[填空题]The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council say Germany is the birthplace of the hot dog.

[填空题]The National Hot Dog and Sausage Council say Germany is the birthplace of the hot dog.

[单项选择]A hot dog is one of the most popular American foods. It was named after frankfurter, a German food.
You may hear "hot dog" (16) in other ways. People sometimes say "hot dog" to express (17) . For example (例如), a friend may ask (18) you would like go to the cinema. You might say, "Great! I would love to go." Or, you could say, " (19) ! I would love to go."
People (20) use the expression to describe (描写) someone who is a "Show-off", who tries to show everyone else how (21) he is. You often hear such (22) called a "hot dog". He may be a baseball player for example, who (23) the ball with one hand, making a(n) (24) catch seen more difficult. You know he is a hot dog because when he makes such a catch, he bows (鞠躬) to the crowd, hoping to win their (25) .

A. eaten
B. used
C. cooked

[填空题]Americans love the hot dog, and according to the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, Americans consume about 7,000 million of these sausages per year.

[填空题]People not only like the meat in the hot dog, but enjoy its various tasty additions, such as mustard, onion, and pickle.

[单项选择]暂缺题干Why did Robby go back to the hot dog seller
A. She wanted to think the hot dog seller.
B. The homeless man asked her for a hot dog.
C. She wanted to buy a hot dog for the homeless man.
D. The hot dog was so delicious that Robby wanted another.

[单项选择]Every Dog Has His Say Kimiko Fukuda always wondered what her dog was trying to say．Whenever she put on makeup，it would pull at her sleeve___(46)When the dog barks，she glances at a small electronic gadget(装置)．The following“human”translation appears on its screen：“Please take me with you”“I realized that’s how he was feeling．”says Fukuda The gadget is called Bowlingual，and it translates dog barks into feelings．People laughed when the Japanese toymaker Takara Company made the world’s first dog-human translation machine in 2002．But 300，000 Japanese dog owners bought it．____(47) “Nobody else had thought about it，”said Masahiko Kajita，who works for Takara．“We spend so much time training dogs to understand our orders；what would it be like if we could understand dogs” Bowlingual has two pars____(48) The translation is done in the gadget using a database containing every kind of bark． Based 011 animal behaviour research，these noises are divided into six categories：happiness，sadnes