题型：任务型阅读 题类：常考题 难易度：普通
黑龙江省哈尔滨市第六中学2019-2020学年高一上学期英语10月月考试卷
In our life most people like green and green is an important color in nature. It is the color of most growing plants. Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh, and growing.
For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the 15th century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns have not yet developed. By the 18th century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today - a person who is new in a job.
About 100 years ago. Greenhorn was a popular expression in the American west. The greenhorn lacked the skills he would need to live in the hard, rough country.
Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb.
A person with green thumb seems to make the plants grow quickly and well. You might say that the woman next door had a green thumb if her garden continues to grow long after your plants have died.
Green is also used to describe the unpleasant emotion, jealousy. The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature from outer space. It is an expression used about 400 years ago by William Shakespeare in his play "Othello". A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else. Or, that green-eyed monster may affect your friend if you get a pay raise and she does not.
A. The plants produced much larger crops.
B. The expression comes from the early 1900s.
C. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe or finished.
D. Later, it meant a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle.
E. It was used to describe a man who had just arrived from one of the big cities.
F. It was the result of hard work by agricultural scientists who had green thumbs.
G. It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants.
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