1 . What are the speakers mainly talking about?
| A．A dish. | B．A cook. | C．A competition. |
2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. How did the woman feel at first when making cakes?| A．Upset. | B．Glad. | C．Tired. |
| A．They were burnt. |
| B．They were eaten by someone. |
| C．They were forgotten to be put in the oven. |
| A．She made cakes again. | B．She asked her sister for help. | C．She bought some cakes in a store. |
3 . We are what we eat. From high-calorie meals to low-fat lunches, much of our health depends on what we eat. We know about the benefits of eating properly for our physical well-being, but cooking food is turning out to be good for our mental well-being as well.
Some people are now thinking highly of the treatment value of cooking food. It’s not just about the end result but the experience someone goes through. Dr. Mark Salter, a famous doctor, said, “Baking and cooking are good therapies (疗法) that help patients develop planning skills, short-term memory and social skills-all of which suffer in mental illness.”
TV chef and author Nadiya Hussain agrees that cooking is great for helping our mind. She loves to bake and became the champion of the TV show, The Great British Bake Off. She says that “Baking’s always been about therapy. It produces something tangible. Unlike something abstract (抽象的), you can touch and enjoy it! Besides, your creations taste delicious and make you feel good. It is a process that really increase your level of life satisfaction.
Certainly, creating some delicious food has helped some of us get through the recent lockdown (禁闭); it’s helped take our mind off things and given us something to do. People have said that kneading dough (面团) to make bread, for example, has given them a sense of calm and control. Research has shown that doing creative tasks, like cooking, makes us feel happier.
Nicole Farmer, who studies how food influences our biology, behavior and mental health, said that baking is an important tool for our socialization and mental health. She thinks that cooking gives you the opportunity to cook for others-in turn, providing the opportunity to improve and build relationships. It is a rewarding experience.
Hopefully, as we start to mix with friends and family again, we can enjoy the benefits once more and put us all in the right state of mind.
1. Why does the author mention Salter’s words in the second paragraph?| A．To support his idea. | B．To explain a medical term. |
| C．To warn us about mental illness. | D．To show his admiration for Salter. |
| A．Instant. | B．Tasty. | C．Appealing. | D．Specific. |
| A．It is a useful survival skill. | B．It is a vital tool for a balanced diet. |
| C．It strengthens connections with others. | D．It provides equal chances for all cooks. |
| A．We Are What We Eat | B．Health Lies in Cooking Foods |
| C．Cooking Helps Physical Health | D．Cooking Promotes Mental Health |
1. 你的经历；
2. 你的体会。
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Hello, everyone,
I’m so glad to share my cooking experience here.
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Growing up in San Francisco, Grace Young used to watch her father shop daily in Chinatown for whatever he needed to make traditional Chinese meals at home. As an award-winning cookbook author, Ms. Young, now 66, has spent decades shopping the same way in New York’s Chinatown.
Ms. Young developed a passion for cooking at an early age. At 13, she started to sit in on cooking classes. After college, Ms. Young moved to New York and worked in a book-packaging company. In her 30s, she realized that while she had helped create more than 40 cookbooks, she didn’t know how to make the dishes that tasted of home. “I knew if I recorded all of my parents’ recipes, it would be a great gift that I could give my family and the next generation.” she says.
Yet what began as a recipe book became a kind of memoir. Talking about food encouraged her parents to finally open up about their past, like the fact that her father had owned a Chinatown restaurant in the 1940s. “It was really an amazing way to learn not only my family’s recipes, but also my family’s story. “she says. The Wisdom of the Chinese Kitchen (1999) launched Ms. Young’s work in preserving and sustaining Chinese culinary (烹饪的)traditions.
Ms. Young has also devoted herself to supporting the restaurants in Chinatown. Since early 2020, Ms. Young has raised money to buy meals from Chinatown restaurants and deliver them to those in need. This year, instead of cooking at home for her husband and friends, she celebrated the Chinese New Year with various dishes from local restaurants in Chinatown. “If these restaurants don’t survive, Chinese culinary traditions in our city won’t survive.” she says.
1. What is Ms. Young known as?(no more than 5 words)1．所需食材；
2．制作过程。
注意：
1．词数80左右；
2．可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。
Dear David,
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Yours,
Li Hua
7 . Growing up in Philadelphia, Lieberman started cooking with his stay-at-home dad when he was seven. His food-loving family had two kitchens, and he quickly learned what was the best way to bake his cakes. Lieberman improved his kitchen skills greatly during a year abroad before college, learning from a cook in Italy and studying local specialties (地方特色菜) in Germany, Spain and France. At Yale, he was known for throwing dinner parties, single-handedly frying and baking while mixing drinks for dozens of friends. Just for fun, he and some friends decided to tape a show named Campus Cuisine about his cooking. Lieberman was a real college student showing his classmates how to do things like making drinks out of dining-hall fruit. That helped the show become very popular among the students. They would stop Lieberman after classes to ask for his advice on cooking. Tapes of the show were passed around, with which his name went beyond the school and finally to the Food Network.
Food Network producer Flay hopes the young cook will find a place on the network television. He says Lieberman’s charisma is key. “Food TV isn’t about food anymore,” says Flay. “It’s about your personality and finding a way to keep people’s eyeballs on your show.”
But Lieberman isn’t putting all his eggs in one basket. After taping the first season of the new show, Lieberman was back in his own small kitchen preparing sandwiches. An airline company was looking for someone to come up with a tasteful, inexpensive and easy-to-make menu to serve on its flights; Lieberman got the job.
1. What does the word “charisma” underlined in the text refer to?| A．A natural ability to attract others. | B．A way to show one’s achievement. |
| C．Lieberman’s after-class interest. | D．Lieberman’s fine cooking skill. |
| A．He could prepare meals in a small kitchen. | B．He was famous for his show on Food TV. |
| C．He was good at using eggs to make sandwiches. | D．He could cook cheap, delicious and simple meals. |
| A．He is clever but lonely. | B．He is friendly and active. |
| C．He enjoys traveling around. | D．He often changes his menus. |
8 . Long before metal oven racks (架子) were invented, many people would place the things that they wanted to bake onto stones to keep them from burning in ovens or even directly on heat.
Typical baking stones can be made of various materials, and tend to be either round or rectangular in shape. The clay stone is popular, but some people like marble. Some have a shiny surface and others don’t have.
There are many benefits of using a baking stone to cook pizza or bread.
| A．The way that baking stones work is simple. |
| B．Baking stones can be found in all shapes and sizes. |
| C．For one thing, it tends to produce more desirable qualities. |
| D．That makes them uniquely useful for many cooking creations. |
| E．Today, the baking stone is associated most with cooking pizza. |
| F．So you can choose from a great variety of stones on the market. |
| G．However, most of these products are not rated for safety in cooking. |
9 . Advice for Cooking on a Tight Schedule
From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money, and time.
Think ahead. I usually think cooking is a pain when I’m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think ahead of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials already?
Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread?
Hopefully that gives you a good start.
| A．Try new things. |
| B．Ability is easily improved. |
| C．Make three or four instead. |
| D．Understand your food better. |
| E．Cooking is a burden for many people. |
| F．Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden. |
| G．A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on. |
1.时间及地点;
2.比赛方式;
3.注意事项。
注意：
1.写作词数应为 80 左右;
2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。
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