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A. served        B. spares        C. yields        D. practically        E. consumed        F. reminds        G. tosses H. strikingly       I. stubbornly        J. desired        K. flavors

Yunnan Province, covering an area of 394,000 square kilometers, combines unique ethnic cultures, magnificent mountain scenery, rainforest, tea plantations, ancient towns and delicious food. Kunming, Dali, Lijiang and Shangri-La are always on the bucket list to those who haven’t been to Yunnan before.

In the courtyard of her restaurant in Xishuangbanna, Su Ying is preparing to give me a cooking lesson. But she has no pots and pans. Instead, she is going to cook the food in banana leaves and tubes of fresh bamboo on a small fire under an iron tripod in a corner of the yard.

Su    1    a mixture of wild vegetables with lemongrass and chili and wraps them up in banana leaves. She seasons sliced beef with chili herbs and spices and puts it into a tube of freshly cut bamboo. Another tube is filled with a more exotic delicacy: live bamboo worms, which she mixes with herbs and spices. Su then thrusts the tubes into the fire.

Even to many Chinese, Yunnan seems exotic. Its remoteness     2    it much of the overdevelopment and pollution. The province is a global hotspot of biodiversity and boasts a    3    wide range of local ingredients. Most famously, the summer mushroom season     4    some 300 varieties of edible(可食用的) fungi, including delicacies such as savory matsutake(松茸). There are countless wild plants and plenty of bugs and grubs.

On my trips to the province over the years I have dined on toasted barley flour and     5    cups of yak butter tea (酥油茶) in a town now known as Shangri-la. In the north-east of the province I gorged on (狼吞虎咽) spicy hotpots. Even farther north I visited the center of ham production in Xuanwei, where I tasted delicate soups and stews. Here in Xishuangbanna. I was tasting the sour and hot     6    and fresh herbs of the tropical south.

No one restaurant or chef could represent Yunnan. There is no single overarching Yunnan cuisine, but a selection of overlapping ones. And more than anywhere else in China, delicacies     7    on table in Yunnan use a large proportion of the ingredients that are     8    local and unavailable elsewhere. In an age when people can sample delicacies from     9    anywhere in the world without even having to leave home, Yunnan     10    us that for a real taste of local culinary culture, sometimes you just have to go to the source.

【推荐2】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. primarily B. beneficial C. set   D. luxury   E. virtually F. fetch   G. crown   H. diplomacy I. touch   J. appealing   K. fascinating

Kweichow Moutai, the company that makes the eponymous (同名的) liquor, is China’s most valuable firm outside of technology. Globally, its market cap has surpassed Coca-Cola, which had long held the     1     as the world’s largest beverage maker.

Apart from the Chinese diaspora (移民社区), however, Moutai is still     2     unknown overseas. Almost all — about 97% — of its sales come from China alone, according to its financial reports.

So how is a company that sells its products     3     in just one country now worth more than some longstanding global corporations? And can Kweichow Moutai succeed in     4     to non-Chinese consumers?

Moutai is named after Maotai, a picturesque small town in the southwestern Chinese province of Guizhou. This is where the company says its baijiu — distilled (蒸馏) from fermented (发酵的) sorghum and rice — gets the magic     5    .

According to the Moutai Museum, environmental factors, such as the town’s climate and seasonal changes in the water of the local river, help give the liquor its unique taste and is     6     to the production process.

Known as the favorite tipple of Mao Zedong, founder of Communist China, and as the ‘drink of     7    ,’ it was famously used to welcome former US President Richard Nixon on his historic trip to China in 1972, and again in 2013 when Chinese President Xi Jinping met with his US counterpart, Barack Obama, in California.

Being part of so many major public events in China ‘has really     8     the brand in the national consciousness,’ said Cavender, the managing director of China Market Research Group.

Today, the brand is seen more as a     9     status symbol. Some customers buy it not to drink, but to keep as investments. Limited-edition cases are collected and showcased by international auction houses, like Christie’s, which says that some bottles can     10     more than $40,000 each.

“It’s also been a tremendous advantage during an economically tough year: wealthy consumers who are spending less on travel may splurge more on liquor,” Cavender said.

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A. consequently     B. exception     C. fixed     D. grab     E. inevitably     F. long G. parting     H. senior     I. sleepy     J. stretch     K. stuffed

Trips to my hometown of Boyertown in eastern Pennsylvania usually involve any or all of the following: really good hotdogs, ring sausage and perhaps, as a(n)     1     gift, chocolate the size of a football.

These are the tastes of my hometown, the foods that were part of my early childhood which later became the foods I     2     for whenever I go back to visit. They connect me to another time in my life, bringing back memories of whom I was with and what I was doing when eating it.

A recent trip back was no     3    . This time, however, I chose something I had not had in more than 25 years. There is a place in town called “The Grill Shop” that serves only breakfast and lunch. It has been around for as long as I can remember. It is the size of a shoebox (小平房), with five stools at the counter and a couple of booths along the wall. A flat-top grill is     4     into the front of the space and faces the street.

From that grill come the tastiest hotdogs, which were topped with chili, onions and mustard. They come wrapped in white paper and     5     into brown paper bags, the sturdiness (牢固) of which gets tested as the chili and mustard     6     seep out (渗出) before you can finish them.

It is the best $1.75 you will ever spend. I got two, because one is a lonely number. One bite in and I was ten years old again, going there with my grandmother during summer vacations. We would get hotdogs to go and take them back to her kitchen. My grandfather would sometimes come home for lunch.

Or, we would stay there if we were lucky enough to     7     a booth. A short lunch would     8     into an hour, since my grandmother knew almost everyone in town.

Mostly,     9     Boyertown looks much like it did when I lived there. I took a walk past my old house, which looks the same, although the abandoned factory had been replaced by a(n)     10     living facility and parking lots. The Grill Shop survives, however, and for that I am thankful.

【推荐1】Directions: Complete the following passage by using the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. potential        B. effectiveness        C. temperature       D. struggle          E. fit             F. normally G. constantly       H. neutralizer            I. store                 J. smelly             K. date

Does baking soda in the refrigerator really work?

Yes, it does. And it’s also really simple to use. You don’t need to mix up any funny mixtures or combine it with any other eco-friendly cleaning products. You simply    1     an open box of baking soda in the fridge and replace it about every three months or so. If you find it’s losing its    2     more quickly, you may need to replace it more often, perhaps once per month.

A simple trick to remember when to replace the baking soda in your fridge is to    3     the box when you put it in there. If you’re old school, you can just use your nose and swap out the baking soda when your fridge begins to stink (发臭).

Also note that while baking soda is a very effective smell    4     in your fridge, it won’t thoroughly eliminate every single smell in there. If you’ve stored open bowls of raw fish or pickled onions in there all week, even the biggest box of baking soda will     5     to absorb the smells.

Whether you’re flush with fridge-organization ideas or prefer to throw things anywhere they’ll     6    , be sure to make room for baking soda. A box of baking soda in the fridge will have a positive effect regardless of where you put it, but to maximize its smell-absorbing    7    , it’s best to store it closest to fetid (臭的)foods.

If your fridge is large or if you tend to keep a lot of    8     foods in there, you may want to keep a box(or bowl)of baking soda on each shelf in the fridge. If you find yourself    9     replacing the baking soda in your fridge and throwing out spoiled food on a regular basis, you may also want to check what     10     a refrigerator should be. If your foods aren’t staying fresh for long, the fridge may not be keeping them cold enough.

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A. demands        B. amateur        C. undimmed        D. compares       E. spotted        F. hits G. spoiled            H. estimates       I. deliberate          J. lacks             K. criticized

Wikipedia (维基百科) is a Web-based, free-content encyclopedia written collaboratively by volunteers and sponsored by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its purpose is to create and distribute a free international encyclopedia in as many languages as possible. Wikipedia is the most popular reference site on the internet, receiving tens of millions of     1     each day.

On January 15^th Wikipedia celebrated its 20^th anniversary.

Like most Utopian thinking, the idea of a(n)     2     encyclopedia was, for many years, treated as a bit of a joke. Even now, after numerous academic studies had highlighted its reliability, Wikipedia still     3     the gravity and authority of older encyclopedias like the Encyclopedia Britannica, which are written by paid academic experts.

Wikipedia may not have conquered its doubters in theory, but it has triumphed (获胜) in practice. With over 20bn page views a month, it has become the standard reference work for anyone with an internet connection. As social media sites are     4     for censorship (审查制度), “fake news” and disinformation, its reputation is higher than ever.

One explanation may be     5     decisions. Wikipedia     6     well with other reference works when it comes to honest mistakes. Other reasons are structural. The site’s open nature and its popularity help ensure that errors in well-read articles are usually     7     and fixed quickly.

Wikipedia’s not-for-profit structure means it can focus on the interests of readers and editors without having to consider the     8     of advertisers. The site is also unusual in that it is run by humans, not algorithms (算法).

Katherine Maher, the Wikimedia Foundation’s executive director and CEO,     9     around 80% of Wikipedia’s editors are male, and skewed (偏向) towards North America and Europe. Changing that, she says, is vital to the health of a project whose idealism remains     10     . “Our vision is a world where every single human being can share in all knowledge,” she says.