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亮点原创 Did you know the inside of a cucumber is often much 1 （cool）than its outside? No wonder that for hundreds of years，people have said someone is “cool as a cucumber” if the person stays calm no matter what is happening.
There are many 2 （express）about food that people use to explain situations or pass along advice. Most people know what a cucumber is and that makes the phrase easy 3 （understand）and remember. How many of these other food expressions do you know?
The Big Cheese
No one knows for sure how “the big cheese” came to mean a very important person. About 150 years ago，“cheese” 4 （mean）anything that was first - rate，but today it means something that is cheap or corny.
Some people think the expression comes 5 the Persian or Hindi word “chiz”，which means “thing”. About 100 years ago，the word “big” was added 6 （describe）wealth and power.
There's No Use Crying Over Spilt Milk
This is another expression that people 7 （use）for hundreds of years，but no one remembers where it came from. Here is one suggestion：Spilling or 8 （waste）any food was a bad thing long ago when people had little to eat. But some 9 （family）left out a gift for fairies or sprites and that treat was often cold，creamy milk. So spilling milk could be seen as a good thing 10 it could make the fairies happy and bring good luck. Besides，there was no point being upset over something that had already happened and could not be changed.
亮点原创 Did you know the inside of a cucumber is often much 1 （cool）than its outside? No wonder that for hundreds of years，people have said someone is “cool as a cucumber” if the person stays calm no matter what is happening.
There are many 2 （express）about food that people use to explain situations or pass along advice. Most people know what a cucumber is and that makes the phrase easy 3 （understand）and remember. How many of these other food expressions do you know?
The Big Cheese
No one knows for sure how “the big cheese” came to mean a very important person. About 150 years ago，“cheese” 4 （mean）anything that was first - rate，but today it means something that is cheap or corny.
Some people think the expression comes 5 the Persian or Hindi word “chiz”，which means “thing”. About 100 years ago，the word “big” was added 6 （describe）wealth and power.
There's No Use Crying Over Spilt Milk
This is another expression that people 7 （use）for hundreds of years，but no one remembers where it came from. Here is one suggestion：Spilling or 8 （waste）any food was a bad thing long ago when people had little to eat. But some 9 （family）left out a gift for fairies or sprites and that treat was often cold，creamy milk. So spilling milk could be seen as a good thing 10 it could make the fairies happy and bring good luck. Besides，there was no point being upset over something that had already happened and could not be changed.
答案
1. cooler 2. expressions 3. to understand 4. meant 5. from 6. to describe 7. have used 8. wasting 9. families 10. because
