Question

  Green is an important colour in nature. It is the colour of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the colour of most growing plants.

  Sometimes,the word green means young,fresh and growing. Sometimes,it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished.

  For example,a greenhorn is someone who has no experience,who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century,a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns had not yet developed. A century or so later,a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any expe?rience in battle. By the eighteenth century,a green?horn had the meaning it has today―a person who is new in a job.

  Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from the early 1900s.

  A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

  The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.

  Green is also the colour used to describe the pow?erful emotion,jealousy. The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else.

1. Which of the following is NOT the meaning of the word "green"?

   A. Ripe.

   B. Young.

   C. Fresh.

   D. Growing.

2. From the third paragraph,we can conclude that     

   A. a greenhorn refers to a horn of a young cow or ox

   B. a word has different meanings in the same century

   C. the language continually develops with time going by

   D. a greenhorn means a soldier who hasn't had any experience in battle today

3. If a person has a green thumb,he or she probably

   A. suffers from an illness in the thumb

   B. has a thumb in green colour

   C. does well in growing plants

   D. has wonderful magic and energy

4. The underlined word " It" in the last paragraphrefers to "        ”.

   A. jealousy

   B. the green-eyed monster

   C. outer space

   D. green

5. If Green has a beautiful dress that Mary likes verymuch,           . .

   A. Green may suffer from the green-eyed monster

   B. Mary may suffer from the green-eyed monster

   C. Mary is probably a girl with a green thumb

   D. Green is probably called a greenhorn

Answer 1

本文主要介紹了單詞green以及含有green的復合詞的不同含義。

1. A細節理解題。根據第二段中的"Sometimes,it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished."可知，有時候，green用來描述還未成熟或未完成的事情。所以答案為A.

2. C推理判斷題。根據第三段的內容可知，在不同時期，單詞greenhorn的意義是不同的，所以可推斷出語言隨著時間的推移是不斷發展的。

3. C細節理解題。根據第四段的"Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb."

4. B代詞指代題。根據上文的"The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space."可知，此處it 指的是the green-eyed monster。

5. B推理判斷題。根據最后一段中的"It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has some?thing he wants."可知B項是正確的。