话题15 美食吃播-2020-2021学年高一期末复习热点话题阅读与题型专练（通用版）

2020-2021学年高一期末复习热点话题阅读15 话题：美食吃播 【1】 Eating is best when it's a social activity. Think of the meal a family enjoys in the evening when everyone's together after work or school, or the big get-togethers over food at Spring Festival. But now, in the age of the Internet and social media, anyone with an Internet connection can enjoy a social eating event. Mukbang — a South Korean phrase meaning "eating broadcast" — is an unusual food craze(狂热) that's sweeping the country. This is a meal where only one person gets to eat, while many viewers watch live shows of hosts eating large quantities of food. They leave comments on the dishes the host is taking, and the host responds to them live. So why have people taken to this unusual new food trend? Jeff Yang, an Asian-American cultural critic, thinks that it's down to "the loneliness of unmarried or uncoupled South Koreans". He believes that eating on your own can be hard in a country like South Korea, where social eating is such a long tra