Sahana Vij, the granddaughter of Indian immigrants (移民), has always been surrounded by food. Her mother taught her to make tasty bread and French toast when she was 5. Now 18, Vij is a self-taught baker who’s sharing her recipes with the world through her new cookbook, Bake Away.
Featuring 20 of her original recipes, Bake Away has been in the works since her first year of high school. It hit the shelves on Oct. 26, 2021, and was promising to enjoy good sales. Each recipe in the cookbook is tied to a location. The first, for CPS bread, is inspired by Vij’s memory of picking fruit in her grandfather’s garden in Temescal Valley.
The University of California Irvine first year student intends to major in literary journalism and minor in environmental science, but baking is in her blood. “I want to work at newspapers or magazines and write columns, specifically about the environment. I love to write, but my dream job is to own my own bakery,” Vij says. “That’s really my passion.”
“UCI was a good fit for me because my family is around me,” Vij says. “Family is a really big part of my life — something I can depend on — and I go visit them a lot. Each Bake Away recipe comes from a different city and a different experience I’ve had with my family.”
Her favorite is the U District cake, influenced by the tea she used to share with her mother on their monthly trips to Seattle’s University District. “It’s my whole family’s favorite recipe because it just tastes so good and because we’ve been making it more as a family over the past year. It’s kind of become a family recipe.”
The profits from Bake Away will go to No Kid Hungry, a nonprofit working to end child hunger. “Growing up, my mom and my family were really involved in volunteering, and I always wanted to give back,” Vij says. “I decided to partner with No Kid Hungry, especially because the book involves food.”
1. Why does Vij love baking so much?| A．It brings her money and fame. |
| B．It is part of her nature and memories. |
| C．She wants to make her mother happy. |
| D．She tries to keep the immigrants tradition. |
| A．Was placed on the shelves. | B．Became popular. |
| C．Came into the market. | D．Ended up with failure. |
| A．Her college education. | B．Her courage to challenge. |
| C．Her sense of responsibility. | D．Her good family relationship. |
| A．Recipe for Change | B．Power of Love |
| C．Success of a Book | D．Fight for Passion |
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【推荐1】A short cooking video posted by a netizen on TikTok has recently become a popular hit on the site. Bearing the tag “Chinese food”, the video not only showed off the chief’s superb skills in making Chinese dishes, but it also got netizens abroad wanting to get a taste of China’s unique food culture.
Although the video was nothing master-level, just a rather standard homemade fried potato dish, it received more than 200, 000 likes after only three days of posting. In addition to praising the chef, commenters wondered why such a simple Chinese dish could look like a fancy cuisine that had been made through tons of effort. “Even the most basic Chinese dish needs to have three elements: color, smell and taste. For example, color not only requires a chef to have sharp eyes, but also valuable experience,” said Wang, an experienced Chinese chef in Guangzhou.
Chinese cooking is not the only type of content covered by the tag. Other popular videos under the tag include “odd food” challenges, traditional Chinese dishes and Chinese snack tasting, the latter of which has become particularly popular among young omnivore vloggers (video bloggers) living in a world of continually expanding cultural globalization.
“I have been a fan of Chinese food ever since my Chinese friend cooked me di san xian at university. I was surprised by the dish’s taste and its look, which was very different from my home food, but felt it was very familiar to me because I noticed we share similar cooking skills,” said Bianca, an Italian Asian food fan.
“I started my channel by recording my roommate tasting my cooking. These videos got likes and comments gradually. Seeing some people commenting in German or English and saying ‘I want to try it’, I felt these videos can narrow the gap between the two cultures,” said Mr. Bear, a vlogger on Bilibili who promotes Chinese cooking.
1. What does the underlined word “omnivore” in Paragraph 3 refer to?| A．people eating meat. | B．people eating diverse food. |
| C．people eating strange food. | D．people eating vegetables. |
| A．common and dear. | B．expensive and delicious. |
| C．similar and disconnected. | D．special and familiar. |
| A．He is an expert determined to become a Chinese chef. |
| B．The majority of his fans tasted the food he cooked. |
| C．His videos make a difference to cultural communication. |
| D．His roommate encouraged him to cook Chinese food. |
| A．Chinese cooking has become popular among young vloggers. |
| B．advanced technology plays a great part in modern society. |
| C．online videos can make young people internationally famous. |
| D．master-level Chinese dishes are attracting more foreign fans. |
【推荐2】Daily News—San Francisco chef Cecilia Chiang, who first changed the stereotypes about Chinese cuisine in the United States, died Wednesday. She was 100.
Chiang was the owner, chef and mastermind behind the game-changing San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin. She is widely credited with bringing real Chinese food to America and was a celebrity chef before celebrity chefs were popularized.
Chiang, who was born near Shanghai, came from an upper-class Chinese family. Although she wasn't shy about admitting her good fortune, she faced other, perhaps more hard-won obstacles. To convince the dining public that Chinese food didn't have to be Thursday's cheap take-out option, Chiang had her work cut out for her, when she moved to the Bay Area in 1959. She insisted on showing diners the refined side of Chinese food and wanted to upgrade the Chinese dining experience. To do this, she also needed to be aware of aesthetics.
The Mandarin did not serve chop suey or chow mien, two standard dishes on every Chinese restaurant in the US at the time. But this is exactly what Chiang wanted to avoid. In fact, her early encounter with Chinese food in America had left her determined to show San Francisco what Chinese food was really like.
“She deliberately and constantly supported outsiders trying to make their mark in food,” her granddaughter, Siena Chiang said. “I hope she is a signal and an inspiration to people with marginalized identities to always believe in your own worth and knowledge, and not to give into other cultures.”
1. What is the best title of the passage?| A．Celilia brought real Chinese food to America. |
| B．Celilia opened a game-changing restaurant in San Francisco. |
| C．Celilia, a great chef of Chinese cuisine, died at the age of 100. |
| D．Celilia, a chef celebrity. |
| A．Cut her work into small parts. | B．Had lots of work to do. |
| C．Reached out for help. | D．Was out of her job. |
| A．To be an aesthetician. | B．To stop offering takeout food on Thursday. |
| C．To serve chop suey or chow mien. | D．To improve the Chinese dining experience. |
| A．Celilia encouraged outsiders to value their own culture. |
| B．Celilia is a signal and an inspiration to Americans. |
| C．Celilia adjusted Chinese food according to American culture. |
| D．Celilia competed with outsiders in making their mark in food. |
【推荐3】Many people prefer eating out instead of cooking at home. A change appears to be taking place, though, and millennials are leading the way. According to one survey, more young people are starting to cook at home for three basic reasons: They can save money, eat healthy and waste less food.
Popular TV chefs are also getting millennials excited about learning some basic cooking skills. Many millennials view cooking as a form of entertainment and self-expression. They proudly post pictures of their cooking creations on Facebook or Instagram, and invite friends over to share the cooking experience.
Many millennials have also found ways to avoid wasting food. After roasting a chicken, they put the leftover bones in their freezer instead of the garbage can. Later, they use the bones to make chicken stock which is an important ingredient in many dishes.
They also hate throwing out fruit that’s too old. To avoid that situation, they bake ripe fruit like berries and bananas for 15 minutes at 175 degrees C. Then they freeze it overnight. After that, they place the fruit in plastic bags and store it their freezer for later use.
Now any millennials only eat at restaurants that have excellent food-waste policies. These servants use every part of the vegetables they buy, including their stems and roots, in dishes. They also use beef, chicken and pork bones to make their own stock.
Millennials also reduce food waste by only buying what they require. Before going to a market, they write down what they need and don’t buy anything else. They way they won’t purchase more food than they can consume.
1. What is the main subject of this article?| A．A cooking trend that has attracted millennials. |
| B．A plan that millennials have for donating food. |
| C．A novel cooking technique that millennials like. |
| D．A food production system favored by millennials. |
| A．Mix it with other ingredients in a bowl. |
| B．Carefully remove the skin and seeds from it. |
| C．Use a sharp knife to chop it up into pieces. |
| D．Put it in an oven at the proper temperature. |
| A．When they dine out together |
| B．Whey they vote for candidates |
| C．When they choose an employer |
| D．When they plant a new garden |
| A．They select small cans and packages. |
| B．They prepare a practical shopping list. |
| C．They leave their credit cards at home. |
| D．They weigh produce before buying it. |
【推荐1】The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards began its life modestly in 2015 as a photographic competition. And this year is no exception. The recently announced winners and finalists of the 2021 competition include a visibly uncomfortable monkey, three gossiping raccoons (浣熊), a joyful bird reunion, a fish who jumps high and an all-powerful prairie dog (土拨鼠).
A group of judges sorts through thousands of submissions from expert and inexperienced photographers alike, and determines one winner for each of the several groups- except for the peoples’ choice award, which is left up to members of the public.
This year’s top prize goes to Ken Jensen. His photo, taken in Yunnan, China, shows a golden silk monkey in a rather uncomfortable position with an appropriately surprised look on its face. The caption (图片配文) reads: “This is actually a show of aggression however in the position that the monkey is in it looks quite painful!” Another crowd favorite shows a pigeon with a flyaway yellow leaf covering its entire face, captioned: “I guess summer’s over.” The shot was taken by John Speirs when fruits and crops became ready to eat and were picked, and leaves fell.
The contest is more than just a delight to see. “The Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards was born from the need for a wildlife photography competition that was light-hearted, modest and importantly, could make a difference to animals and our natural world,” reads its website. “Its founders realised that laughter was a uniquely effective tool to engage audiences of all ages and cultures with images of creatures they may never be able to see for themselves - and that the world could lose forever.”
Organizers Tom Sullam and Michelle Wood say they also donate 10% of their total net revenue to conservation organizations that protect endangered wildlife. This year, proceeds are going in Borneo.
Nature is healing, but it still has a long way to go.
1. What is the first paragraph mainly about?| A．An announcement of awarded works. | B．The birth of the competition. |
| C．An introduction to the event. | D．A group of abnormal animals. |
| A．There were no leaves on the trees. | B．The leaf covering its face was yellow. |
| C．Harvest showed the arrival of autumn. | D．Summer never seemed this cold. |
| A．make viewers laugh. | B．hold a photographic competition. |
| C．raise awareness of wildlife conservation. | D．get people to see animals in a new way. |
| A．Positive. | B．Concerned. | C．Uncaring. | D．Tolerant. |
【推荐2】An Indian man recently shocked the airport staff in Abu Dhabi, because his passport showed he was born in 1896, which would make him 123, the oldest man to have ever lived.
Swami Sivananda’s passport shows him to be a year older than France’s Jeanne Louise Calment, who holds the Guinness World Record for the oldest person in history —122— but the problem is that the only evidence he has comes from an old temple register. Furthermore, he looks decades younger than his alleged age and has good health. He’s been trying to have his name included in the Guinness Book of Records for three years, but he has been having trouble proving his age.
Allegedly born on August 8, 1896, in Behala, then a village, Sivananda says he lost both his parents when he was only four, and his sister, who used to beg for food with him, two years later. His relatives handed him over to a guru (宗教教师), who brought him to the city of Nadadwip. Later, he settled in Varanasi. Sadly, there was no formal record of his age in these places and Swami Sivananda can only rely on a temple register to prove that he really is 123 years old.
“I lead a simple and regular life. I eat very simply — boiled food without oil, rice and boiled soup. I avoid taking milk or meat because I think these are fancy. In my childhood I slept many days on an empty stomach,” said Sivananda. “I believe in eating simply, living modestly and being merciful. I feel good when I have tried my best to help those in need.”
1. What shocked the airport staff in Abu Dhabi?| A．Sivananda has been trying to break the Guinness Record. |
| B．Sivananda enjoys youthful appearance and good health. |
| C．Sivananda is the oldest man according to his passport. |
| D．Sivananda has been keeping a rare temple register. |
| A．Actual. | B．So-called. |
| C．Recognized | D．Imaginary. |
| A．To prove Sivananda really is 123 years old. |
| B．To describe Sivananda’s life when he was young. |
| C．To indicate that Sivananda has experienced much. |
| D．To explain Sivananda has trouble proving his age. |
| A．He wants to explain the benefits of living simply. |
| B．He wants to show how poor his childhood was. |
| C．He intended to explain how he lives a long life. |
| D．He intended to show he is a kind-hearted man. |
【推荐3】It is difficult to imagine how an eight-year-old boy who was scared of heights became an astronaut who orbited the Earth 14 times, traveling more than 600,000 km during his 21-hour space voyage. This fear, apparently, did not hold Yang Liwei back from becoming China's first man in space on October 15, 2003.His pioneering Journey aboard the Shenzhou-5 spacecraft made China the third country in the world, after the Soviet Union and the United States, to carry out a manned Space mission.
Born in 1965 in Liaoning province,Yang joined the People's Liberation Army in 1983 and graduated from the PLA Aviation College four years later. In 1998, he was selected as a member of China's first team of astronauts. Notching up 1350 flying hours as a fighter pilot, he carried out more than 200 tasks during his spaceflight.
Yang recalled the centrifuge(离心机)training as particularly stressful. "The machine has a red button in case you can't stand it any longer. But as far as I recall, no one has ever pushed the button," he said. Yang added that the underwater training was so exhausting that astronauts didn't even have the strength to hold a pair of chopsticks after emerging from the water.
After being crowned a "Space Hero", Yang said most people who contributed to China's first manned space flight received no public recognition but the achievement belonged to all of them.
For a long time afterward, Yang worked with research personnel on the records of his spaceflight, described his physical and mental condition, and provided suggestions. Thanks to his feedback, over 100 improvements were made to the manned Shenzhou-6 and Shenzhou-7 flights. The veteran astronaut, who was awarded the UNESCO Medal on Space Science in 2017, also played an important role in the planning of China's later spaceflights.
1. What can we infer from paragraph 1?| A．Yang Liwei used to be afraid of going to high places. |
| B．Yang Liwei had travelled more than 600,000 km by the age of 21. |
| C．Yang Liwei had imagined becoming an astronaut when he was eight. |
| D．Yang Liwei was the third person to carry out a manned space mission. |
| A．The centrifuge training. |
| B．The underwater training. |
| C．Notching up 1350 flying hours. |
| D．The emerging from the water. |
| A．School zone. |
| B．Distinguished figures. |
| C．Geographic information. |
| D．Government organizations. |
【推荐1】I learned chess when I was young. By the age of eight I was an ordinary child, but through chess I knew the excitement of playing in the same primary school team as my older brother three years ahead, and soon afterwards I experienced the pride of representing my city. My love for chess offered periodic escape from my ordinary life.
By the time I was 10 my family had fallen apart. And I came to live with my grandfather. The family’s chess set was laid in the bay window. That space was soon surrounded by games collections, endgame strategy books and books on opening theory. I played out book contents on the board, typically with the left hand holding the book open, the right hand moving the pieces, and the eyes moving between book and board, as if watching a very slow tennis match of my own staging. That square metre of space changed my life. That was the place where I “got good”.
Chess achievement gave me intellectual confidence that I might otherwise not have had. Many teachers had long told me, “If you are good at chess you should be able to do this.” Rejecting this idea for years, mostly because it meant I had to try harder yet at 15， I decided they might be right after all. I began to love reading and learning and thinking and writing and speaking. I’d go on to Oxford, Harvard and a PhD, but there was nothing unavoidable about this development. I was not a particularly promising pupil and could have been at a loss, doing badly at school or even worse.
Aldous Huxley famously wrote that “experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you”. Our life experience is not one event after another but a series of opportunities for us to grow. With chess and then exam success, I decided to be less defined by my circumstances (境遇) and more capable of shaping them.
1. What was the author proud of?| A．Learning chess at an early age. |
| B．Beating his brother in chess. |
| C．Escaping from ordinary life. |
| D．Playing chess for the city. |
| A．He lost himself in chess. |
| B．He started watching tennis matches. |
| C．He took every chance to read. |
| D．He practiced chess with his grandfather. |
| A．I seldom kept my word. |
| B．I was an average student. |
| C．I accepted my weaknesses. |
| D．I refused to go to college. |
| A．Metaphor. |
| B．Quote. |
| C．Repetition. |
| D．Personification. |
【推荐2】Amanda Gorman, a 22-year-old poet, recited her poem The Hill We Climb at the recent Presidential Inauguration (就职) Ceremony. Her words and performance were wonderful and were admired across the world. But what is even more wonderful is the story of how Amanda arrived at this moment and the lessons she offers other kids around the world.
Amanda was raised by a single mother, Joan Wicks, in Los Angeles. There was very limited television watching in their house. Encouraged by her mother, who was a teacher, Amanda fell in love with reading and writing. She gained confidence in these areas. Her passion for poetry started when she was about 8 years old.
But despite her interests and talents, she had some obstacles. Amanda has a listening processing disorder and is very sensitive to sound. She also had a speech disorder during childhood. This caused her to participate in speech treatment which helped her to turn her obstacles into gifts and strengths. As she told The Harvard Gazette in 2018, “I always saw it as a strength because since I was experiencing these obstacles in terms of my listening and speech skills, I became really good at reading and writing.”
Amanda started to dream of becoming president when she was in 6th grade. As Amanda became more confident, she became more driven to transform the world for good. She went on to earn a degree at Harvard University. And then, Amanda became the world’s first Youth Poet Laureate (获奖者) in history!
While Amanda looked calm, cool, and collected at the inauguration, she admits she is always nervous, like many of us, about public speaking. To ease this, she developed a spell that she recites to give herself confidence in moments of doubt, “I am the daughter of black writers. We are descendants (子孙) of freedom fighters who broke through chains and changed the world.”
1. What do we know about Amanda Gorman?| A．She took to reading and writing thanks to her teacher. |
| B．She published her first poem at the age of 8. |
| C．She read a poem at a presidential inauguration. |
| D．She became the first Youth Poet Laureate at high school. |
| A．Worries . | B．Changes. | C．Strengths. | D．Disabilities. |
| A．By seeking support from some black writers. |
| B．By practicing the speech context repeatedly. |
| C．By reciting a special sentence to herself. |
| D．By talking to freedom fighters before the speech. |
| A．To share a funny story. | B．To educate disabled kids. |
| C．To record a wonderful moment. | D．To encourage more children. |
【推荐3】I was going to Paris, which I’d always wanted to see. But now I was frightened to travel alone. I arrived at the train station in Paris. I hadn’t spoken my college French for twenty years. On my first metro ride, I came across an incompetent (不胜任的) thief. I just stared at him, and he stopped his hand from my purse and disappeared into the crowd. Somewhere in this confusing city was my hotel hidden, but the directions suddenly weren’t easy to find. When I finally found the hotel, my heart was beating heavily, and I was sweating like a basketball player. I couldn’t stay. Could I? The wallpaper looked like it had been through a fire. The bathroom was downstairs, and the window looked out onto the brick wall of another building. Welcome to Paris. I sincerely wanted to die. I missed my friends. I was entering my third week away from home and my kids, and I had arrived in the most romantic city in the world, alone, lonely and frightened.
The most important thing I did in Paris happened at that moment. I knew that if I didn’t go out, right then, and find a place to have dinner, I would hide in this small room my entire time in Paris. I might never learn to enjoy the world as a single individual. So I went out. Evening in Paris was light and pleasant. I walked along a path, listening to birds sing, watching children float toy boats in a huge fountain. No one seemed to be in a hurry. Paris was beautiful. And I was here alone and suddenly not lonely. My sense of accomplishment overcoming my fear and weakness had left me feeling free. I wore out two pairs of shoes during my week’s stay in Paris. I did everything there was to do, and it was the greatest week of my European vacation. I returned home, becoming a believer in the power of traveling alone. Now when I meet difficulties I just say to myself, “If I can go to Paris, I can go anywhere.”
1. What happened on my first metro ride?| A．I came across a skillful thief. |
| B．I bravely caught a thief trying to steal. |
| C．The thief successfully stole my purse. |
| D．I scared away a thief trying to steal. |
| A．had just gone through a big fire |
| B．was in very poor conditions |
| C．had a good sight through the window |
| D．was very small and untidy |
| A．relaxed | B．rushed | C．anxious | D．aggressive |
| A．the power of being independent |
| B．the power of feeling free |
| C．the power of overcoming difficulties |
| D．the power of becoming optimistic |
