Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties (地方特色菜) in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key. “Food TV isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”
But Lieberman isn’t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights; Lieberman got the job.
1. What does the word “charisma” underlined in the text refer to?| A．A natural ability to attract others. | B．A way to show one’s achievement. |
| C．Lieberman’s after-class interest. | D．Lieberman’s fine cooking skill. |
| A．He could prepare meals in a small kitchen. | B．He was famous for his show on Food TV. |
| C．He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches. | D．He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals. |
| A．He is clever but lonely. | B．He is friendly and active. |
| C．He enjoys traveling around. | D．He often changes his menus. |
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【推荐1】In the coastal place of Gaza, groups of Palestinian women and men are getting seated for a course that enables them to learn professional cooking and serving skills.
Established in 2017, the school called Smile Kitchen is the first-ever one of such kind in Gaza. Specializing in teaching culinary (烹饪) arts, it has become a brand with hundreds of graduates. The initial intention of the founders Ahmed Taha and his wife was to teach youngsters how to cook at home with natural and organic ingredients (食材). But as the number of applicants rose, they decided to take further steps.
“In the first year, there were about 750 trainees who participated in the workshops provided by the school,” said the 42-year-old father of five. “Now, more than 3,500 students have joined our school, where they learn how to cook various kinds of international and Arab dishes.” Once they graduate, some join local restaurants, some work for international restaurants outside Gaza, and some start their own businesses.
“Cooking has been my hobby since I was a teenager,” said Manal al-Khatib, a Gazan woman. “Therefore, I come here to learn more about this field, especially about the international varieties of sweets and cake,” the 38-year-old mother of four said. “I had tried to make delicious sponge cakes several times, but unfortunately, all my attempts failed. This school has taught me how to improve my skills.”
Having graduated from the school, al-Khatib is planning to launch her own business and market the products through social media. “By using available tools at home, I can make sponge cakes, take photos, and post them on Facebook to attract customers,” the woman said, adding that she would make some money to cover the daily expenses of the family.
In addition to helping the students seek job opportunities, the school has provided them with the opportunity to be part of the competitions on cooking. “In 2020, four of our students managed to win five medals, including silver and bronze ones, in a competition held in Dubai,” Taha said.
1. Why did Ahmed Taha and his wife set up Smile Kitchen at the beginning?| A．To earn as much money as possible. | B．To teach the young to cook at home. |
| C．To create their own brand in cooking. | D．To establish Gaza’s first cooking school. |
| A．She is a lady without a sweet tooth. |
| B．She came to Smile Kitchen just to earn a living. |
| C．She has been interested in cooking since she was young. |
| D．She gave up making sponge cakes after several failures. |
| A．Set up her own business. | B．Support her family on her own. |
| C．Prepare for a chef competition. | D．Become a trainer in a cooking school. |
| A．Steady but narrow. | B．Promising and hopeful. |
| C．Uncertain but satisfying. | D．Challenging and changeable. |
【推荐2】It’s been said that good cooking is an art form. The truth is that it’s much more than that.
Recipe failures matter as much as the successes.
Of course, the best part of cooking with kids isn’t the basic skills.
| A．It is patience that really matters. |
| B．Cooking also brings science concepts to life. |
| C．In some ways, they help kids develop resilience. |
| D．It’s the memories you make together in the kitchen. |
| E．Beyond the practical skills, cooking builds character. |
| F．When using oil or fat for cooking, use as little as possible. |
| G．It’s a way to teach kids vital skills, such as critical thinking, creativity and cooperation. |
【推荐3】As a little girl, I’d sit in the kitchen and watch my mother cook, but I didn’t really get into cooking. When I graduated from college and moved lo Washington DC, I left all of my friends behind. There were no new roommates. I was on my own and felt lonely. Home-cooked meals were my best attempt at changing my condition.
So, I started calling my mom and asking for the recipes (食谱) for my favorite dishes. It turned out that my mom didn’t have any recipes. She couldn’t give me a single measurement (计量) for any dish. She grew up in the kitchen with her mom too, and my grandma shared her knowledge through oral (口头的) tradition. Then it was my turn. My mom taught me how to “measure with my heart” when cooking. I learned to cook by tasting and feeling my food. And my food was pretty good. Soon enough, everyone was asking me for the recipes. That was why Bun Bo Bae, my cooking blog, came into being in 2019.
Bun Bo Bae was a space for me to put what I learned into writing. I didn’t want all of the secret knowledge behind dishes like my mom’s noodles and my dad’s tomato soup to disappear if the oral tradition ended one day. I wanted to write down every piece of advice I was given in detail.
These days, I experiment more. I’m not as strict with myself about recreating the dishes exactly as I remember about eating them. I use seasonal food materials when I can’t find some items. My food blog and flower count grew, and so did my confidence in the kitchen.
Bun Bo Bae also increased my confidence at work and gave me a space to write about what I love. It has connected me to countless new Internet friends.
Most importantly, writing for Bun Bo Bae has taught me that celebrating my culture doesn’t have to be about perfectly recreating my parents’ tradition. It’s about mixing what I’ve been taught with my own experiences, and cooking up something entirely new.
1. Why did the author begin her home-cooked meals?| A．To lead a healthy lifestyle. | B．To get rid of her loneliness. |
| C．To try out her mother’s recipes. | D．To improve her cooking skills. |
| A．She had trouble creating new recipes. |
| B．She followed strict measurements in cooking. |
| C．She made tastier dishes than her mom and grandma. |
| D．She mastered cooking skills under her mom’s oral guidance. |
| A．To bring her family members together. |
| B．To discuss local fine foods with followers. |
| C．To keep a record of her family’s cooking tradition. |
| D．To encourage people to develop healthy eating habits. |
| A．It’s important to learn a basic living skill, |
| B．It’s necessary to share her food knowledge online. |
| C．It’s better to understand different cooking cultures. |
| D．It’s wise to connect traditional cooking methods with new ideas. |
【推荐1】Born in 1965, Shania Twain was the second of five children in her family. At the age of two, she moved with her mother and two sisters to Timmins, a town north of Toronto. When Shania was eight years old, her mother took her to many different bars, clubs and concerts to perform. In high school, Shania joined a local band, with which she often performed. After that, Shania moved to Toronto, where she continued singing.
When Shania was 21 years old, her parents were killed in a car accident. She had to take over the role of parents. Taking care of two teenage brothers and a sister was a Gurdian knot. Suddenly, she had to pay the bills, keep food on the table, and make a living. Anyway, Shania managed to pay the bills by singing here and there.
In 1991，Shania went to Nashville, the home of the country music industry. In 1993，she recorded Shania Twain, her first CD. In 1995, her next CD, The Woman in Me, sold more than ten million copies. Her third CD, Come on Over, was also popular and she had another hit song.
Shania and Robert Lange, a famous producer, got married in 1993. After finishing her 2000 world tour, she decided to make a break with performance. In August 2001，they had a lovely son, whom they named Eja. After September 11th, Shania decided to spend more time on her family and stayed at home until the fall of 2002. Her reappearance in the music world put her face on magazine covers. She also began to promote（宣传）her new CD, Up, on TV shows.
1. According to the text, Shania ________.| A．went to Timmins in 1965 | B．was born into a musical family |
| C．recorded her first CD in high school | D．began singing in public at an early age |
| A．a big business | B．a difficult task | C．a social activity | D．a simple problem |
a. She moved to Nashville.
b. She married Robert Lange.
c. She lost her parents forever.
d. She promoted Up on TV shows.
e. She recorded The Woman in Me.
| A．c, a, b, e, d | B．a, c, e, b, d | C．c, b, a, d, e | D．a, b, e, d, c |
| A．Why Shania Twain chose to be a singer. |
| B．How difficult it is to become a singer. |
| C．Shania Twain’s life experience and her road to success as a singer. |
| D．Shania Twain’s opinions on music. |
【推荐2】The city of San Francisco, California, is known as a city that loves food. There are many award-winning restaurants. San Francisco is also a city that loves dogs. So, dog owner and chef Rahmi Massarweh decided to combine his two loves into one. He has opened the first and only restaurant for dogs. The restaurant is called Dogue. The name is like the word “vogue”, which means “fashion”. It opened in September in the city’s popular Mission District.
Individual dishes cost around $30. Or, for $75 each, dogs can dine on a multi- course “bone appetite” meal. Some people are expressing their opinions about the costly menu. But Massarweh has received a lot of support from his customers. They are thankful to have a place to treat their furry friends. Recently, Dogue held three dog birthday parties at the same time.
Gledy Espinoza is the owner of Mason, an 11-year-old miniature dachshund (迷你腊肠犬). Mason enjoyed some mushroom soup with pieces of chicken. “I wanted to celebrate for him. He is so special to me. He’s my four-legged child and this is the perfect place to have a really nice celebration. We’re foodies (吃货). I guess he is too, now,” Espinoza said.
Massarweh uses costly ingredients (材料) to prepare his food. Everything he makes could be eaten safely by humans, but we probably would not like it. The dog dishes may taste flavorless to us. Dogue’s goal is to spread the idea of feeding dogs fresh, healthy, and natural food. Some research shows that natural food may be better for a dog’s stomach than the dog food that you can buy in a store.
1. What is special about Dogue in San Francisco?| A．It is the only restaurant for dogs. |
| B．It serves award-winning dishes. |
| C．It is located in the Mission District. |
| D．It is a restaurant for dog owners. |
| A．They can hardly afford the dog dishes. |
| B．They are not concerned about the health of their dogs. |
| C．They prefer to cook for their dogs at home. |
| D．They have different opinions about Dogue. |
| A．To highlight the expensive meals at Dogue. |
| B．To show a customer’s positive experience at Dogue. |
| C．To introduce a new dish at the restaurant. |
| D．To focus on older dogs as the main customers. |
| A．To make a lot of money from rich dog owners. |
| B．To provide high-end dining for San Francisco’s dogs. |
| C．To share his love for food with dogs. |
| D．To improve dogs’ health through natural ingredients. |
【推荐3】Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to make money for my schooling.
One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I silently sat beside her.
“Mum, is there love between you and Dad?” I asked in a very low voice.
With surprise in her eyes, she stopped her work for a while. Then she said, “Susan, look at this thread. It can hardly be seen, but it’s really there. It makes the quilt strong. If life is a quilt, love should be a thread. Love is inside.”
I couldn’t understand her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly got sick seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month.
After they were back, my mother helped my father walk slowly on the country road every day. They were so kind to each other and it seemed they were the happiest couple.
After two months my father still couldn’t walk by himself.
“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.
“Susan, don’t worry about me.” he said. “I just like walking with your mum. I like this kind of life.” Reading his eyes, I knew he loves my mother deeply.
Now I understand that love is just a thread in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.
1. Why are Susan’s parents busy trying to make money?| A．To send Susan to school. | B．To get to see the doctor. |
| C．To buy a strong quilt. | D．To show their love. |
| A．while her mother was sewing a quilt | B．before her father was in hospital |
| C．when she was sitting beside her mother | D．after her father was seriously sick |
| A．Susan’s father is very lazy. | B．Susan’s mother is a nurse. |
| C．Susan’s parents love each other. | D．Susan doesn’t like her father. |
| A．How to Make a Quilt Strong | B．Love is Just a Thread |
| C．Walking on the Country Road | D．A Seriously Sick Father |
【推荐1】How adversity(逆境) makes you stronger
When faced with a crisis, we find it difficult to imagine the experience will eventually lead to some type of growth.
They build self-efficacy. Self-efficacy is the confidence in your ability to overcome challenges and succeed. I once took part in a program with soldiers, where I should dance in front of hundreds of audience. When I danced, I had a panic attack and had to hang onto my colleague’s arm to make it through. What was odd was my brain’s reaction to the exercise. While it was a truly unpleasant experience, I survived.
They help you treat stress as a challenge.
| A．They help you find the good. |
| B．They can bring growth after sufferings. |
| C．People have a healthier physical response to stress. |
| D．If your world feels out of control right now, just stay relaxed. |
| E．The fact is that we can become stronger after a difficult situation. |
| F．How you think about stress matters extremely in terms of how you process it. |
| G．That made my brain think about what other tough challenges I could conquer. |
【推荐2】As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was lying on his hard, as it were armor-plated, back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his dome-like brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely. His numerous legs, which were pitifully thin compared to the rest of his body, waved helplessly before his eyes.
“What has happened to me?” he thought. It was no dream. His room, a regular human bedroom, only rather too small, lay quiet between the four familiar white walls. Above the table on which a collection of cloth samples was unpacked and spread out—Samsa was a commercial traveler—hung the picture which he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and put into a pretty golden frame. It showed a lady. Gregor’s eyes turned next to the window, and the overcast sky—one could hear rain drops beating on the window—made him quite melancholy (忧郁的). What about sleeping a little longer and forgetting all this nonsense, he thought, but it could not be done, for he was accustomed to sleep on his right side and in his present condition he could not turn himself over. However violently he forced himself towards his right side he always rolled on to his back again. He tried it at least a hundred times, shutting his eyes to keep from seeing his struggling legs, and only stopped when he began to feel in him a faint ache he had never experienced before.
He thought: “What an exhausting job I’ve picked on! ” Traveling about day in, day out. It’s much more boring work than doing the actual business in the office, and on top of that there’s the trouble of constant traveling, of worrying about train connections, the bed and irregular meals, casual acquaintances that are always new and never become intimate friends. The devil takes it all! He felt a slight itching up on his belly; slowly pushed himself on his back nearer to the top of the bed so that he could lift his head more easily; identified the itching place which was surrounded by many small white spots the nature of which he could not understand and made to touch it with a leg, but drew the leg back immediately, for the contact made a cold shiver run through him.(to be continued)
1. What might Gregor Samsa look like when he woke up?| A．A normal commercial traveler. | B．Something ridiculous. |
| C．A huge insect with thick legs. | D．A lady in the gift frame. |
| A．It was a regular room and tidy. |
| B．There was so window for him to look outside his tiny room. |
| C．Its walls were dull and pale. |
| D．There was a magazine and a pretty golden frame on the table. |
| A．Extremely frightened | B．Indifferent. | C．Relieved. | D．Unreal. |
| A．Samsa felt unsatisfied about his life before. |
| B．Samsa would rather do actual business. |
| C．Samsa couldn’t identify where was itching however he tried. |
| D．The white spots felt cold when Samsa touched them. |
【推荐3】I enjoy throwing stuff away. I’d love to go full minimalism (极简主义), but my wife and two kids do not share my dream of a house with almost nothing in it. I have tried. When the kids were little, I taught them my favorite games-“Do We Need It?” and “Put It in Its Place”-and made them play every month. Their enthusiasm never matched mine.
To be honest, my own tidying skills are not as great as I’d like. My abandoned pile is never what I want because I make up excuses for why things are useful. I consider this unhealthy. I want to be better at moving on.
So, this time I found help-the classic for people like me: The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, by Marie Kondo. Kondo’s philosophy is only to keep things you love. Can I go full Kondo? I will try. One central idea is to clean by category. You collect all clothes. Next, hold each item and ask if it brings you joy. And that’s how I find myself with all my clothes on my bedroom floor. My wife walks by and gives me a look saying I’m crazy.
Near the bottom of this chaos is my special jacket. I haven’t worn it in about 30 years. Somehow, it has survived. Now, has its time come? There is a tear just below the collar that widens as I hold it. Will I ever wear it again? Not a chance. Does it bring me joy? Actually, yes. At this moment, my daughter walks in. She asks about the jacket. I tell her the story. She thinks I should keep it. It’s unique and full of memories. She is arguing that nostalgia is the very reason.
I’m not entirely convinced by my daughter. I believe in looking ahead, not backward. Nevertheless, sometimes it’s hard to let go. So I gently place the jacket on the “keep” pile.
1. What can we learn about the author’s family members from Paragraph 1?| A．They don’t understand what the author insists on. |
| B．They completely support what the author does. |
| C．They are less passionate about full minimalism. |
| D．They are strongly opposed to full minimalism. |
| A．To learn how to categorize. |
| B．To improve his tidying skills. |
| C．To persuade his family members. |
| D．To develop a passion for minimalism. |
| A．It bears some memories. | B．It is in good condition. |
| C．He likes to wear special jackets. | D．It belongs to the “jackets” category. |
| A．The importance of categorizing skills. |
| B．An inspiration coming from a book. |
| C．The author’s efforts to go minimalism. |
| D．The changes brought by minimalism. |
