1 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What are the speakers mainly talking about?

A．Chinese restaurants.

B．Chinatown.

C．Favorite food

2. What’s the woman going to do?

A．Cook the best meal for the man.

B．Go to a restaurant with the man

C．Teach the man to cook the best meal.

2 . Growing up in an Italian-American household was, for me, pretty special. My mother, Gina, an immigrant from Italy, held on to so many of her family's traditions that at times, regardless of the fact that I was living in American, our home felt like in Italy.

To this day, my mother only speaks to me in Italian. She may speak in some English terms and expressions from time to time, but our conversations are, for the most part, in her mother tongue. And most of those conversations are about food. For us, food —Italian food is an important part of our lives. The food my mother prepared for me and my sister as children is the same food my grandmother created in her small farm kitchen high up in the mountains.

One of my family's dishes of heritage I made sure to learn and perfect is my mother's arancini di riso (Italian rice balls). Arancini, in Italian, means little oranges. After you roll some leftover rice into a small ball, place a piece of mozzarella   (马苏里拉奶酪 )   in the center, then bread that and fry it, the golden outside resembles one of our favorite fruits. For my family, it also showcased my mother' s ability to always find a delicious way to never let anything go to waste: Last night's good rice was repurposed into this perfect mid-day snack or dinner appetizer.

So, when I take a perfect little arancini out of the hot oil and crack it open, I am immediately transported back to my childhood: I am a little girl getting off the bus and running through the back door to the smell of last night's rice transformed into sticky, delicate goodness. This small snack symbolizes so many important elements in my life: my mother' s waste-not philosophy, her ability to take a few simple ingredients and transform them, and finally, the way she carried her mother' s recipes to the U. S. in her mind and heart so she could, years later, teach me about my heritage through food.

Eating arancini, and all the other recipes my mother continued to make here in the U. S. after leaving Italy, allowed her to teach me who I am, where I come from, and why I should be proud of it all.

1. What makes the author's home feel like in Italy?

A．Fruit and snacks.

B．Neighbors and friends.

C．Names and holidays.

D．Food and language.

2. Why does the author make sure to learn and perfect arancini di riso?

A．It saves valuable food from going to waste.

B．It reminds the author of her days at school.

C．It plays a major role in continuing family tradition.

D．It showcases the cooking skills of the author's mother.

3. What does the underlined word "goodness" in paragraph 4 refer to?

A．Arancini di riso.

B．Mother' s kindness.

C．The Italian language.

D．Amazing cooking skills.

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．Why learning to cook is important for a mother.

B．How the family heritage is taught through food.

C．How childhood experiences change one's life.

D．Why mothers are important in children's education.

3 . When it comes to eating habits, China is a country we must mention. Unlike in the west,    1    everyone has their own plate of food, in China the dishes    2    (place) on the table and everybody shares. If you’re being treated by a Chinese host, be prepared for a ton of food.

While eating, the host serves food with public chopsticks to guests    3    (show) his or her politeness. The appropriate thing to do is to eat the food and say how delicious it is. If you don’t like it, you can just say a polite “thank you”, with the food     4    (leave) there. But don’t stick your chopsticks upright in the rice bowl. If so, it’s very impolite    5     the host and seniors who are present at the table.

At dinner, if half of the fish is eaten up, a guest shouldn’t turn the fish over by saying “fan”, which is    6     Chinese word for “turn over”, which is considered bad luck for     7    (fisherman) and their boats. The    8    (separate) of the fish bone from the lower half of the flesh is usually done by the host or hostess. This is especially true in South China.

These tips above will be    9    (extreme) useful when you visit China, an    10    (east) country with a long history.

4 . The “melting pot” in American cuisine(菜肴。烹饪法) is a myth, not terribly unlike the idea of a melting pot of American culture, notes chef Dan Barber. “Most cultures don’t think about their cuisine in such monolithic(统一的) terms,” he says. “French, Mexican, Chinese, and Italian cuisines each consist of dozens of distinct regional foods. And I think ‘American’ cuisine is moving in the same direction, becoming more localized, not globalized. ”
American cuisine is shaped by the natural wealth of the country. Having never faced agricultural hardship, Americans don’t have to rely on rotating crops, such as the Japanese, whose food culture now showcases buckwheat (荞麦) alongside rice, or the Indians, or the French and Italians, who feature beans alongside wheat. “That kind of negotiation with the land forced people to incorporate(接受) those crops in to the culture,” says Barber. And so eating soba noodles becomes part of what it means to be Japanese, and eating beans becomes part of what it means to be French.
So if what we eat is what we are, what are Americans? Well, meat. “If Americans have any unifying food identity, I would say we are a mostly white meat culture,” says Barber. “The protein-centric dinner plate, whether you’re talking about a boneless chicken breast, or a 16-ounce steak, as an everyday expectation is something that America really created, and now exports to the rest of the world.”
Every single culture and religion uses food as part of their celebrations, says Ellen Gustafson, co-founder of the FEED Project and The 30 Project, which aims to deal with both hunger and overweight issues globally. “The celebratory nature of food is universal. Every season, every harvest, and every holiday has its own food, and this is true in America as well. It helps define us.”
1. According to the first paragraph, American cuisine ________.

A．consists of varieties of regional foods

B．is becoming more and more globalized

C．has absorbed a lot from Chinese cuisine

D．is not as unified as its culture

2. What has made American cuisine different from other cuisines according to the article?

A．Relying on rotating crops

B．The difficulty of planting crops

C．The US’ melting pot culture

D．The US’ agricultural wealth

3. We can conclude from the article that _____ has become part of what it means to be American.

A．eating rice	B．eating beans
C．eating white meat	D．eating soba noodles

4. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the article?

A．American cuisine is healthier than other cuisines.

B．American cuisine hasn’t changed much over time.

C．Americans use food as part of their celebrations.

D．Americans are quite proud of their own cuisine.

5 . It’s the dieting fashion that is sweeping the world, and encourages fasting (禁食) for two days of the week. But does it work?
People are starving themselves to lose weight, with a dieting trend known as the “fast diet” growing in popularity.
The method is also known as the 5:2 diet, and consists of eating normally for five days of a week and cutting calories to about 25 percent of normal intake during other two days. Men consume just 600 calories on the two fast days, while women are limited to 500 calories.
Notably, the two fasting days should not be back-to-back. The dieter should have at least one normal eating day in between.
In the best-selling book The Fast Diet: Lose Weight, Stay Healthy, and Live Longer with the Simple Secret of Intermittent (断断续续的) Fasting by Dr. Michael Mosley and Mimi Spencer, the two authors claim that the 5:2 diet not only promotes weight loss, but also benefits health, offering protection from disease, improved cognitive (认知的) function and increased lifespan.
The diet originated in the United Kingdom and became popular in the United States. Now, it is gaining popularity among the Chinese middle-class.
Zhong Minghui, who is 178 cm tall and used to weigh 100 kilograms, finds fasting effective in weight control. He works in the sales department of a trade company and used to drink and eat a lot after work. After sticking to the fasting diet for five months, he managed to lose about 20 kilograms.
“Actually I did not exactly rely on the 5:2 diet to lose weight. My fasting was more extreme. I almost completely cut off my supper every day and only ate some fruit. I also used an app to calculate the calories in the food I ate and was cautious of not eating any high-calorie food. I did about an hour’s aerobic exercise (有氧运动) every day. Fasting is definitely effective, but I think sports also help,” he says.
“I do not really believe that fasting is the magical cure-all (灵丹妙药), but my high blood sugar has improved,” he adds.
The US Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics says that although there is evidence that intermittent fasting diets may help prevent chronic disease, more research is needed.
Han Ting, a clinic nutritionist of Shanghai Tenth People’s Hospital, says that people who suffer diabetes (糖尿病) or eating disorders, pregnant women, kids, teens and frail seniors should not try fasting. She recommends a regular low-calorie diet, which is safer and less risky for health. When on a fasting diet, on the weekly fasting days, Han recommends low-fat, low-sugar, and low-protein food, such as vegetables, yogurt, non-fat milk, shellfish and fruits with high dietary fiber (食用纤维).
1. What does the underlined word “back-to-back” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Continuous.	B．Different.
C．Vegetarian.	D．Fatty.

2. What can we infer from what Zhong Minghui said in paragraph 8?

A．He strictly relied on the 5:2 diet to lose weight.

B．He used an app to calculate how much sport he played.

C．Fasting and sports helped him a lot when he lost weight.

D．In order to lose weight he used to do gymnastic exercise.

3. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A．Han thinks people who suffer diabetes should try a fasting diet.

B．A clinic nutritionist says that it’s safer to have a low-calorie diet.

C．Han Ting recommends that everyone should have a fasting diet.

D．Hang Ting says only a fasting diet can help people keep healthy.

4. Which is the best title of the passage?

A．Fast diet	B．How to stay thin
C．Eating to stay healthy	D．The magical cure-all