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. because of             B. like             C. shared             D. made        E. ingredients          F. result in G. replace               H. with                 I. through             J. used            K. by

Mooncake Bakers Break the Mold This Year

Mooncakes, the seasonal treat    1    by families and friends during the Mid-Autumn Festival, have become a focus of competition among pastry makers with the traditional holiday for family reunions less than a month away.

Longtime mooncake makers and newcomers are coming up    2    new tricks with new ingredients and fancy designs to lure customers. The holiday, on Oct. 1 this time around, is special this year, many think,     3    the COVID-19 pandemic.

Many mooncake advertisements that started to appear in August in supermarkets, convenience stores and online social media have highlighted new flavours, special ingredients, and exquisite packaging.

Traditional fillings such as lotus seed paste with egg yolk for popular Cantonese-style mooncakes and other common fillings    4    sweet bean paste, jujube paste and the "five kernels"（a mix of walnuts, peanuts, sesame seeds,   almonds and sunflower seeds）are not the only game in town.

This year, Xinya Cantonese Restaurant, which is popular in Shanghai for its seasonal pastries, is promoting mooncakes with mustard tuna fish floss filling and green Sichuan pepper basa fish paste.

Plant-based meat substitutes,     5    by extracting protein from plants such as soybeans and other beans, are also being used by mooncake makers. Kam Wah Gift, a bakery company, has joined in a partnership with plant—based "meat" producer Starfield to design two mooncakes—rose black truffle and matsutake mushroom with artificial meat.

Pagoda, a retail fruit chain with 4,000 outlets in China, has also joined the race with its first mooncake products featuring healthy    6    . The company claims its mooncakes have zero artificial fragrances and dyes, and use antioxidant starch to    7    preservatives.

Taste Back, a snack food startup in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, has been promoting a large mooncake inspired    8    the traditional big, thin pancake popular in Fujian Province. Ding Mao, the company's chief operating officer, said the idea is to build on the local thin pancake.

Designs are another major field of competition as mooncakes are traditionally    9    as gifts. Xinghualou, a traditional Shanghai pastry maker, joined with the Palace Museum to launch mooncakes with limited-edition cases featuring an image of a long scroll painting of the Qing Dynasty（1644-1911）.

Haagen—Dazs, which entered the market with its ice—cream mooncake 22 years ago, worked with the Spanish museum Casa Batllo to use modernist designs from mosaics by architect Antoni Gaudi on the boxes for its mooncake sets.

“Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, people didn't have a proper Spring Festival this year, and we want to convey the ideas of love and connection    10    our mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival,” said James Chiu, vice-president and managing director of General Mills China. General Mills is parent company of Haagen-Dazs.

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. consequences                 B. available                 C. completely                 D. limited          E. decisions F. appropriate                      G. sources                  H. currently                  I. tend               J. forced K. fed

Every time a person eats something, he makes a nutritional choice. He accepts or rejects the food     1    to him at home for meals or snacks. Or he selects food for himself at many places in the community, such as supermarkets, drive-ins, restaurants, and food counters in drugstores. These     2    make a difference in how an individual looks, how he feels, and how well he can work and play.

When various kinds of food in     3    amounts is selected and eaten, the     4    are most likely to be a desirable level of health and enough energy to allow one to be as active as he needs and wants to be. When choices are less than desirable, the consequences are likely to be poor health or     5    energy or both.

More people believe that they are well     6    —that the choices they make are good ones. After all, they are not really sick, neither are they hungry. However, their nutrition is usually poor in one respect or another. Milk and milk products, such as cheeses, ice cream, buttermilk and yogurt, are often ignored. Then people may skip many fruits and vegetables, particularly those that are good     7    of vitamins A and C. These include dark green, leafy vegetables; deep yellow vegetables; and citrus(柑橘类)fruits and vegetables, such as cabbage, tomatoes, and green peppers.

Everyone has the right to choose to be uninformed about nutrition as well as to be informed. If a person believes that she is well fed, attitudes, habits and information cannot be     8    upon her.

There are life situations, however, that     9    to cause an individual to want to know how to make the best choices. For example, a young woman setting up her own apartment is for the first time     10    responsible for the household food supply. Or perhaps a young couple is starting a family and must prepare food for young children.

3 . After reading the passage below, fill in each blank with a proper word given in the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. multicultural            B. reflected             C. king               D. bridge          E. modern          F. eye-catching G. adapted                    H. Connectivity        I. cuisine             J. channeling       K. combining

The Influence of Hispanic Culture on US Food Trends

Americans consume 8.2 million pounds of tortilla chips along with pounds and pounds of cheese for Nachos alone over the course of the big game weekend that only comes once a year. The same is also    1    in Avocado becoming such a popular ingredient, despite being enjoyed by US Hispanics in America for so long. Although Hispanic Culture has made many contributions to American cuisine, this influence has seen a tremendous growth only recently.

    2    is the keyword in summarizing food trends. Most of the trendsetters setting the countless new food trends on social media are Millennial and Generation Z consumers. Almost 1/3 of them are Hispanic. Many of these trendsetters have grown-up or live in harmony side-by-side in    3    communities where there are many Hispanic Americans present. Even if they did not grow up eating these traditional foods in Hispanic households, they still were brought up around it and are using these foods and dishes to    4    many cultures together to make something entirely new and entirely American.

It makes sense that these consumers would dominate food trends because they would be natural influencers and trendsetters given that non-Hispanic trendsetters would be immersed in the culture of these Hispanic Millennials and Gen Z consumers by association as friends. Once again connectivity is    5    .

So what are these Hispanic Food trendsetters connecting to in the latest food trends? Both nostalgic（怀旧的）flavours and    6    approaches. Traditional Hispanic Foods have been    7    by trendsetters to Americanize the taste. They tend to make the most of popular trends by    8    delicious treats and combining them with these trends to great effect. Overall the reoccurring theme seen in all the most    9    foods is connecting back to childhood treats either they enjoyed or that their friends enjoyed and adopting them to what is popular now or combining two classics together to create a new one or coating for traditional snacks to take them to create an entirely new but familiar eating experience that engages the senses even on social media. They're coming together as Americans to both connect all of these days in the average American workweek with Hispanic American culture, food and    10    and celebrate it!

4 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. sustainable     B. potential     C. particularly     D. profitable   E. nature F. supply       G. compare     H. alternative     I. restore     J. ultimately K. fancy

While giant sharks are more common sea monsters in films, jellyfish also pose a major threat in real life—with some being able to kill people with their stings. And the     1    danger they cause doesn’t stop there, with reports of them attacking salmon farms, shutting down power stations and incapacitating(使丧失能力)warships. There are even some scientists in Australia researching whether box jellyfish could     2    destroy our oceans—so could destroying them be a possible solution?

The huge number of jellyfish in our oceans means that if we did start eating them, there is already a large     3    of these potential morsels to be dined on. Also, some people argue that due to their reproductive cycle, jellyfish are actually a(n)     4    food source. Removing a jellyfish from the ocean doesn’t stop new ones being born. This is because they are spawned(孵出)from polyps on the seabed. In some ways, you can     5    them to apples. When you take an apple from a tree, the tree still goes on to produce more apples.

What about their nutritional value? Jellyfish contain 36 calories per ounce, which puts it on a par with iceberg lettuce. However, unlike lettuce, it is full of protein, making it potentially a great diet food. And indeed, in many parts of the world,     6    in Asia, they are already consumed, often raw, fried or chopped up as part of a salad. The demand for these animals, combined with their numbers, means that selling jellyfish is becoming an ever more     7     business.

But what do they taste like? While some say they are flavourless, others describe them as having a salty taste. This could be due to their absorbent(能吸收液体的)     8    , which also leads them to being often served in a sauce. As for the texture, some people negatively compare the experience to eating gristle.

So, the next time you     9    chowing down on some fish, you might look at jellyfish as a sustainable     10    . They might not be the tastiest thing you’ve ever eaten, but it beats fleeing the sea to avoid being stung.

5 . 选词填空

A. elegant     B. cuisine       C. recipe     D. exceptional     E. lamb   F. vinegar

The French author Jean Anthelme Brillat­Savarin once wrote, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.”, which seems to be true. Chinese     1     is a case in point. For example, people in Shandong like boiled dumplings served with     2    . Traditionally, people in Xinjiang spent most of their time on horse backs, so they prefer their food to be cooked over an open fire—usually boiled or roasted meat, such as     3     kebab. In Shandong, the most famous food is pancake rolls stuffed with sliced Chinese green onions. You can experienced wonderful local dishes in South and central Chian, from Guangdong’s     4     dim sum—small servings of food in bamboo steamers—to the     5     stewed noodles In Henan.

6 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can be used only once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. nutritional   B. objected   C. sustainable   D. comparison   E. motivational   F. projected G. necessarily   H. popularity     I. unsweetened       J. previously   K. source

Plant-based Milk

There are nutritional differences between types of milk, from oat to soy to cow’s. Plant-based milks have been growing in     1     for years, but the nutritional content of different milks and milk alternatives vary, with disagreements between brands too. The global dairy alternatives market is     2     to grow from $22.25 billion in 2021 to $53.97 billion in 2028, according to a report by Fortune Business Insights. In February 2022, the world’s first potato milk launched in the UK, which bills itself as “the most     3     plant-based dairy alternative on the market.”

While some people choose dairy alternatives, cow’s milk is an excellent     4     of calcium, protein, and vitamin D. It’s also working better than water when people feel thirsty, according to a small study by St Andrews University in Scotland. However, some people stay away from dairy because of intolerance of the mouthfeel or environmental concerns, and for some, the     5     factor is health. Nutritional reports of milks vary, with some offering more fiber, fat, protein, carbs, sugar, and calories than others.

Dietitians recommend choosing fortified plant-based milks. Plant-based milks are not     6     “healthier” than dairy, and when following a plant-based diet, dietitians recommend ensuring your dairy-free milk alternatives are fortified with essential vitamins and minerals. “Fortified means that they are added by the manufacturer and so will be on the ingredients list, or advertised on the front,” dietitian Nichola Ludlam-Raine     7     told Insider.

“Choose milk alternatives that are fortified with vitamins such as vitamin B12 and vitamin D, in addition to the minerals calcium and iodine,” she said. The     8     content of milk varies in terms of protein, carbs, and fiber. Cow’s milk, for example, contains lots of calcium and vitamin D, as well as protein. Soy milk is often fortified with calcium, and is also high in protein. For the purpose of this     9    , Insider selected popular brands of each milk, selecting     10     options wherever possible, per cup. Here’s some nutritional information on our website to bear in mind when choosing which milk to have in your coffee, on your cereal, or alongside a cookie.