English teenagers will receive cooking lessons in schools. The idea is to encourage healthy eating to solve the problem that many people are overweight. Also, it worries people that basic cooking and food preparation skills are being lost because parents use too much pre-prepared fast food.
Cooking was once regarded as an important part of education in England---even if it was mainly for girls. In recent years cooking has become less important in schools. But the rising level of obesity has led to rethink about the food that children are given and the skills they should be taught.
“What we want is to teach young people how to do basic, simple meals, which they can use now at home and then in their life,” said Ed Balls, an education expert.
The new lessons will start in September, but some schools without kitchens will be given a longer time to prepare. Also, there may be a shortage of teachers with the right skills, since schools have been teaching food technology rather than practical cooking. Besides, the lessons for hand-on cooking will only be one hour a week for one term. But the well-known cookery writer, Pru Leith, believe it will be worth it.
“If we’d done this thirty years ago we might not have to face the problem about obesity and lack of knowledge about food and so on. Every child should know how to cook, not just so that they’ll be healthy, but because it’s a life skill which is a real pleasure.”
The renewed interest in cooking is an effort to reduce the obesity rate, which is almost the highest in Europe, and according to the government, half of all British people will be obese in 25 years if present trends are not halted.
1. The passage mainly talks about .| A．the reason for obesity | B．the lost cooking skills |
| C．the healthy eating | D．the cooking classes |
| A．To encourage teenagers to eat healthy food. |
| B．To reduce the country’s increasing obesity rate. |
| C．To stop parents from turning to pre-prepared fast food. |
| D．To prevent basic cooking and food preparation skills from being lost. |
| A．All of them will become good cooks in their later life. |
| B．Students will be healthy and enjoy the pleasure of such a life skill as well. |
| C．Students will be able to make food experiments with the knowledge and skills. |
| D．Students will be able to control the level of obesity in the whole country. |
| A．continued | B．stopped | C．discussed | D．kept |
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Growing up in San Francisco, Grace Young used to watch her father shop daily in Chinatown for whatever he needed to make traditional Chinese meals at home. As an award-winning cookbook author, Ms. Young, now 66, has spent decades shopping the same way in New York’s Chinatown.
Ms. Young developed a passion for cooking at an early age. At 13, she started to sit in on cooking classes. After college, Ms. Young moved to New York and worked in a book-packaging company. In her 30s, she realized that while she had helped create more than 40 cookbooks, she didn’t know how to make the dishes that tasted of home. “I knew if I recorded all of my parents’ recipes, it would be a great gift that I could give my family and the next generation.” she says.
Yet what began as a recipe book became a kind of memoir. Talking about food encouraged her parents to finally open up about their past, like the fact that her father had owned a Chinatown restaurant in the 1940s. “It was really an amazing way to learn not only my family’s recipes, but also my family’s story. “she says. The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen (1999) launched Ms. Young’s work in preserving and sustaining Chinese culinary (烹饪的)traditions.
Ms. Young has also devoted herself to supporting the restaurants in Chinatown. Since early 2020, Ms. Young has raised money to buy meals from Chinatown restaurants and deliver them to those in need. This year, instead of cooking at home for her husband and friends, she celebrated the Chinese New Year with various dishes from local restaurants in Chinatown. “If these restaurants don’t survive, Chinese culinary traditions in our city won’t survive.” she says.
1. What is Ms. Young known as?(no more than 5 words)【推荐2】Summer is in full swing, and as the temperature rises our food choices cool down. During the hot days, hot dishes just do not taste as appetizing as they normally do. Fortunately, there are many foods that taste just as good, and even better, when eaten cold.
In recent years, many different kinds of cold noodles have appeared on Chinese menus, including those from foreign countries. They are widely available in restaurants. They are also easy to cook and delicious when eaten straight out of the fridge. Let’s take a look at the options!
Sichuan spicy cold noodles. A popular appetizer on Chinese tables, especially in Sichuan. The tongue-numbing noodles are pungent, richly sauced and mouth-watering. It’s one of the best foods to wake up a sleepy stomach in summer.
Shanghai cold noodles. Shanghai cold noodles are much milder in taste. While the noodles are cooled, seasonings, such as peanut butter and vinegar, are added. Toppings usually come in many varieties, served in small dishes.
Naengmyeon. Naengmyeon means “cold noodles” in English, and refers to a dish made of long, thin buckwheat noodles and served cold with half an egg and vegetables. The dish is widely available in Korean restaurants.
Japanese cold noodles. Soba is the Japanese name for buckwheat. Cold soba noodles are enjoyed for breakfast, lunch and dinner in Japan. Actually, this is one of those dishes that are perfect anywhere on a hot summer’s day.
Ital an cold noodles. Cold pasta is less heavy and tastes less greasy（油腻的）than the regular hot dish. You can go light on the sauce and dressings without making the taste less pleasant. Pasta is also easy to cook, and tastes good straight out of the fridge.
1. What do the noodles mentioned in the passage have in common?| A．They are all tasty food. | B．They are all frozen food. |
| C．They don’t cost you much. | D．They are available everywhere. |
| A．Naengmyeon. | B．Italian cold noodles. |
| C．Shanghai cold noodles. | D．Japanese cold noodles. |
| A．It is popular in Japan. |
| B．You can eat it only in a restaurant. |
| C．It doesn’t take much time to cook. |
| D．It tastes more greasy than hot noodles. |
| A．Five most delicious foods in the world. |
| B．Five popular cooled foods in hot days. |
| C．Different countries have different foods. |
| D．Cooled noodles are the best food in hot days. |
【推荐3】If you like ordering pizza from your local pizzeria, you’ll love making it at home. No pizza will ever taste as fresh as it does when you eat it straight from your own oven.
Preheat the oven to 400℉ (204℃). The oven should be piping hot before you start cooking the pizza.
Prepare the crust (酥皮).
Spread pizza sauce (果酱) on the crust.
Add seasonings (佐料). Layer your favorite seasonings over the sauce. Add as many or few seasonings as you want. Put the heavier seasonings, like onions, chicken or sausage, on the bottom layer, and add lighter seasonings, like spinach leaves or peppers, on the top layer.
Bake the pizza.
| A．Place the pizza in the oven. |
| B．But where can we get fresh pizza like this? |
| C．Remove the unbaked crust from the packaging. |
| D．Fry the paste and tomatoes together over low heat. |
| E．However, how do we make hot, fresh pizza in a fast way? |
| F．How much pizza sauce you add is purely a matter of personal preference. |
| G．Continue until your pizza is loaded with the amount of seasonings you like. |
