1 . Many people say they don’t like the taste of most vegetables. The good news is there are many ways to prepare vegetables that are not only healthy but delicious as well.
If you’re convinced (确信) you can’t stand the taste of vegetables, chances are they just need some extra flavor — seasonings (调味品). Think about the foods that you actually do enjoy.
You maybe say you still can’t accept the taste of vegetables.
| A．You’ll forget you’re also eating vegetables. |
| B．What seasonings are used to prepare them? |
| C．Start by visiting your local farmers’ market. |
| D．If so, try hiding them in some of your favorite foods. |
| E．Make sure you always have fresh vegetables on hand. |
| F．Why not wash your vegetables with water before preparing them? |
| G．Many grocery stores also provide recipe cards with new ideas for cooking. |
2 . It was a snowy day during the spring break when I walked into a great restaurant. In this blizzard weather, it was the only restaurant that remained open.
The restaurant has a long history in Hong Kong. Its owners, the couple, Peter and Michelle, have been running the restaurant since 2007.
“Things have changed a lot in the past 30 years,” Peter said. “Chinese students 20 years ago thought that a 70-cent bowl of rice was too expensive, but now a $20 meal is acceptable”. He also said that the new generation of Chinese students engaged with other students, bringing all their non-Chinese friends to visit the restaurant.
Peter takes great pride in his own cooking. He was curious about how the food was made and why particular foods or sauces had specific tastes. He chose to serve mainly Guangdong and Sichuan food at the restaurant, featuring the family-style Chinese dim sum or hot pot.
When I asked whether he would modify the taste of the dishes to suit the taste of most Americans, Peter said, “We are not like those American Chinese restaurants. We provide the genuine Chinese taste to our customers, and they will love it because it is delicious, and their taste will suit the taste of our dishes, not the other way around.”
“If I hear complaints from my customers, I will be so upset that I can’t fall asleep at night”, he said. “Luckily most of my favorite dishes received wide acclaim from my customers and it takes more than one person’s effort.”
He compares himself with the craftsmen in China who are proud of preserving ancient Chinese art and whose motivation is only on people’s enjoyment of their work and thought.
Such a spirit of craftsmanship has been remarkable and greatly valued in the past. The craftsman’s spirit with perfection, precision, concentration, and patience remains in Peter and his cooking.
1. How long have the couple been running the restaurant?| A．16 years | B．20 years | C．30 years | D．70 years |
| A．Its customers are mainly Chinese. |
| B．It sticks to its original taste of the dishes. |
| C．It adjusts the taste according to the customers. |
| D．Its menu merely contains Guangdong and Sichuan food. |
| A．Generous and patient. | B．Ambitious and economical. |
| C．Thoughtful and humorous. | D．Precise and devoted. |
| A．He believes that cooking just needs one person’s effort. |
| B．He shows an interest in preserving ancient Chinese art. |
| C．He takes pride in cooking the best typical Chinese cuisine. |
| D．He cares about the taste of the dishes rather than customers’ complaints. |
3 . Maybe you grew up eating food made by your grandmothers, mouth-watering dishes that bring back sweet, unforgettable memories. Perhaps it was Italian noodles or even Chinese dumplings. Now, at Enoteca Maria, a unique restaurant in New York City, you can eat the dishes same to your grandmother’s cooking.
When Joe Scaravella opened his restaurant, he named it after his mother. Then, in order to remember his grandmother, Joe invited local grandmothers to cook Italian dishes in his kitchen. “I wanted to try to recreate that: the grandma cooking in the kitchen”, he said.
Enoteca Maria is an Italian restaurant where half of the menu changes daily. The fixed half is Italian; the changeable half includes cuisines from all over the world. And what makes the restaurant unique is not professional chefs calling the shots in the kitchen, but grandmothers! Each night, a grandmother from a different country designs a fresh menu, honoring her native cuisine and the food she loves best. Currently, the restaurant is only open three days a week: Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Although it’s usually packed, the grandmothers arrange everything orderly.
When the restaurant first opened, several local Italian grandmothers from different Italian regions would cook their own special dishes on a regular schedule, sometimes launching friendly competitions of whose dish was better. When people from different cultures visited the restaurant to get a taste of original Italy, Scaravella decided to extend the competition to include women from across the globe, to make sense to celebrate every culture, and thus, in 2015, the “Grandmothers of the World” initiative was born.
Now, business is running at full speed with around 30 grandmothers from different nationalities cooking in the kitchen.
1. What inspired Scaravella to invite grandmothers to cook in the restaurant?| A．The interest in cooking. | B．The love for his mother. |
| C．The desire to recreate Italian dishes. | D．The wish to honor his grandmother. |
| A．Updated menus. | B．Local cuisines. |
| C．Grandmother chefs. | D．Foreign dishes. |
| A．To create better dishes. | B．To attract more visitors. |
| C．To extend the business. | D．To present different cultures. |
| A．Grandmothers’ cooking wins hearts | B．Italian cuisine occupies the market |
| C．Grandmothers run the restaurant | D．Homemade dishes go popular |
Chinese culinary arts has a long history, famous all over the world. Chinese cuisine has developed and matured over the centuries, forming a rich cultural content. It is characterized by fine selection of ingredients, precise processing, particular care to the amount of fire, and substantial nourishment.
The diversity of geography, climate, costumes and products have led to the evolution of what are called the “Four Flavors” and “Eight Cuisines” but as catering is a living art sub-classifications continue to increase. Cuisine in China is a harmonious integration of color, redolence, taste, shape and the fineness of the instruments. For the cooking process, chefs pick choice and various ingredients and seasonings while employing unparalleled complicated skills handed down from their fathers, ever aspiring to their ideal of perfection for all the senses. Among the many cooking methods they use are boiling, stewing, braising, frying, steaming, crisping, baking, and simmering and so on. When they finish their masterpieces they are arranged on a variety of plates and dishes so that they are a real pleasure to view, to smell and ultimately to savor.
Beijing cuisine combines the best features of different regional styles. Shangdong cuisine leads the Northern dishes. Shangdong cooks are good at cooking seafood. Sichuan cooks specialize in chilies and hot peppers and Sichuan dish is famous for aromatic and spicy sauces. Guangdong cooking makes use of many ingredients. They look for fresh, tender, crisp textures. Huai Yang cuisine stresses the natural flavors. Dishes are strong but not greasy, and light but delicate. Tan cuisine is both sweet and salty. There is a saying that “southerners have a sweet tooth, and northerners crave salt”, but Tan dishes manage to satisfy both. Because China’s local dishes have their own typical characteristics, Chinese food can be divided into eight regional cuisines, the distinction of which is now widely accepted.
1. What does the underlined word “ characterized” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?2. What does the passage mainly tell us??
3. What caused the diversity of Chinese cuisine?
4. What is typical of Sichuan dishes?
5. How do the cooks perfect their masterpieces besides cooking according to passage?
5 . It’s funny—as a writer, it’s easy to share your knowledge, or your personal stories with an unknown listener of many. You think your friends and family may not read your articles. But as I began to talk more openly about Chinese traditions and food, I learned that they were interested, curious and really hungered for it. Their interest and curiosity grew and the culmination of their interest and curiosity was this past Spring Festival. They would like to spend the Spring Festival with me. It was an inconvenient Monday. I’d never had the Spring Festival when anyone but my father cooked.
I took the day off work in a madness of last-minute preparation. I drove 45 minutes out of town to a Cantonese BBQ shop where I bought a whole roast duck (烤鸭) and watched, fascinated, as it was changed into bite sizes. I shopped at a faraway international market like madwoman, looking for Chinese vegetables and other foods that would be new for my guests I called my dad, asking for six-second pointers on how to make dishes I’d never made. I texted him pictures of the sea fish I picked out, and the red clothing they threw on for luck.
In just a few hours, I cooked a dinner of 15 dishes for six friends who cared enough about me and my culture to come over on a cold winter Monday night to celebrate my tradition with me. We drank, ate and toasted the beautiful night. And that night, I felt what it was to be loved for my culture as well as our food.
1. What does the underlined word “culmination” mean in paragraph 1?| A．Top. | B．Celebration. | C．Tradition. | D．Trouble. |
| A．She ate a whole roast duck. | B．She took a roast duck. |
| C．She asked to cook a duck herself. | D．She took beautiful photos of the duck. |
| A．The shops the author went to. | B．The author’s love of Chinese food. |
| C．The author’s preparation for dinner. | D．The suggestions the author’s father gave. |
| A．She is living with her father. | B．She is a madwoman. |
| C．She is a world famous writer. | D．She is proud of Chinese culture. |
6 . Four Best Cooking Apps
Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference
Requirement: iOS 9. 3+
Price: $ 1. 99
This app will help streamline our tasks of cooking by providing you with quick access to a set of tools specially designed for kitchen efficiency.
*Get nutritional(营养物的) information for individual foods or whole meals.
"Convert ingredient measurements (转换配料用量) to serve larger or smaller groups.
*Locate nearby grocery stores by place or store name.
Gordon Ramsay: Cook With Me
Requirement: iOS 4. 3+
Price: $ 5. 99
There are 56 recipe videos included in the app, showing the famous British professional cook Gordon Ramsay cooking the dish to give you the confidence to cook it yourself. And now there are 8 free text recipes plus 40 paid text recipes in the app.
MealBoard
Requirement: iOS 9.0+
Price: $ 3. 99
Store your recipes, create meal plans and grocery lists, keep track of your pantry inventory(储藏室的库存). All in one app!
*Import recipes from popular recipe websites, or add your own recipes.
*Make your grocery list based on the meal plan you created and check off grocery items as you shop.
*Keep track of what you have in your pantry, and record best-before dates and inventory locations.
*Email recipes, meal plans and shopping lists, and import recipes sent by other MealBoard users.
Fit Men Cook-Healthy Recipes
Requirement; i0S 10. 3+
Price: $ 2. 99
The winner of Apple App Store Best of 2015
Kevin Curry shares his journey to fitness with the Fit Men Cook community on social media and inside this app where you'll find the best way to prepare 273 of his most popular recipes.
1. How much should you pay if you buy Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference?| A．$ 1.99. | B．$ 2.99. | C．$ 3.99. | D．$ 5.99. |
| A．MealBoard. |
| B．Gordon Ramsay: Cook With Me. |
| C．Wolfram Culinary Mathematics Reference. |
| D．Fit Men Cook-—Healthy Recipes. |
| A．It can help you achieve your fitness goal. |
| B．It can let you learn to cook from a professional cook. |
| C．It can tell you where the nearest grocery store is. |
| D．It can remind you which ingredient will not be safe to eat soon. |
