Everybody knows that hamburger is a very popular American food. However, people in the United States learned to make hamburgers from Germans, and the Germans got the idea from Russia.
In the thirteenth century the Tartar people from Central Asia moved into Russia and parts of Europe. They fought the Russians and won. They ate something like hamburger meat, but it was raw (生的). This raw meat was beef, goat meat or horse meat. Soon the Russians started to eat raw meat too. Germans from Hamburg and other northern cities to eat this food from the Russians. However, they added salt, pepper (胡椒), a raw egg, and then cooked it.
Between 1830 and 1900 thousands of Germans went to live in the United States. They took the hamburger with them. People called it hamburger steak (牛排，扒).
In 1904 at the World's Fair in St. Louis (a city on the Mississippi River), a man from Texas sold hamburger steak in a roll (a kind of bread). Then people could eat it with their hands, like a sandwich. This was the first real hamburger like the hamburgers we eat today.
Today some people still like to eat raw beef. They call it "steak tartare."
Choose the correct answer.
1. The making of the hamburger dates back to _____.
A. 1830
B. 1904
C. the 13th century
D. the 19th century
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2. Who influenced Americans to make hamburgers?
A. Germans.
B. Russians.
C. The Tartar people.
D. None of the above.
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3. The Germans' hamburger meat was a little different from the Russians' because _____.
A. the Germans' hamburger meat was cooked
B. the Germans' hamburger meat was eaten raw
C. salt, pepper and egg were added to the Germans' hamburger meat
D. both A and C
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4. Which of the following is most like the food the Tartar people ate?
A. The sandwich.
B. The hamburger.
C. The hamburger steak.
D. The "steak tartare".
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5. It was in _____ that people enjoyed the first real hamburger.
A. Germany
B. Russia
C. America
D. Central Asia
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