[听力原文] 11-15
Most Americans think that ice cream is as American as baseball and apple pie. But ice cream was known long before America was discovered.
The Roman emperor Nero may have made a kind of ice cream. He hired hundreds of men to bring snow and ice from the mountains. He used it to make cold drinks. Traveler Marco Polo brought the method of making cold and frozen milk from China.
Hundreds of years later，ice cream reached England. It is said that King Charles I enjoyed that treat very muck. There is a story that he ordered his cook to keep the method of making ice cream a royal secret. Today ice cream is known throughout the world. Americans alone eat more than two billion quarts a year.
How many quarts of ice cream have been eaten by Americans in one year（）
The Americans eat more than quarts of ice cream in a year.
I don’t know if there’s something in the water, but my town has exploded with tons of single people! Just last year, practically the only eligibles I knew were my divorced friend Patti, my bud Fulgencio, hubby Rick’s barfly pat Craig, and Jimmy the pizza delivery guy. But now, I find-out that my cousin Michelle is leaving her second husband, and a recent chit-chat with my building’s manager Sandy revealed that she hasn’t had a serious relationship in almost five years! Besides that, at least five suspected singletons have moved into my building since June. Five!
For an incurable romantic like me, this is heartbreaking. People are meant to have sweeties! I feel so sorry for single people. How can they bear going through life alone I know a lot of them put up. that "independent" front, or use that "I’m just waiting for the right person" defense, but they’re kidding themselves. Why would anyone turn up her nose at
A. She is not sure whether her water is too dirty to drink
B. She is not sure whether something is wrong in the water system
C. She is not sure why being single is so pervasive in her town
D. She is not sure why single people move to her town
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