IRELAND’S NUMBER ONE FOOD MAGAZINE Welcome The thing I love most about Irish people is our tolerance and acceptance of the fact we have no clear summertime. Sunshine hits our shores for the week here and there from April to October. So, we have adopted a “take it when we can get it” attitude and are ready to sunbathe and barbecue on a moment’s notice, and if all else fails, we will do it anyway. This July / August issue is our summer special edition and it’s brimming with summer eating ideas for any occasion when the sun peeks through the clouds--a family barbecue on when a whim, children’s garden party, a picnic with friends on the beach or an ice-cream sitting on your doorstep, we’ve got it covered. Check out 5 ways with skewer p. 42 so you can whip up something for the barbecue at a minute’s notice, 30 speedy salads and dressings p. 46 will mean you won’t arrive to a friend’s house empty-handed. Cooking begins at home, and most of us learned from one or both of our parents. Every junior cook should start their own collection of recipes, marking their favourites, tweaking them to their liking as they learn how to enjoy new ingredients. This is why we have created Easy Juniors p. 58 --our new cut-out-and-keep recipe page just for our younger readers. Speaking of cooking talent, I am delighted to say that the Easy Food Home-Cook Hero Awards 2013 is officially open for entries! This cookery competition is our annual event in which we ask everyone to enter their favourite recipes across a variety of categories. The top three finalists, as chosen by us, in each category are asked to join us on Saturday, November 9th in Cooks Academy Cookery School in Dublin city centre to cook their dish. Each dish will be judged by our panel of judges and then winners are announced at a black-tie awards ceremony in the Shelbourne Hotel that evening. People of all ages can enter and there are lots of categories to choose from, so go to p. 15 for full details on how to enter and best of luck. As always, I hope you enjoy reading. Dee Laffan, Editor Easy Food 3 |
| A．What Irish people love most is sunbathing at the shore in summer. |
| B．Salads and dressings seems like preferable gifts when visiting a friend. |
| C．All the people learn to cook following one or both of their parents’ recipes. |
| D．The winner of cookery competition will be announced at a formal ceremony. |
| A．introduce the content covered in the magazine |
| B．provide cut-out-and-keep recipe for junior cooks |
| C．invite cooking talents to take part in a competition |
| D．call on Irish people to enjoy precious summertime |
| A．a food critic working for Michelin |
| B．a mother of a new-born child |
| C．a student interested in cooking |
| D．a chef full of experience |
2 . When Johan Bavman’s son Viggo was born, so was a deeply personal photograph project: a look at fathers using Sweden’s expansive parental-leave policy-to stay home with their children.
Paid maternal leave around childbirth is commonplace throughout the world: It’s federal policy in 34 or the 35 member nations, such countries as England, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Canada, etc. of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development（all but the United States）. About two-thirds of those nations also fund at least brief parental leaves for fathers-a benefit first extended by Sweden, in 1974.
Sweden’s program has allowed parents to split 480 days of subsidized（补贴的）leave to care for children and earn bonuses according to how evenly they split the leave. But despite those incentives, only about 14 percent of Sweden’s fathers “took paternal leave and shared the days equally with their partner,” Bavman says.
He joined the ranks of those dads in 2012 at Viggo’s birth-- “I wanted to be at home by myself with him, to get to know his needs” --and is also using leave to stay home with Manfred, born in 2016. In his photo project（now a book）, Bavman shows fathers in Sweden overseeing child and home care. “It’s gone unrecognized that this is really hard, full-time work” he says, and “something that women have always been doing.”
Like most new mothers, Caroline Ihlstrom looked forward to cuddling and feeding her new-borns. But premature twins Parisa and Leia were unable to nurse. When Bavman arrived to take photos shortly after the twins’ birth, their father, Samed Kohigoltapeh, had fed them formula（配方奶）and was warming them against his skin. A construction engineer. Kohigoltapeh took joint parental leave with Ihlstrom for the babies’ first four months and then soloed with them for six more months.
So far Bavman has made portraits of 45 fathers on leave. He is happy to offer them as role models “so men can see the benefits of being on leave.” But he’s not as impressed with the nicknamed some Swedes apply: latte-pappor, or “latte dads,” as if the men perform childcare duties between coffee dates. Though he does drink coffee, Bavman says, “I don’t have time to sit.”
Taking long leaves with his children has made him a better parent, Bavman says. He hopes his photography project will inspire more fathers-and more countries-to give the idea a try.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 2?| A．Two-thirds of the countries carry out maternal leave. |
| B．Not many fathers exploit the policy to take care of their kids. |
| C．Most of the member countries of OECO support paternal leave. |
| D．The parental leave policy is to split days of subsidized leave to care for children. |
| A．tended on his own | B．sang songs alone |
| C．joined his wife | D．construct a personal project |
| A．The longer days the father is on leave than the mother, the more bonus they will receive. |
| B．Bavman’s project reveals the fathers are doing what tough work previously done by mothers. |
| C．Bavman’s ridicules the expressive nickname, representing what life he is living. |
| D．Most fathers take such leaves because they want to stay away from their jobs. |
| A．Paid parental leave policy | B．Bavman’s parental project |
| C．Parental leave on Dad’s term | D．A role model of Swedish fathers |
3 . In American culture, I am noticing a lack of respect, especially among children. This should be treated
In 1995, I spent a couple of months in Kenya where I lived with a pastor’s family. This pastor was a part of the Maasai tribes that have some unique customs. One of them is the
In my early 20’s, I worked at a children’s home in South Carolina where the children from 4 to 19 years old were taught to respect their elders. They
Immanuel Kant expressed two
| A．passionately | B．steadily | C．publicly | D．alarmingly |
| A．challenging | B．faking | C．piloting | D．abandoning |
| A．assistance | B．greeting | C．blessing | D．guarantee |
| A．come forward | B．drop by | C．show off | D．fall down |
| A．pretend | B．suspect | C．determine | D．acknowledge |
| A．located | B．ranked | C．addressed | D．defied |
| A．delight | B．delay | C．decline | D．distress |
| A．gesture | B．secret | C．behavior | D．authority |
| A．peers | B．enemies | C．guards | D．owners |
| A．controversial | B．accepted | C．foreign | D．equivalent |
| A．twisting | B．imposing | C．banning | D．sparing |
| A．reason | B．solution | C．harmony | D．consciousness |
| A．similarity | B．response | C．obedience | D．approach |
| A．environmental | B．external | C．voluntary | D．flexible |
| A．luxuries | B．glories | C．instruments | D．models |
4 . Shortages of flu vaccine are nothing new in America, but this year’s is a whopper. Until last week, it appeared that 100 million Americans would have access to flu shots this fall. Then British authorities, concerned about quality-control problems at a production plant in Liverpool, bailed all further shipments by the Chiron Corp. Overnight, the U.S. vaccine supply dwindled by nearly half and federal health officials found themselves making an unusual appeal. Instead of pleading with us all to get vaccinated, they’re now urging most healthy people between the ages of 2 and 64 not to. “This re-emphasizes the fragility of our vaccine supply,” says Dr. Martin Myers of the National Network for Immunization Information, “and the lack of redundancy in our system.”
Why is such a basic health service so easily knocked out? Mainly because private companies have had little incentive to pursue it. To create a single dose of flu vaccine, a manufacture has to grow live virus in a 2-week-old fertilized chicken egg, then crack the egg, harvest the virus and extract the proteins used to provoke an immune response. Profit margins are narrow, demand is changeable and, because each year’s flu virus is different, any leftover vaccine goes to waste. As a result the United States now has only two major suppliers (Chiron and Aventis Pasteur) and when one of them runs into trouble, there isn’t much the other can do about it. “A vaccine maker can’t just call up and order 40 million more fertilized eggs,” says Manon Cox, of Connecticut-based Protein Sciences Corp. “There’s a whole industry that’s scheduled to produce a certain number of eggs at a certain time.”
Sleeker technologies are now in the works, and experts are hoping that this year’s complete failure will speed the pace of innovation. The main challenge is to shift production from eggs into cell cultures—a medium already used to make most other vaccines. Flu vaccines are harder than most to produce this way, but several biotech companies are now pursuing this strategy, and one culture-based product (Solvay Pharmaceuticals’ Invivac) has been cleared for marketing in Europe.
For America, the immediate challenge is to make the most of a limited supply. The government estimates that 95 million people still qualify for shots under the voluntary restrictions announced last week. That’s nearly twice the number of doses that clinics will have on hand, but only 60 million Americans seek out shots in a normal year. In fact, many experts are hoping the shortage will serve as an awareness campaign — encouraging the people who really need a flu shot to get one.
1. Shortage of flu vaccine show that ________.| A．America relies too much on foreign suppliers |
| B．the demand of flu vaccines is high this year |
| C．quality problem is a serious problem in flu vaccine production |
| D．the supply of flu vaccines is rather weak and America has no back-up measures to make it up |
| A．complicated process, high cost, low profit and high risk |
| B．shortages of fertilized chicken eggs |
| C．difficulty in growing live virus |
| D．fast changing of flu virus |
| A．the government hopes to solve the problem by way of volunteer restrictions |
| B．more than 47 million Americans who are qualified to get flu vaccine shots cannot get hem this year |
| C．America has to deal with a limited supply of flu vaccines this year |
| D．normally only a small percentage of American population gets flu vaccine shots each year |
| A．All Americans are persuaded not to get vaccinated this year. |
| B．The big problem in innovating flu vaccine producing technique is how to grow virus in a new way. |
| C．More flu vaccines cannot be produced in a short time because private companies refuse to produce more. |
| D．Flu vaccines are easier than most vaccines to produce through cell cultures. |
5 . In the beginning, there was the prank (玩笑).
When motion pictures first appeared, movie cameras were used simply to record normal events. They showed things such as workers leaving a factory, or a train entering a station. It wasn’t long before simple stories were created for film. Since the films were extremely short, the story also had to be very short. So, in 1985. Louie Lumiere staged a simple prank. His film, originally titled Le Jardinere, is now commonly referred as L’ Arroseur Arrose, or in English, The Sprinkler Sprinkled. It shows a mail using a hose (软管) to water a garden. A boy enters the frame and steps on the hose, stopping the water flow. When the gardener looks into the hose nose, the boy releases the pressure and the gardener gets a face full of water. The boy laughs, but is immediately caught and spanked.
This creased the first film comedy type. Prank films became the common way to get laughs from an audience during the earliest days of cinema. It is an extremely simple but infinitely flexible method of creating a moment of tension and release. The audience gets to be “in on the joke” watching the situation being set up. The trap is sprung, forming the highest of the event. Usually, the prankster is caught, and spanked, giving closure to the narrative.
Similar stories involved people simply misbehaving and getting their comeuppance. Mr. Flip (The Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, 1909), directed by Gilbert M. Anderson, featured Ben Turpin as a lifeless flirt (打情骂俏). He goes to various shops and offices, trying to touch the cheeks of female workers. In each of the events, he gets punished. The women pokes him in the bottom with scissors, the customers in the bar spray soda water in his face, and the switchboard operator can somehow send electric shocks to the telephone he is using.
A comic strip called Foxy Grandpa by Carl E. Schultze featured an old man with a pair of rascally grandsons. They would try to play tricks on him, but he would always turn the tables on them by using his wits. The strip was developed into a vaudeville (杂耍表演) character played by Joseph Hart, who went on to play the same part in silent films.
It would be a mistakes to think of this as an outdated style of comedy. Prank films are certainly still a hit on YouTube. It is also a useful way to design an animated narrative. The best example would be the Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoons. Each of the Coyote’s theme is comparable to a prank. He sets up a trap, tries to spring it on the Road Runner, it fails, and he gets the worst of it.
1. The author believes that The Sprinkler Sprinkled ________.| A．was a record of normal life events |
| B．created the first sound comedy movie |
| C．was made in a time of technical limitation |
| D．was about a gardener making fun of a boy |
| A．share | B．punishment |
| C．dismissal | D．responsibility |
| A．The audience take delight in seeing the prankster suffering pain. |
| B．Prank films gradually lose their appeal, giving way to animations. |
| C．In Mr. Flip, Ben deserves the treatment as he takes advantage of women. |
| D．The grandfather in the Foxy Grand pa always falls into his grandson’s tricks. |
| A．By analyzing statistics. | B．By making comparisons. |
| C．By giving instructions. | D．By presenting examples. |
| A. emotionally B. restructured C. adaptable D. withstand E. dwelling F. predict G. counting H. professional I. regulate J. surprise K. bump |
We’ve all heard of IQ, and terms like EQ, which relates to your emotional intelligence, are commonly used. But have you heard of AQ? AQ stands for adversity quotient and measures your ability to deal with the ups and downs of life. Being able to handle these rough patches we all go through is not only important in our personal lives but in our
Adverse situations can take us by
Luckily, there are some steps you can take to help you be more resilient and
Things happen in life we can’t prevent - and sometimes they aren’t pleasant. But taking a few steps to be more resilient can make than a little easier to get through.
Walmart has a plan to tackle the climate crisis. Can it pull it off?
Every day a seemingly never-ending stream of toothbrushes, toilet paper, tape, thumbtacks, toys and
The retailer, which was for many years
Walmart has declared its mission
Over the past years, Walmart
"It's extraordinary," said Michael Vandenbergh, co-director of the Climate Change Research Network at Vanderbilt Law School,
Yet it's an uphill task for a retail giant with a business model based on providing tens of millions of low-priced products to a growing number of customers. The big question will be
Four-day Workweek
In the United States, employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees want to work a four-day week and are willing to accept less pay in order to do so. If a law required companies to offer their employees the option of working a four-day workweek for four-fifths (80 percent) of their normal pay, it would benefit the economy as a whole as well as the individual companies and the employees who decided to take the option.
The shortened workweek would increase company profits because employees would feel more rested and alert, and as a result, they would make fewer costly errors in their work. Hiring more staff to ensure that the same amount of work would be accomplished would not result in additional pay the company has to prepare for these people, because four-day employees would only be paid 80 percent of the normal rate. In the end, companies would have fewer overworked and error-prone(容易出错的) employees for the same money, which would increase company profits.
For the country as a whole, one of the primary benefits of offering this option to employees is that it would reduce unemployment rates. If many full-time employees started working fewer hours, some of their workload would have to be shifted to others. Thus, for every four employees who went on an 80 percent week, a new employee could be hired at the 80 percent rate.
Finally, the option of a four-day workweek would be better for individual employees. Employees who could afford a lower salary in exchange for more free time could improve the quality of their lives by spending the extra time with their families, pursuing private interests, or enjoying leisure activities.
9 . The internet has transformed the way people work and communicate. It has upended(颠倒) industries, from entertainment to retailing. But its most profound effect may well be on the biggest decision that most people make -- choosing a mate.
In the early 1990s the notion of meeting a partner online seemed freakish, and not a little pathetic. Today, in many places, it is normal. Smartphones have put virtual bars in people's pockets, where singletons can mingle free from the constraints of social or physical geography.
Digital dating is a massive social experiment, conducted on one of humanity's most intimate and vital processes. Its effects are only just starting to become visible.
The greater choice of meeting one Mr/Mrs. Right makes the digital dating market far more efficient than the offline kind. For some, that is bad news. Because of the gulf in pickiness between the sexes, a few straight men are doomed never to get any matches at all. On Tantan, a Chinese app, men express interest in 60% of women they see, but women are interested in just 6% of men; this dynamic means that 5% of men never receive a match.
For most people, however, digital dating-offers better outcomes. Research has found that marriages in America between people who meet online are likely to last longer, such couples profess to be happier than those who met offline. Online dating is a particular boon(好处、益处) for those with very particular requirements. I date allows daters to filter out matches who would not consider converting to Judaism, for instance.
The fact that online daters have so much more choice can break down barriers; evidence suggests that the internet is boosting interracial marriages by bypassing homogenous social groups. But daters are also more able to choose partners like themselves. Assortative mating already shoulders some of the blame for income inequality. Online dating may make the effect more pronounced: education levels are displayed prominently on dating profiles in a way they would never be offline.
But even if the market does not become ever more concentrated, the process of coupling (or not) has unquestionably become more centralised. Romance used to be a distributed activity which took place in a profusion of bars, clubs, churches and offices; now enormous numbers of people rely on a few companies to meet their mate. That hands a small number of coders(编程员) tremendous power to engineer mating outcomes. Competition offers some protection against such a possibility; so too might greater transparency over the principles used by dating apps to match people up.
Yet such concerns should not obscure(使模糊) the good that comes from the modern way of romance. The right partners can elevate(提升) and nourish(滋养) each other. The wrong ones can ruin both their lives. Digital dating offers millions of people a more efficient way to find a good mate. That is something to love.
1. Which is NOT the benefits brought by digital dating?| A．A straight man sees a higher chance of finding a mate. |
| B．Certain requirements can be met through filtering out the unqualified potential 'candidates'. |
| C．Efficiency of finding a mate has been raised thanks to the wider choices. |
| D．People who find like-minded matches online are happier in their marriages. |
| A．marked | B．subtle | C．difficult | D．inviting |
| A．The desire of people to find a mate quickly. |
| B．The heavy reliance of people on a dating website or professional company. |
| C．The higher chance of meeting a mate online. |
| D．The narrower distribution of people seeking mates. |
| A．Indifferent. | B．Neutral | C．Supportive | D．Critical. |
| A. allowed B. broadcast C. checked D. complaints E. degrade F. entertain G. fictional H. figures I. remote J. series K. unpleasant |
Reality TV began in the early 1980s, when a Japanese television company made a programme, Endurance. Starting with thousands of contestants in the first show, the programme presenters made them do really difficult and
In another reality TV programme, Survivor, sixteen people are taken to a(n)
It's not just adults who take part in these shows. A television
In 2004, there was a programme in Britain where contestants were not
But where will it stop? Programmes like this are
