Growing up in a Southern family, big meals were the norm. Every meal for my nuclear family of four provided enough food for eight. Each Sunday, when we drove to my grandmother’s home for lunch, there was more than enough food.
When I lost my job, though, my handling of extra food suddenly hit a barrier.
But instead of cooking a lot and then simply eating the leftovers, I had a new solution that worked well with my belief in showing love through food:
Such a small act can bring large amounts of joy to anyone in these hard times. And in unfavorable situations, it’s an act that allows us to develop friendship and show love while we must, still, remain apart.
| A．Continue cooking for my family. |
| B．Bringing the extras as meals to my friends. |
| C．It was the one part of our new world I couldn’t refuse. |
| D．In the shock of the change, I cooked less for about a year. |
| E．In my adult life before unemployment, this tradition stayed with me. |
| F．Serving extra food was the way that we showed love to one another. |
| G．But doing so seemed contrary to the generosity I had been brought up to believe in. |
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【推荐1】Here are five ruffled（有褶饰边的）fashions for autumn.
Flowing Shirt
This beautiful shirt has layers of ruffles in different colors.Right now,this shirt is on sale for $39.It comes in rich colors like purple,pink and gray.This shirt can be found at anthropologie.com in sizes x-small to x-large.Note that this shirt needs to be hand washed.
Ruffled Cardigan
The ruffled cardigan from The Limited is an open style with ruffles along the front edges.The longer length looks great with jeans.What's more,the sleeves come to the elbows（手肘）.This comes in white,black and brown. Purchase it for $ 59.
Henley Shirt
This shirt is an attractive milk white color that will match with anything.The sleeves will keep you warm in the autumn.This shirt has two rows of ruffles along the collar.It comes in sizes small to x-large and costs $ 49.Purchase this at dillards.com.
Pintucked Blouse
This blouse is surprisingly beautiful.The ruffles are very pretty.Choose from off-white and black.This costs $ 49 at The Limited.It comes in sizes x-small to x-large.
Ruffled Dress
This fresh dress is great for a date night or girl's night out.The ruffle dress is strapless（无带的）,with a sweetheart neckline and ruffles on both the top and skirt.Made from silk,this dress comes in.blue,purple and black.It comes in sizes x-small to x-large and can be found at American Eagle Outfitters for $ 69.
1. What is the author's purpose by writing the passage?| A．To introduce several online shops. |
| B．To advertise her beautiful designs. |
| C．To introduce five fashions for autumn. |
| D．To tell us what clothes are in fashion this year. |
| A．dillards.com. | B．anthropologie.com. |
| C．The Limited. | D．American Eagle Outfitters. |
| A．$177. | B．$167. |
| C．$157. | D．$137. |
| A．The colors and prices. | B．The right age groups. |
| C．The makers and materials. | D．The sizes and washing instructions. |
【推荐2】Change is hard for many people to accept. However, it’s worth keeping in mind that one part of growing as a person requires you to accept that life is constantly changing.
First of all, you should understand that change is an unavoidable part of life. Before the time comes for you to accept change, learn that it is necessary for old things to go and new things to come.
Last of all, try to understand why change upsets you so much. It’s hard to change and accept it if you’re unclear why it makes you so uncomfortable or unsettled.
| A．Does that bad situation appeal to you? |
| B．You must learn to look on the bright side as well. |
| C．Think about it and you might understand it finally. |
| D．You should turn to others for help if it is necessary. |
| E．Does social change give you a feeling of uncertainty? |
| F．You might lose our jobs, lose our loved ones, or experience other life changing things. |
| G．Most of the time, the transition from the old to the new will bring you energy. |
【推荐3】A selection from the trolley
The trolley problem used to be a popular question in philosophical ethics(伦理学).It runs as follows: a trolley, or a train, is speeding down a track towards a junction(三叉路口). Some evildoer has tied five people to the track ahead, and another person to the branch line. You are standing next to a lever(操纵杆) that controls the junction. Do nothing, and the five people will be killed. Pull the lever, and only one person dies. What is the ethical course of action?
In a paper just published in Nature, a team of psychologists and computer scientists, led by Edmond Awad of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), describe a different approach.
They created a website which presents visitors with a series of choices about whom to save and whom to kill. The website proved a hit. In the end it gathered nearly 40m decisions.
The strongest preferences, expressed by respondents from all over the world, were for saving human lives over animal ones, preferring to save many rather than few and prioritising children over the old.
Iyad Rahwan, a computer scientist at MIT and one of the paper’s authors, says that many people dismiss the trolley problem as pointless as it is unlikely to arise in real life. He is unconvinced. The specific situations described by the website may hardly ever occur, he says.
| A．But all sorts of choices made by the firms producing self-driving cars will affect who lives and who dies in indirect ways. |
| B．Rather than asking philosophers for their thoughts, they decided instead to ask the public. |
| C．That seems to conflict with most people’s moral preferences. |
| D．The preference for saving women, for instance, was stronger in places with higher levels of gender equality. |
| E．There were weaker preferences for saving women over men, pedestrians over passengers in the car and for taking action rather than doing nothing. |
| F．The excitement around self-driving cars, though, has made the problem famous. |
【推荐1】Pickled (腌制的) vegetables, fish and meat preserved in salt, and bread baked in a circle with a hole in the middle (e.g. bagels), were once the foods for the poor of all backgrounds in central and eastern Europe. But it was Jewish immigrants (犹太移民) who brought these recipes to the West, particularly to America, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Bagels and pickled foods became mainstays of Jewish deli (熟食店) cuisine,which are the subject of an exhibition at the New-York Historical Society called “I’ll Have What She’s Having”. The exhibition implicitly (含蓄地) asks whether a cuisine that has been enjoyed by millions and helped define the taste of New York City continues to be lively today.
There is a distinctly sad tone to it. Though some foods exist over several decades, the number of Jewish delis in America has dropped sharply. Black-and-white pictures of long-gone people eating at long-gone places line the exhibition’s walls. After all, the Jewish deli is a product of a bygone era,shaped by immigration, discrimination and inner-city life. As immigrants’ children fit in with the locals and moved away, the deli became one of many dining choices — less a center of communal Jewish life and more a pleasant place to occasionally chat and talk about the past.
Meanwhile, deli food itself has crossed its limits. For a while, McDonald’s in Germany offered a “Grilled Texas Bagel”. That is a senseless phrase to a deli expert: a decent bagel belongs nowhere near a grill and has nothing to do with Texas. But it suggests that bagels — like pizza, hot dogs and other foods once only consumed by particular ethnicities — now come across less as specifically Jewish than as broadly American.
The most hopeful part of the exhibit is at the end: a case of menus from modern delis across the country. They were founded by young Jewish chefs determined to keep their culinary (烹饪的) traditions alive — not because discrimination left them no other way out, but because the food is delicious, inspiring, and an irreplaceable part of America’s culinary landscape.
1. What is the theme of this exhibition?| A．The history of New York. |
| B．The foods of Jewish delis. |
| C．The recipes for Jewish foods. |
| D．The Jewish communities in New York. |
| A．They cannot provide delivery service. |
| B．They have lost their original special flavor. |
| C．They don’t suit the tastes of young Jewish people. |
| D．They can bring back memories of Jewish immigrants. |
| A．Deli experts aren’t big fans of meaningless names. |
| B．People think bagels are more of an American food. |
| C．Texans aren’t very good at baking satisfactory bagels. |
| D．McDonald’s in Germany prefers American foods to Jewish ones. |
| A．Proud. | B．Worried. | C．Carefree. | D．Disappointed. |
【推荐2】Globalization has significantly influenced food consumption in most parts of world, but one country whose food has a long history of being globalized is Italy. If you walk down any main street in any major world city, you will find at least one Italian restaurant. Furthermore, Italy has seen changes in its own eating habits due to influence from other countries.
Food has always been very important for Italian families. Italians take a lot of pride in the making and preparation of food. Until recently, pastas — a basic Italian food — would have been made by people in their local area. Families would also have made the sauces to eat with the pasta at home.
Nowadays, however, Italian eating habits appear to have changed. People no longer spend so much time preparing their meals. Indeed, frozen or takeaway Italian meals have become very popular in Italy. Furthermore, dried pasta is now mass-produced and sold relatively cheaply in the last five years, according to one manufacturer.
These changes have both advantages and disadvantages. On the plus side, globalization has increased the range of food available in Italy. Italians now have much more choice in terms of what they eat. They also do not need to spend so long preparing and making food, unless of course they want to. In contrast, it can be argued that large restaurant chains are becoming increasingly powerful, resulting in the destruction of local and national specialties.
| A．There is a difference between the food that people eat in the countryside and the food people eat in big cities. |
| B．Consequently, many Italians worry that they are losing their sense of nationality, as foreign food becomes more common. |
| C．In addition, people’s opportunity to experiment with foreign food was very limited, since only pizza and pasta were available in the local town square. |
| D．Possibly the global popularity of Italian eating habits is the increasing popularity of foreign cuisine, especially Indian, Chinese and Japanese foods. |
| E．Another important change in Italian eating habits is the increasing popularity of foreign cuisine, especially Indian, Chinese and Japanese foods. |
| F．Globalization has had a significant influence on the way that Italians eat. |
【推荐3】Cultural rules determine every aspect of food consumption. Who eats together defines social units. For example, in some societies, the nuclear family is the unit that regularly eats together. The anthropologist Mary Douglas has pointed out that, for the English, the kind of meal and the kind of food that is served relate to the kinds of social links between people who are eating together. She distinguishes between regular meals, Sunday meals when relatives may come, and cocktail parties for relatives and friends. The food served symbolizes the occasion and reflects who is present. For example, only snacks are served at a cocktail party. It would be inappropriate to serve a steak or hamburgers. The distinctions among cocktails, regular meals, and special dinners mark the social boundaries between those guests who are invited for drinks, those who are invited to dinner, and those who come to a family meal. In this example, the type of food symbolizes the category of guest and with whom it is eaten.
In some New Guinea societies, the nuclear family is not the unit that eats together. The men take their meals in a men’s house, separately from their wives and children. Women prepare and eat their food in their own houses and take the husband’s portion to the men’s house. The women eat with their children in their own houses. This pattern is also widespread among Near Eastern societies.
Eating is a metaphor that is sometimes used to signify marriage. In many New Guinea societies, like that of the Lesu on the island of New Ireland in the Pacific and that of the Trobriand Islanders, marriage is symbolized by the couple’s eating together for the first time. Eating symbolizes their new status as a married couple. In U.S. society, it is just the reverse. A couple may go out to dinner on a first date.
Other cultural rules have to do with taboos against eating certain things. In some societies, members of a family group, are not allowed to eat the animal or bird that is their totemic ancestor. Since they believe themselves to be descended from that ancestor, it would be like eating that ancestor or eating themselves.
There is also an association between food prohibitions and rank, which is found in its most extreme form in the caste system of India. A caste system consists of ranked groups, each with a different economic specialization. In India, there is an association between caste and the idea of pollution. Members of highly ranked groups can be polluted by coming into contact with the bodily secretions, particularly saliva(唾液),of individuals of lower-ranked castes. Because of the fear of pollution, Brahmans and other high-ranked individuals will not share food with, not eat from the same plate as, not even accept food from an individual or from a low-ranking class.
1. According to the passage, who will NOT eat together?| A．Men and women in Near Eastern societies. |
| B．The English during regular meals. |
| C．Americans on their first date. |
| D．Newly-married people on the island of New Ireland. |
| A．favors | B．gossips | C．hatred | D．prohibitions |
| A．social relations | B．marital status | C．the type of food | D．family ties. |
| A．Different kinds of food in western countries. |
| B．Relations between food and social units. |
| C．Symbolic meanings of different kinds of food. |
| D．Food consumption in different cultures. |
