【推荐1】Cecilia Chiang died on Wednesday at her home in San Francisco. She was 100. Her San Francisco restaurant, the Mandarin, __________American diners in the 1960s to the richness and________of authentic Chinese cuisine(菜系).

Ms. Chiang was born in a__________family. When she was little, children were not allowed in the _________, but she paid close attention on trips to the __________ markets with her mother and listened carefully as__________ instructions were given to the cooks. After her parents died, she __________the family business in her teens.

After the Japanese occupied Beijing in 1939, she was__________to join relatives in Chongqing, where she married Chiang Liang, a professor.

Ms. Chiang sailed to San Francisco in 1960 to help her sister. There she met two women who wanted to__________ a restaurant that __________Chinese diets. Later, when the two women __________, Ms. Chiang decided to open a restaurant herself. The early days were __________ . But little by little, customers came__________for hot and sour soup and pan-fried potstickers. One evening, Herb Caen, the popular columnist(专栏作家)for The Chronicle, __________at the restaurant. In a __________column, Herb Caen__________it “a little hole-in-the wall” that was offering “some of the best Chinese food east of the Pacific.”

Overnight the __________filled. The Mandarin was on its way. In 1968, Ms. Chiang moved the restaurant to __________quarters, where she could__________300 diners. “I think I__________what average people know about Chinese food,” Ms. Chiang told The Chronicle in 2007, “They didn’t know China was such a big country.”

【推荐2】There are too many fat people in America, so many Americans are fighting against overweight. But the_______thing is that the French, who consume rich food,_______to stay thin. Now a_______by Cornell University suggests_______life style and decisions about eating may affect weight. Researchers concluded that the French tend to stop eating when they feel_______. However, Americans tend to stop when their   _______are empty or their favorite TV show is over.

According to Dr. Joseph Mercola, health expert, the French see eating_______an important part of their life style. They enjoy food and therefore spend a_______time at the table, while Americans see eating as_______to be squeezed between the other daily activities. Mercola believes Americans________the ability to sense when they are actually full. So they keep eating long after the French would have stopped. In addition, he points out that Americans drive to huge supermarkets to buy canned and________foods for the week. The French,________tend to shop daily, walking to small shops and farmers' markets where they have a________of fresh fruits, vegetables, and eggs as well as high-quality meats for each meal.

In spite of all these differences, evidence shows that recent life style________may be affecting French eating habits. Today the rate of obesity(肥胖)—or extreme overweight—among adults, is only 6%. However, as American fast food gains________and the young reject older traditions, the obesity rate among French children has reached 17%—and is growing.

【推荐3】In some countries，people eat rice every day._____ they eat it two or three times a day，for breakfast，lunch and supper.They can _____ it，fry (煎) it or _____ it into rice noodles.They usually eat it _____ meat，fish and vegetables.

Some people do not eat some kind of   _____   .Muslims，for example，do not eat pork，and Hindus do not eat beef.

The Japanese eat a lot of fish.Japan is an island and its _____ go all over the Pacific looking for fish to   _____.The Japanese sometimes eat uncooked fish，and they also eat a lot of rice.

In _____ such as Britain，Australia and the United States，the most important food is _____ or potatoes.People there usually make their bread from wheat flour.They ______ potatoes in different ways.They can boil them，fry them and roast(烤)them.

In Africa，maize (玉米) is the most important food.______ rice and wheat，maize is a kind of cereal (谷物).African people make the maize ______ flour.From this flour they make ______ kinds of bread and cakes.Many Africans are very ______ and they can’t afford to eat much ______ with their cereal.

Cereal is a very important kind of food ______ we also need plenty of vegetables and lots of fresh ______.

Some people eat ______ fruit and vegetables.They do not eat meat or fish or ______ that comes from animals.They eat only food from ______.Some people say that food from plants is better for us than meat.

【推荐1】I run a hotel in London. My knowledge on volcano (火山) is from my son's science textbook, which says “volcanic ash is formed during explosive volcanic eruptions (喷发) when dissolved gases escape ______ into the atmosphere”. During the days with the terrible ash cloud which spread Europe from Iceland in May, 2010, I was ______ to a London radio station called LBC. People called in ______ their stories of trouble. Some had missed ______ for holidays, and some couldn't get home following the volcanic eruption.

The story that most ______ me was a call from Peter, who had just gotten ______ the previous weekend to Maz. They had planned to ______ their honeymoon to the Dominican Republic but could not ______ the ash cloud. When James O'Brien, the radio presenter, asked if he was unhappy, Peter said: “Not at all. I've married the ______ girl in the world whom I love, so...no...”

“I'm not ______ at all.” Both the presenter and I were so impressed by the beautiful______.

A little later, after receiving many cancellations(取消预订), an idea ______ into my mind and I called LBC. I spoke to the producer of the show and asked if she could keep ______ with Peter to offer him and his wife a room for the weekend at my hotel ______. She later ______ to say Peter and Maz were delighted and would love to take up the ______. The producer asked if I would like to_______offer it to them on the radio show, but I said no as I didn't want it ______ to the public.

So, two days later, Peter and Maz arrived at the hotel and ______. I was so pleased to have made a bad situation better for a young couple. Nobody could ever imagine how ______ I was with myself.

【推荐2】I was somewhere in Utah, trying to take a ride. It was getting dark and beginning to_________. I didn't have many clothes to protect me from the snowstorm. I'd_________in Vietnam and come home to see my dad in Minnesota. Vietnam had left me bad_________. I was in an artillery unit (炮兵部队）. Once, we accidentally hit a South Vietnamese militiaman. He died alongside his pregnant wife. I tried to_________the horrible memories with alcohol.

I'd been walking all day without_________anything. It was getting colder and I was starving to death. _______, a truck stopped before me and a voice said, "Hi! Where're you heading?” The driver was rough-looking. _______, his voice put me right at ease.

“Minnesota,” I said.

“No_________. I can take you 50 miles and then I have to turn south," he said.

After I got on the truck, he said, "I used to be in your_________. I once served in South Korea. One day I was driving drunk and__________someone. The guy lived, but he was disabled. That horrible__________made me take a long, hard look at myself." His story__________me. It seemed as if he had lived my life and was telling me I could__________.   

The driver's__________was in a small town. He__________me to take some money for a bus ticket to Minnesota. I got off and watched the truck run away until it__________into the snowy darkness.

That__________was the turning point for me. I ________drinking, went to college, found work and got married. Through the years, anytime I've felt__________, I think of that trucker. His words__________me and made me believe that great things can happen if we have a try.

【推荐3】Like everybody else, I was addicted to my devices (电子设备). When realizing its ________, I decided to make “I’m doing Tech-Free Sundays (无科技周日) now!” I ________ my mother the night before my no-tech ________ started. She said, “So are you ________ all devices?” I explained carefully. “No: computer, phone, iPad. No: email, Twitter, Instagram.”

But the next morning, I failed. The problem was my work: I needed to meet a(n) ________. I thought I could only use the computer for work, and wouldn’t check Twitter. I didn’t check at first, but then I did. Although I only checked briefly, just to ________ I didn’t miss the important information, the spell (咒语) was broken.

But the ________ thing about Sundays is that we can always have another one. The next week, I changed my ________ : no tech at all. This time, I made a ________ of everything I needed to finish over the weekend, and finished all the parts that require technology. And then I put my phone down, and when I woke up on Tech-Free Sunday, I did not ________ it up again.

That day, I finished a book—one with paper! Do you know how great it is to read a paper book? It is a(n) ________, like petting a literary (文学的) cat. ________, the trouble came when I went to meet a friend. I was late, but had no way to tell her ________ my phone was at home.

Was I relaxed on such a Sunday? Yes, I was. I felt a sense of ________ over my life. But because life is a learning process, the next weekend, I told everyone who might need to ________ with me that I would not be reachable (可联系到的) on Sunday.