Passage Four
There was once a man who spent all his time in his glasshouse. Flowers was his name, and flowers were his main joy in life. He grew flowers of every color under the sun. He grew these flowers in order to enter them for competition. His greatest hope in life was to grow a rose of an entirely new color that would win him the silver cup for the Rose of the Year.
Mr. Flowers’ glasshouse was close to a public path, which was always used by children walking to and from school. Boys were often attracted to throw a stone or two at his glasshouse. So Mr. Flowers did his best to be in or close by his glasshouse at the beginning and end of the school day.
However, it was not convenient or possible to be on guard all the time. Mr. Flowers had tried in many ways to prevent harm to his glass; but nothing that he had done had been successful.
Then, just as he was giving up hope of ever winning the battle, and of growing the Rose of the Y
A. to grow beautiful flowers
B. to grow the Rose of the Year and win a prize
C. to grow all kinds of flowers in the world
D. to take part in the competition
The first man who cooked his food, instead of eating it raw, lived so long ago that we have no idea who he was or where he lived. We do know, however, that (56) thousands of years food was always eaten cold and (57) . Perhaps the cooked food was heated accidentally by a (58) fire or by the melted lava from an erupting (59) . When people first tasted food that had been cooked, they found it tasted better. However, (60) after this discover, cooked food must have remained a rarity (61) man learned how to make and light (62) .
Primitive men who lived in hot regions could depend on the heat of the sun (63) their food. For example, in the desert (64) of the southwestern. United States, the Indians cooked their food by (65) it on a flat (66) in the hot sun. They cooked piece of meat and thin cakes of corn meal in this (67) . We surmise that the earliest kitchen (68) was stick (69) w
A. food
B. a fire
C. himself
D. it
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