66.What is Ben Nevis special for?
A.The Inverlochy Castle Hotel.
B.The beauty of its surroundings.
C.The water from the mountain.
D.The challenge up to its top.
67.Waht is the main purpose of the passage?
A.To introduce Scottish traditions to tourists.
B.To show the attractions of Scotland to readers.
C.To explore geographical characteristics of Scotland.
D
To take the apple as a forbidden fruit is the most unlikely strory the Christians（基督教徒）ever cooked up. For them, the forbidden fruit from Eden is evil（邪恶的）.So when Colu  brought the tomato back from South America, a land mistakenly considered to be eden, ever jumped to be the obvious conclusion.Wrongly taken as the apple of Eden, the tomato was shut o  the door of Europeans.
What made it particularly terrifying was its similarity to the mandrake,a plant that was the to have come from Hell （地狱）.What earned the plant its awful reputation was its roots w  looked like a dried-up human body occupied by evil spirits.Tough the tomato and the man were quite different except that both had bright red or yellow fruit, the general population consio them one and the same, to terrible to touch.
Cautious Europeans long ignored the tomato, and until the early 1700s most of  the We people continued to drag their feet. In the 1880s, the daughter of a well-known plant expert that the most interestinig part of an afternoon tea at her father’s house had been the “introduction this wonderful new fruit-or is it a vegetable?”As late as the twentieth century some writers classed tomatoes with mandrakes as an”evil fruit”.
But in the end tomatoes carried the day. The hero of the tomato was an American named R  Johnson,and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820,people journeyed for hun of miles to watch him drop dead.”Wha are you afraid of?”he shouted.”I’ll show you fools these things are good to eat!” Then he bit into the tomato.Some people fainted. But he sur  and,according to a local story,set up a tomato-canning factory.
68. The  tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because ______.
A  it made Christive evil
B  it was the apple of Eden
C  it came from a forbidden land
D  it was religiously unacceptable
69. What can we infer the underlined part in Paragraph 3 ?
A  The  process of ignoring the tomato slowed down
B  There was little pregress in the study of the tomato
C  The tomato was still refused in most western countries
D  Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato
70. What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato Publicly ?
A To manke  imself  a hero
B To remove people’s fear of the tomaoto
C To speed up the popularityt of the tomato
D  To persuade people to buy products foom his factory

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