1 . Join Sandra Oddo as she shares a variety of tips and skills for making wine at home using elderflowers and elderberries.
| Items | Elderflower Wine Recipe (食谱)  | Elderberry Wine Recipe  |
Ingredients | ● Elderflowers (at least one quart); ● 1 gallon of boiling water per quart of flowers; ● 2 to 2-1/2 pounds of sugar per gallon of liquid; ● 2 lemons per gallon, juiced; ● 1 packet of dry wine yeast (酵母) per 5 gallons of liquid. | ● Elderberries (at least 2 gallons); ● 1 gallon of boiling water per 2 gallons of berries; ● 3-1/2 to 4 pounds of sugar per gallon of boiled-down liquid; ● 1 packet of dry wine yeast per 5 gallons of liquid. |
Instructions | ● Cut a quart of flowers from the stems; ● Pour a gallon of boiling water over the flowers; ● Let the tea soak three or four days with the flowers pressed down under the liquid (they turn brown and ruin the color of the drink if they’re left in the air); ● Strain off the fluid and heat some of it to dissolve 2 to 2-1/2 pounds of sugar per gallon; ● Add the juice of 2 lemons per gallon along with yeast; ● Let the mixture work in a container with an air lock. | ● Pick nice fat berries about two days ahead, remove them from the stems and smash up the fruit: ● Pour boiling water over the mixture, soaking for about a week; ● Keep the container covered with a towel to protect the working “must” from dust and the odd yeast floating around in the air; ● Strain off and save the juice and mix 3-1/2 to 4 pounds of sugar into each gallon of the liquid. |
| A．Water. | B．Lemon. | C．Sugar. | D．Yeast. |
| A．Cutting flowers from the stems. | B．Pouring boiling water over flowers. |
| C．Pressing flowers down under the liquid. | D．Adding an amount of sugar to the liquid. |
| A．A recipe. | B．A science report. | C．A wine list. | D．A flower ad. |
2 . A short cooking video posted by a netizen on TikTok has recently become a popular hit on the site. Bearing the tag “Chinese food”, the video not only showed off the chief’s superb skills in making Chinese dishes, but it also got netizens abroad wanting to get a taste of China’s unique food culture.
Although the video was nothing master-level, just a rather standard homemade fried potato dish, it received more than 200, 000 likes after only three days of posting. In addition to praising the chef, commenters wondered why such a simple Chinese dish could look like a fancy cuisine that had been made through tons of effort. “Even the most basic Chinese dish needs to have three elements: color, smell and taste. For example, color not only requires a chef to have sharp eyes, but also valuable experience,” said Wang, an experienced Chinese chef in Guangzhou.
Chinese cooking is not the only type of content covered by the tag. Other popular videos under the tag include “odd food” challenges, traditional Chinese dishes and Chinese snack tasting, the latter of which has become particularly popular among young omnivore vloggers (video bloggers) living in a world of continually expanding cultural globalization.
“I have been a fan of Chinese food ever since my Chinese friend cooked me di san xian at university. I was surprised by the dish’s taste and its look, which was very different from my home food, but felt it was very familiar to me because I noticed we share similar cooking skills,” said Bianca, an Italian Asian food fan.
“I started my channel by recording my roommate tasting my cooking. These videos got likes and comments gradually. Seeing some people commenting in German or English and saying ‘I want to try it’, I felt these videos can narrow the gap between the two cultures,” said Mr. Bear, a vlogger on Bilibili who promotes Chinese cooking.
1. What does the underlined word “omnivore” in Paragraph 3 refer to?| A．people eating meat. | B．people eating diverse food. |
| C．people eating strange food. | D．people eating vegetables. |
| A．common and dear. | B．expensive and delicious. |
| C．similar and disconnected. | D．special and familiar. |
| A．He is an expert determined to become a Chinese chef. |
| B．The majority of his fans tasted the food he cooked. |
| C．His videos make a difference to cultural communication. |
| D．His roommate encouraged him to cook Chinese food. |
| A．Chinese cooking has become popular among young vloggers. |
| B．advanced technology plays a great part in modern society. |
| C．online videos can make young people internationally famous. |
| D．master-level Chinese dishes are attracting more foreign fans. |
3 . Chinese fried rice with egg enjoys great popularity throughout China due to the simple cooking method. Do you want to have a try? Follow the recipe, and you will get it.
Ingredients you need.
A bowl of cooked rice, an egg, cooking oil salt, ham.
Dice ham finely; crack an egg into a bowl; add a little salt; beat it up with egg-beater or chopsticks.
Some steps to follow.
Fry the egg: Preheat a pan. Add cooking oil and heat it until 150 °C. Pour the beaten egg into the pan.
Tips on cooking.
Remember a little salt is essential when preparing the egg. And make sure to use cold rice cooked in advance.
| A．Preparations you need to make. |
| B．Except for ham, other ingredients also will do. |
| C．Let it expand for half a minute without stiring. |
| D．Frying the rice quickly over high heat also matters. |
| E．The amount of ingredients can be adjusted depending on personal tastes. |
| F．After that, add in the fried egg and mix well with the rice and diced ham. |
| G．The rice in the dish is really soft and delicious, and the egg has high nutritional value. |
Recently, Children should eat their meals and snacks at home during the outbreak of the covid-19 （新冠病毒）,which means not only adding a new stress （压力）for parents （eg, a lot more cooking!）, but also providing a new chance for parents to teach children cooking skills.
Helping children develop an interest in cooking when they're young can help them have the valuable life skill that they can carry into adulthood. Allowing children to help in the kitchen encourages them to learn where food comes from, and teaches them about nutrition and food safety （e.g., the importance of washing fresh produce with clean water, or hand-washing before and after helping in the kitchen）. Doing so may also help children overcome picky eating by becoming more accepting of new foods. What's more, cooking and baking can be fun ways to spend time while bonding with family.
The key is finding tasks that suit children's age and ability, while still guiding and monitoring their progress. Activities that may attract a preschooler's interest in cooking include helping to wash fruits and vegetables and add toppings to a pizza. Older children can be given tasks such as measuring ingredients into cups or beating eggs. Proper cooking skills to introduce to the children aged between 8 and 10 include planning a family meal or following a simple recipe （食谱）.By ages 10 to 12} once able to follow kitchen safety rules, many children can prepare more recipes, including meatballs, cookies and cupcakes.
Getting children to take part in kitchen activities may require patience as they learn. That's why it's helpful to have some extra time at home.
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5 . Food is everything to me. I believe in its
I worked in various cooking positions before
I came to
| A．benefit | B．power | C．style | D．challenge |
| A．role | B．regret | C．interest | D．limitation |
| A．enjoying | B．washing | C．cooking | D．collecting |
| A．plain | B．fresh | C．balanced | D．classic |
| A．staff | B．family | C．team | D．group |
| A．certainly | B．reasonably | C．eventually | D．obviously |
| A．finding | B．losing | C．trying | D．leaving |
| A．moved on | B．took off | C．settled down | D．started out |
| A．old | B．green | C．busy | D．clean |
| A．when | B．whether | C．because | D．though |
| A．realize | B．doubt | C．conclude | D．forget |
| A．rule | B．drug | C．show | D．recipe |
| A．cakes | B．steaks | C．desserts | D．cookies |
| A．comforting | B．greeting | C．treating | D．hugging |
| A．belonging | B．meaning | C．stress | D．security |
| A．pulled | B．looked | C．broke | D．carried |
| A．make | B．spare | C．apply | D．contribute |
| A．inspires | B．reminds | C．invites | D．promises |
| A．flash | B．shame | C．smile | D．shadow |
| A．general | B．initial | C．leading | D．lasting |
