2013年12月四级听力模拟试题十二_大学英语听力

2013年12月四级听力模拟试题十二

　　29. What misunderstanding about back pain do people hold in the beginning?

　　30. What role does surgery play in curing back pain?

　　31. Why dont back pain patients get put to bed for more than two or three days?

　　Passage Three

　　No one knows who made the first ice cream. Some people think that water ices and milk ices may have been made by the Chinese between three thousand and four thousand years ago. In time, the dish reached India. The Indians, in turn, may have passed on the secret to the Arabs and the Persians. The Persians called their dish sharbat, from which our word sherbet comes. Marco Polo, an Italian who traveled widely in the thirteenth century, noted that he found the Chinese had long been making ices out of fruit juices and milk. From the fourteenth century on, ices became popular, first in Venice and then throughout Italy. In 1533, when Catherine de Medici left Italy to marry the future King HenryⅡof France, she took her cooks with her. They made desserts the French had never tasted before. Among them was ice cream. For each day of the wedding festivities Catherines cooks prepared a different flavor of her favorite dessert - ice cream. At first ice cream was a luxury in France. Only rich people had the money to buy it. Then, in 1660, a young man from Sicily, Francisco Procopio, arrived in Paris. He opened a shop that sold ice cream at prices people could afford. Procopios ice cream parlor became so popular that other shops were opened. About 1640, King CharlesⅠintroduced ice cream to England. He had heard it was the rage in Italy and France. He served ice cream for dessert at a banquet. The surprise dish was a great success. The king ordered his cook to keep the recipe for ice cream a secret. Charles felt that only royalty should be served the dessert. But the secret soon leaked out. Ice cream quickly became the rage in England too.