阅读理解

Green is an important colour in the nature . It is the colour of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the colour of most growing plants.

Sometimes，the word green means young，fresh and growing. Sometimes，it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished. For example，a green hand is someone who has no experience，who is new to a situation.

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb（拇指）. It comes from early nineteen hundreds. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.

The Green Revolution（革命）is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs. Green is also the colour used to describe such a cling-jealousy（j嫉妒）. The green-eyed monster（怪物）does not come from outer space. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. Your friend may suffer from（忍受. ……. 的折磨）the green-eyed monster if you get a pay rise and he does not.

【小题1】What does the underlined word “ripe” mean in Paragraph 2？

A．Grown.

B．Young.

C．New.

D．Unknown.

【小题2】What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about？

A．Who has a green thumb.	B．What the Green Revolution is.
C．What the meaning of “a green thumb” is.	D．Scientists have green thumbs.

【小题3】If Mary can grow red，yellow and white roses very well，we can say that she has ________.

A．a red thumb

B．a white thumb

C．a yellow thumb

D．a green thumb

【小题4】What does the underlined word “It" in Paragraph 5 refer to？

A．Green.	B．The green-eyed monster.
C．Outer space.	D．A feeling.

【小题5】In which column（栏目）of a magazine can we most probably read this passage？

A．Science in the News.	B．Health Report.
C．Words and Their Stories.	D．Education Report.