【推荐1】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. served        B. spares        C. yields        D. practically        E. consumed        F. reminds        G. tosses H. strikingly       I. stubbornly        J. desired        K. flavors

Yunnan Province, covering an area of 394,000 square kilometers, combines unique ethnic cultures, magnificent mountain scenery, rainforest, tea plantations, ancient towns and delicious food. Kunming, Dali, Lijiang and Shangri-La are always on the bucket list to those who haven’t been to Yunnan before.

In the courtyard of her restaurant in Xishuangbanna, Su Ying is preparing to give me a cooking lesson. But she has no pots and pans. Instead, she is going to cook the food in banana leaves and tubes of fresh bamboo on a small fire under an iron tripod in a corner of the yard.

Su    1    a mixture of wild vegetables with lemongrass and chili and wraps them up in banana leaves. She seasons sliced beef with chili herbs and spices and puts it into a tube of freshly cut bamboo. Another tube is filled with a more exotic delicacy: live bamboo worms, which she mixes with herbs and spices. Su then thrusts the tubes into the fire.

Even to many Chinese, Yunnan seems exotic. Its remoteness     2    it much of the overdevelopment and pollution. The province is a global hotspot of biodiversity and boasts a    3    wide range of local ingredients. Most famously, the summer mushroom season     4    some 300 varieties of edible(可食用的) fungi, including delicacies such as savory matsutake(松茸). There are countless wild plants and plenty of bugs and grubs.

On my trips to the province over the years I have dined on toasted barley flour and     5    cups of yak butter tea (酥油茶) in a town now known as Shangri-la. In the north-east of the province I gorged on (狼吞虎咽) spicy hotpots. Even farther north I visited the center of ham production in Xuanwei, where I tasted delicate soups and stews. Here in Xishuangbanna. I was tasting the sour and hot     6    and fresh herbs of the tropical south.

No one restaurant or chef could represent Yunnan. There is no single overarching Yunnan cuisine, but a selection of overlapping ones. And more than anywhere else in China, delicacies     7    on table in Yunnan use a large proportion of the ingredients that are     8    local and unavailable elsewhere. In an age when people can sample delicacies from     9    anywhere in the world without even having to leave home, Yunnan     10    us that for a real taste of local culinary culture, sometimes you just have to go to the source.

【推荐2】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. automatically       B. coexist       C. concept       D. discontinued       E. discouraged F. necessarily       G. optimism       H. priced       I. profit-generating       J. promotional K. trash

Too Good To Go

Around the country, apps that connect customers to businesses with leftover food have begun to spread. The     1     is simple: Restaurants and grocery stores throw away huge amounts of food every day. Rather than     2     it, apps like Too Good To Go and Flashfood help businesses sell it at a reduced price. They claim that the businesses and buyers are helping the environment because the food would otherwise become food waste, a big contributor to climate change.

In the United States, customers in 12 cities can look through restaurants and stores on Too Good To Go, then reserve “surprise bags” that typically cost about $4 to $6 and contain food that would have been     3     at roughly three times that amount.

Several food waste experts expressed     4     that these types of apps could help limit the amount of wasted food. And even though charitable organizations often redirect unwanted food from restaurants and grocery stores to food banks and community kitchens, there’s space for all of these kinds of solutions to     5    .

One complication is that, according to interviews with several companies selling on Too Good To Go, at least a few items for sale there aren’t     6     what buyers might think of as “food waste.” The owner of a Baltimore dessert shop said she considered the app a(n)     7     tool to reach new customers by selling what she called “little samples.” A beer company owner said he used the app to sell     8     products, but also sold new flavors there in hopes of attracting new customers.

Mr. Crummie, the Too Good To Go director, said the app     9     this type of behavior. “If somebody is paying $5, they should be receiving $15 worth of food,” he said. “So it’s not a(n)     10     platform.”

【推荐3】Complete the dialogue with the word and phrases below. You can use each one more than once.

like     a bit     a kind of

Henry: Have you ever tried Indian food? It’s     1     spicy, but I think it’s delicious.
Susanne: No, I haven’t. Is it     2     Chinese food?
Henry: No, it’s completely different. One of my favourite dishes is Biryani. It’s     3     rice dish with chicken or lamb that you eat with a vegetable curry.
Susanne: Hmm, that sounds tasty, but isn’t Indian food     4     boring? It’s all rice and curries, isn’t it?
Henry: Not at all, there are a lot of vegetable dishes and Indians like eating fried chicken too. It’s just     5     the fried chicken you can get here.
Susanne: Well, I like fried chicken, so I guess I would definitely like that. But don’t Indians also eat     6     cabbage and ginger thing?
Henry: Cabbage and ginger thing? Do you mean kimchi?
Susanne: Yes, it’s     7     hot, isn’t it?
Henry: Yes, you’re right, but kimchi isn’t an Indian dish. It’s Korean!