There's more of a connection between food and culture than you may think.
On an individual level, we grow up eating the food of our cultures. Many associate foods from our childhood with warm feelings and fond memories, tying us to our families.On a large scale, food operates as an expression of cultural identity, Traditional cuisine (烹饪法) is passed down from one generation to the next. Immigrants bring the food of their countries where they go, and cooking traditional food is a symbol of pride for their ethnicity (民族特色) as well as a means of coping with homesickness.
Many immigrants open their own restaurants and serve traditional dishes. However, the food does not remain exactly the same. Some ingredients needed to make traditional dishes may not be readily available, so the taste and flavour can be different from what they would prepare in their home countries. Additionally, immigrants who sell dishes have to alter the original dishes to satisfy a wider range of customers. Alterations to original dishes can create new flavors that still preserve the cultural significance of the dish.
What stays the same is the extent to which each country or community's unique cuisine reflects its unique history, lifestyle, values, and beliefs. For example, in China, harmony is a vital characteristic in almost every aspect of life. This is reflected in Chinese cuisine, where almost every flavour is used in a balanced way. Throughout history, Chinese people are of the belief that food not only needs to be nutritious but also needs to look appealing, so they put a lot of effort into decorating the dishes，with vibrant red as their traditional colour.
As the world becomes more globalized, it is easier to access cuisines from different cultures. We should not only accept our traditions through our culture's food but also become more informed about other cultures by trying their foods. It is important to remember that each dish has a special place in the culture to which it belongs, and is special to those who prepare it. Food is a window to culture, and it should be treated as such.
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Charity — Humanity’s most kind and generous desire — is a timeless and borderless virtue, dating at least to the dawn of religious teaching. Philanthropy (慈善行为) as we understand it today, however, is a distinctly American phenomenon, inseparable from the nation that shaped it. From colonial leaders to modern billionaires like Buffett, Gates and Zuckerberg, the tradition of giving is woven into the national DNA.
While Franklin's gifts lay in wait, the tradition he established evolved alongside the young nation.
Franklin’s gifts represent a broader principle. We are guardians of a public trust, even if our capital came from private enterprise, and our most important obligation is ensuring that the system works more equally and more justly for more people.
| A．What accounts for this culture of generosity? |
| B．This belief is central to the national character. |
| C．How can a sense of generosity be cultivated? |
| D．Americans’ generosity is rooted in selfless behavior. |
| E．America’s philanthropic nature is not restricted to the rich. |
| F．The formal practice of philanthropy traces its origin to a Founding Father. |
3 . That easterners and westerners think in different ways is not mere prejudice. Many psychological studies conducted over the past two decades suggest Westerners have a more individualistic, analytic and abstract mental life than do East Asians. Several hypotheses (假设) have been put forward to explain this.
One, that modernization promotes individualism, falls at the first hurdle: Japan, an ultra-modem country whose people have retained a collective outlook. A second, that a higher rate of infectious disease in a place makes contact with strangers more dangerous, and causes groups to turn inward, is hardly better. Europe has had its share of plagues; probably more than either Japan or Korea.
That led Thomas Talheim of the University of Virginia and his colleagues to look into a third suggestion: that the crucial difference is agricultural. The basic West crop is wheat; the East's rice. Before the mechanization of agriculture a farmer who grew rice had to spend twice as many hours doing so as one who grew wheat. To organize labour efficiently, especially at times of planting and harvesting, rice-growing societies as far apart as India, Malaysia and Japan all develop co-operative labour exchanges which let neighbors stagger their farms' schedules in order to assist each other during these crucial periods. Since, until recently almost everyone alive was a farmer, it is a reasonable hypothesis that such a collective outlook would dominate a society's culture and behaviour, and might prove so deep-rooted that even now, when most people earn their living in other ways, it helps to define their lives.
Mr. Talheim realized that this idea is testable. Large areas of Asia, particularly in the north, depend not on rice, but on wheat. That, as he explains in a paper in Science, let him and his team put some flesh on this theory's bones. The team gathered almost 1,200 volunteers from all over Asia and asked them questions to assess their individualism or collectivism. The answers bore little relation to the wealth of a volunteer's place of origin. There was a striking correlation, though, with whether it was a rice-growing or a wheat-growing area. This difference was marked even between people from neighbouring counties with different agricultural traditions.
Undoubtedly, Talheim's hypothesis has pointed to a direction worth further exploration. Viewing the message from modernized countries such as Japan, Korea and Singapore, which still hold on to collectivism, perhaps we can say: Asian values-with their principles of mutual support and collective action-are only "Asian" because back in ancient times, farmers in many parts of that continent found rice a more suitable crop to grow than wheat.
1. According to the second paragraph, which statement does the author most probably agree with?| A．The first hypothesis fails to justify Japan's ever-keeping collectivism as well as the second. |
| B．The exposure to plague outbreaks increases the probability of the Europeans to turn back to individualism. |
| C．Modernized Japan stays close to collectivism as firmly as Europe maintains individualism in the times of plague. |
| D．Neither modernization, as with Europe, nor the once prevailing plague, as with Japan, gives any evidence that promotes individualism. |
| A．arrange events so that they do not happen at the same time |
| B．help something to develop more strongly because it's about to collapse |
| C．plan or organize something in advance to make it neat or attractive |
| D．offer something to somebody and receive something in return |
| A．whether growing wheat results in more sharing behavior. |
| B．whether growing wheat leads to more prosperous community. |
| C．whether the local crop affects the local economy positively. |
| D．whether the local crop is related to local people's mental life. |
| A．A good beginning makes a good ending. |
| B．The grass is greener on the other side. |
| C．As you sow, so you will reap. |
| D．You are what you eat. |
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5 . As the world changes, our language changes with it. That's why Merriam-Webster recently added more than 250 new words to its online dictionary,
“These new words have been added to the dictionary because they have
Here our newspaper has chosen three of the dictionary’s new entries. Let’s take a look.
Froyo(冻酸奶)
While ice cream has been around for more than 100 years, froyo or frozen yogurt--is comparatively new. Even though it was first invented back in the 1970s, it only started to gain
Compared to ice cream, the main
Word salad(文字沙拉)
It was first used to refer to a series of words said by people with mental illness. Just like the vegetables in a salad bowl, each word makes perfect sense by itself, but when put together, they become hard to
Now the phrase is more often used to refer to the words of a politician, although this refers to the speaker's logic rather than their mental state. US President Donald Trump,'s interviews are often referred to as word salad.
Troll (网络喷子)
The
Other phrases and usage have also been
| A．overtaking | B．covering | C．engaging | D．experiencing |
| A．enjoyed | B．polished | C．established | D．trapped |
| A．release | B．congress | C．negotiation | D．demonstration |
| A．permission | B．package | C．popularity | D．patent |
| A．turning | B．cooling | C．starting | D．selling |
| A．guilt | B．taste | C．appetite | D．diet |
| A．resolution | B．revolution | C．recommendation | D．reservation |
| A．interrupt | B．indicate | C．interact | D．interpret |
| A．in a word | B．For instance | C．All in all | D．As a result |
| A．cultural | B．obvious | C．original | D．hidden |
| A．creature | B．giant | C．worm | D．ghost |
| A．dramatically | B．delicately | C．disorderly | D．deliberately |
| A．offensive | B．objective | C．progressive | D．productive |
| A．evolved | B．invented | C．expanded | D．transformed |
| A．civilian | B．fairy | C．victim | D．pedestrian |
