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Believe it or not, America's favorite snack food is the potato chip. There is a story behind how it was
first made. One might think that something genius thought up the first potato chips, but it didn't happen
that way. The Moon Lake Restaurant was a well-known restaurant in New York in 1853. Its menu included
French-fried potatoes: a popular food recipe brought back from France by Thomas Jefferson. These were
thickly cut potatoes, fried until golden brown and crisp in the outside. One evening a guest in the dining hall
felt that his potatoes were too thick and sent them back to the kitchen. The cook sliced some potatoes thinner
than before and prepared them for the complaining guest. He was still not satisfied and sent them back again!
By this time the cook was angry and decided to do exactly what the dinner guest wanted: slice the potatoes
as thin as possible. Then they would be so crisp that the diner wouldn't be able to use his fork to eat them.
When the paper thin browned potatoes arrived the dinner was pleased. He was so happy with them that other
guests started ordering the new potatoes. The cook's plan to stop the dinner guest from complaining did not
turn out as he had planned. Soon Saratoga Chips appeared on the menu and became so popular that people
wanted to take some home. The restaurant started selling small packages of the potato chips. A few years later
they were selling all over the United States. But because the potatoes had to be peeled by hand, it was a time-
consuming chore and potato ships were often out of stock. In the 1920s a mechanical potato peeler was
invented and soon there were potato chips in abundance. They gradually spread all over the world, and have
remained popular ever since.
1. According to this passage,the cook of the Moon Lake Restaurant _____. [ ]
A. enjoyed making potato chips very much
B. wanted to silence a guest's complaining
C. liked playing jokes on guests
D. was pleased that other guests liked the chips
2. The restaurant started to sell potato chips because _____.[ ]
A. potato chips were liked by people
B. the dinner guest asked for them
C. it was not difficult to cook them
D. they were pleased with the thick potato chips
3. According to this passage, mass production of potato chips was made possible when _____. [ ]
A. potatoes could be peeled by machines
B. potatoes were peeled by a large number of cooks
C. there was a growing demand for them
D. they first appeared in a restaurant
4. Potato chips have been popular in the US _____. [ ]
A. for more than 200 years
B. ever since 1920
C. for less than 100 years
D. since the 19th century
