专题07 短文选词填空12篇（名校模拟+地区真题）-冲刺2024年中考英语必考题型终极预测（上海专用）

冲刺2024年中考英语必考题型终极预测（上海专用） 专题07 短文选词填空12篇 （2024·上海奉贤·一模）Is a Tomato a Fruit or a Vegetable? A．consists of         B．simple       C． produce      D．as well as       E. difficult There’s no doubt that tomatoes have many different uses. They can be used in a summer salad or to make a tasty sauce. But is the tomato a fruit? Or are we eating a vegetable? Farmers, cooks and lawyers all have different answers to this question. But it may seem 1 to us. Eat it for lunch? Vegetable. Eat it for dessert? Fruit! But it’s not that easy. There are legal definitions (法律界定) for what are considered fruits and vegetables, 2 scientific ones. To answer the question “Is a tomato a fruit?”, let’s look at the definition of fruit. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, fruit is “the part of a plant that 3 one or more seeds and flesh (果肉) can be eaten as food and usually tastes sweet.” Like other true fruits, tomatoes form from small yellow flowers on the vine (藤蔓) and naturally contain many seeds. These seeds can later be used to 4 more tomato plants. A．equally  B．decision      C． In conclusion      D．claimed      E. suggestion Does that mean that pumpkins, peppers and cucumbers are fruits? Yes, scientifically speaking, they are all fruits. Then, what is a vegetable? Simply put, if you just eat the stems or leaves or roots or flowers of a plant, that makes it a vegetable. 5 , carrots, potatoes and broccoli (西兰花) are all vegetables. While tomatoes are scientifically fruits, they’re legally classed as vegetables. In 1893, the U. S Congress (美国国会) passed a law. It put a 10-percent tax on whole vegetables. So, to avoid paying the fee, sellers 6 that tomatoes were fruit. The Supreme Court (美国最高法院) then made a 7 for the case. It stated that tomatoes were vegetables instead of fruit. The reason was that cooks prepared them and people ate them like vegetables. This means, legally speaking, tomatoes are vegetables. When it comes down to the exact