Sandwich was an Englishman. He lived in the 18th century(世纪). Sandwich was rich (有钱的), but he liked to play cards (纸牌) for money. He often played for 24 hours, and didn't even stop to have his meals. He ordered (命令) his servants (仆人) to bring him some meat and bread. He put the meat between (在两者之间) the two pieces of bread and held the food in his left hand while he playedcards with his right hand. People likedSandwich's idea, and from then on they ate bread and meat as Sandwich did. From the name of the man, Sandwich, we have the word of the food “sandwich” today.
1．Sandwich was the ________. ( )
| A．name of a servant | B．name of a man with a lot of money |
| C．poor man who lived on playing cards | D．name of food which was liked by the rich |
2．Sandwich ________. ( )
| A．was so interested (兴趣) in playing cards that he often had no time to have his meals |
| B．often brought some bread with him to play cards |
| C．never ate anything when he played cards |
| D．had no money to play cards with at last |
3．People liked Sandwich's idea because ________. ( )
| A．bread, together with meat was cheap | B．he always won when he played cards |
| C．they liked Sandwich himself | D．when they ate with one of their hands they could do something with the other |
4．Today, “sandwich” is ________. ( )
| A．also a name of a rich man. | B．two pieces of bread with meat in between. |
| C．not interested in playing cards. | D．not liked by most of the people. |
5．As food, “sandwich” ________. ( )
| A．is usually made of (用……制做) bread and chicken. |
| B．sometimes smells (闻) good, but sometimes not. |
| C．is made of bread and meat. |
| D．is easy for us to play. |
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