But in the end tomatoes carried the day.The hero of the tomato was an American named Robert Johnson,and when he was publicly going to eat the tomato in 1820,people journeyed for hundreds of miles to watch him drop dead.“What are you afraid of?”he shouted.“I?ll show you fools that these things are good to eat!”Then he bit into the tomato.Some people fainted.But he survived and,according to a local story,set up a tomato-canning factory.

　　1.The tomato was shut out of the door of early Europeans mainly because. 

　　A.it made Christians evil

　　B.it was the apple of Eden

　　C.it came from a forbidden land

　　D.it was religiously unacceptable

　　2.What can we infer from the underlined part in Paragraph 3?

　　A.The process of ignoring the tomato slowed down.

　　B.There was little progress in the study of the tomato.

　　C.The tomato was still refused in most western countries.

　　D.Most western people continued to get rid of the tomato.

　　3.What is the main reason for Robert Johnson to eat the tomato publicly?

　　A.To make himself a hero.

　　B.To remove people?s fear of the tomato.

　　C.To speed up the popularity of the tomato.

　　D.To persuade people to buy products from his factory.

　　4.What is the main purpose of the passage?

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