。 4.In the 1880s.　从文中第四段第一句可知答案。 5.Because microwave ovens were invented, and it became easy to make popcorn at home.　从文中最后一段最后三句可知答案。 深度解析　本文是一篇介绍爆米花的说明文。考查考生对文章细节的理解与把握,答题时考生需要注意特殊疑问句的回答方式,熟练掌握“why, what, how, when”等特殊疑问词的含义和回答方式,其中how询问方式,回答时要用by;why询问原因,要用because来回答。 Passage 3(2017通州一模) How many times have your parents told you that you must eat your green vegetables? We all know that green vegetables are healthy, but what about other food of different colors? You dont need to like all food, but it is good to have different colors in your diet, for example, red food such as strawberries and tomatoes, yellow food such as bananas and pears and orange food such as pota-toes and oranges. But what about blue food? A few years ago, a food company added the color blue to its bags of sweets. Children like the color blue, so were the blue sweets popular? The food company wa