C

What are the chances of a 100-year-old chocolate candy falling in your treat bag this Halloween? Though Goo Goo Clusters may not be as familiar as Kit Kat or Hershey bars, people of all ages have enjoyed it for an entire century.

In 1901, a 19-year-old named Howell Campbell opened a candy store in Nashville, Tennessee. He made all kinds of sweets and hard candies with just two copper kettles and about a dozen employees. Then, in 1912, he made the first candy to combine chocolate with other ingredients such as caramel, marshmallow, nougat, and peanuts. Originally, these clusters were hand-wrapped and sold under the counter at a few local stores with a sign reading,“A nourishing (滋养的) lunch for a nickel.” Now, they are known as Goo Goo Clusters.

What else makes a Goo Goo so special?“In addition to it being the very first-ever combination confection created, its shape also makes it quite unique,’’ says Beth Sachan, Goo Goo Clusters’ senior marketing manager.“The Goo Goo Cluster is a big, imperfectly round mound (垛) of deliciousness!”

The 100th anniversary of the Goo Goo Cluster is being celebrated throughout the month of October, the biggest candy-selling month of the year. About 40 restaurants in the Nashville area have created unique desserts inspired by Goo Goo Clusters to serve to their customers.

Additionally, a Goo Goo-sponsored race called the “Jog’n Hog” was held in Nashville on October 13. Adults and children ran three miles to the finish line after eating at least one of six Goo Goo Clusters from a bag they were given at the halfway point. A golden Goo Goo was hidden in one of the bags. The winner received a $100 gift certificate to the candy’s website, googoo. com.

28. We can learn from the first paragraph that Goo Goo Clusters _____.

A. have been popular with the customers     B. will be sold out by this Halloween

C. look like Kit Kat and Hershey bars        D. are much better than other candies

29. The underlined word “confection” probably means _____.

A. ingredient            B. candy        C. food           D. deliciousness

30. The customers would like to enjoy Goo Goo Clusters probably because of _____.

A. its weight and combination                B. its package and design

C. its fair price and low cost             D. its shape and deliciousness

31. The 100th anniversary of the Goo Goo Cluster is being celebrated by _____.

A. offering specially designed desserts         B. giving away many gift certificates

C. opening a lot of restaurants                 D. holding a competition of eating candies

D

Love to sink into your chairs and relax when you get to school? Then you will not be happy to hear that schools all over the world are seriously considering exchanging traditional desks for ones with no seats at all — Yes, that means you will be encouraged to stand through those already too long math and science lessons! Why would anyone even think of putting kids to such cruelty? Experts say it improves their health and helps fight obesity. While that may seem a little far-fetched (牵强的) the officials at the few schools around the world seem to agree.

Among them are educators from the College Station Independent School District in Texas, who recently completed a week-long experiment involving 480 students across three elementary schools. The 374 kids that agreed to participate in the study were provided a device that helped record step count and calorie consumption over the entire period.

All 25 teachers involved in the study reported that students appeared to be more alert and concentrate better, when allowed to stand. The one thing that did surprise the researchers was that younger kids were more willing to stay standing than kids in higher grades. They believe this may have something to do with the fact that after years of being asked to “sit still”, older kids have a harder time adjusting to this unexpected freedom.

American schools are not the only ones reporting success with stand-up desks. Four Catholic schools in Perth, Australia, which have been testing them since October 2013, have seen similar results. In May 2014, Grove House Primary School in Bradford, West Yorkshire, became Europe’s first test one, with a seven-week trial that involved the use of desks made by Ergotron in their fifth-grade classrooms. While official results are not out yet, early reactions from both teachers and students, have been extremely encouraging.

The findings of these studies and others done previously, all seem to mean that allowing kids to move around in classrooms is a win-win for students and teachers — it helps kids get healthier and provides educators with a more engaged audience.

32. According to the first paragraph, what may make the students at school unhappy is that _____.

A. they have to exchange desks with each other

B. they have to exchange traditional desks for ones with no seats

C. there are no seats for them to sit in class

D. the officials show no sympathy to them at all

33. According to the teachers, older students may not like stand-up desks because _____.

A. they are cleverer than younger students     B. they are easily tired of standing long

C. they have formed the habit of sitting         D. they do badly in class while standing

34. What is most likely to be the result of the seven-week trial?

A. The standing desks can’t be used at all.

B. It is good for students to use stand-up desks.

C. More tests should be done in other schools.

D. The students are different in personality.

35. Why do the teachers like the standing desks?

A. Because the educators can draw the students’ attention.

B. Because the teachers can keep the students healthy.

C. Because the students can have a walk in the classroom.

D. Because the standing desks can keep the students concentrated.