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[单项选择]During the early American colonial years, com was more plentiful than wheat, so com breed was more common than wheat bread. Friendly Indians showed colonists how to grow com and how to prepare it for food and pioneer women then improved the Indian cooking techniques. When people traveled, they went on foot or horseback, sleeping and eating in the forests. They carded com bread for sustenance; the com bread came to be called journey cake. Later when roads and taverns were built and stagecoaches carded passengers, journeycake became johnnycake, a name many easterners still use for corn breed. The kinds of bread made with cornmeal were-and still are-almost without limit. Every region has its specialties.
In colonial times, why was com bread more common than wheat bread
A. The colonists preferred com breed.
B. Corn was more abundant.
C. The colonists did not know how to make wheat bread.
D. Com bread did not spoil as rapidly as wheat breed di
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During the early American colonial years, corn was more plentiful than wheat, so corn bread was more common than wheat bread. Friendly Indians showed colonists how to grow corn and how to prepare it for food and pioneer women then improved the Indian cooking techniques. When people traveled, they went to foot or horseback, sleeping and eating in the forests. They carried corn bread for sustenance; the corn bread came to be called journey cake. Later when roads and taverns were built and stagecoaches carried passengers, journey cake became johnnycake, a name many easterners still use for corn bread. The kinds of bread made with cornmeal were-and still are-almost without limit. Every region has its specialities.
From the start, southerners showed a preference for white cornmeal, northerners for yellow. And pioneers on the frontier, when then ran out of yeast, made salt-rising bread. They stirred together water, a little water-ground cornmeal, potatoes, and salt. they set
A. A.The colonists preferred corn bread.
B.Corn bread did not spoil as rapidly as wheat bread did.
C. Corn was more abundant.
D. The colonists did not know how to make wheat bread.
[填空题]During McDonald’s early years French fries were made from scratch
every day. Fresh potatoes are peeled, cut into strings, and fried in the 67. ______.
kitchens. With the chain expanded nationwide, in the mid-1960s, it sought 68. ______.
to cut labor costs, reduce number of suppliers, and ensure that its fries 69. ______.
tasted the same at every restaurant.
McDonald’s began switching from frozen French fries in 1996, and few 70. ______.
customers notice the difference. But the change had a profound effect on the
nation’s agriculture and diet. A familiar food had been transmitted into a 71. ______.
highly processed industrial commodity. McDonald’s fries now come from
huge manufacturing plant that can process two million pounds of potatoes a 72. ______.
day. The expansion of McDonald’s and the popularity of its mass-producing, 73. ______.
low-cost fries changed the way how Americans eat.