What are you going to be when you grow up? Maybe a teacher, a doctor or a scientist? How about an ice-cream taster? There is really a job where you can get paid by tasting ice-cream. And this is what Feng Yuanyuan now does.
Feng Yuanyuan, born in 1995, has worked at an ice-cream company for two years. Her main role is to taste and test ice-cream products(产品). Usually she tastes more than ten ice-creams a day, but sometimes she has to taste over twenty ice-creams. After eating one, she needs to wash her mouth with lots of warm water so as to comfort her tongue. Through this taste-testing, Feng makes more than 10,000 yuan a month, more than most of her college classmates. However, a by-product of eating so much ice-cream is that she is getting fat. “I need to take exercise every day to keep in shape,” said Feng.
“To be an ice-cream taster, a person needs to have a sensitive(敏感的) tongue and he must really like ice-cream. Many people may become tired of ice-cream easily if they have to eat it every day, so a good ice-cream taster isn’t easy to find,” said Feng.
This cool job keeps Feng Yuanyuan busy but happy. She’s also very happy that the company’s products sell well. “After more than a year’s hard work, I can tell if an ice-cream has additives(添加剂) just by tasting it. I hope that in the future, I can find out what a product is made from with only one bite,” Feng said.
()1. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Feng Yuanyuan is the first ice-cream taster in the country.
B. The main work of the ice-cream taster is to test ice-cream by tasting it.
C. The ice-cream tasters drink less water because they eat much more ice-cream.
D. The ice-cream taster is a well-paid job and more people want to take it.
()2. The underlined word “by-product” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to “”.
A. reason B. question C. prize D. result
()3. What’s the main idea of Paragraph 3?
A. A sensitive tongue is important to an ice-cream taster.
B. Eating ice-cream every day is boring and meaningless.
C. Working as an ice-cream taster is not as easy as we think.
D. Everyone can be an ice-cream taster as long as they like ice-cream.
()4. What can we know about Feng Yuanyuan from the last paragraph?
A. It’s her hard work that makes her company’s products sell well.
B. She hopes that ice-cream can be free of additives one day.
C. She likes her job and she will spend her whole life doing it.
D. She is going to work harder to become a better ice-cream taster.

D
【短文大意】本文是一篇记叙文，讲述了一位冰激凌品尝师的工作以及感受。
1. B 【解析】细节理解题。由第二段“Her main role is to taste and test ice-cream products. ”可知，应选 B。
2. D 【解析】词义猜测题。本句意为“然而，吃太多冰激凌的结果是她发胖了”。故选 D。
3. C 【解析】段落大意题。本段意为“作为一名冰激凌品尝师，必须有敏感的舌头，但每天品尝冰激凌也会使人厌倦，所以它并非是许多人想象中的那样容易”。故选 C。
4. D 【解析】推理判断题。本段意为“她虽然很忙，但也很开心，她也为公司的产品销量好感到开心，并希望以后能更高效地工作”。故选 D。