1 . 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. |
2. What did the author do in the BBQ shop?
| 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. |
3. What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?
| 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. |
4. What can we say about the author from the text?
| 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. |
