专题 09 盘中知世界：花园小径 --2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练

2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (9) World in a dish: The garden path 盘中知世界：花园小径 主题语境：人与自我 主题语境内容：健康的生活方式 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） IMAGINE A plate holding two strawberries, identical in appearance. One came out of a supermarket box, meaning it was probably harvested when it was still not ripe, immediately placed in a forced-air cooling unit, loaded onto a  truck and driven hundreds of miles. By the time it reached the plate it may have been picked for two weeks. The other strawberry was picked from a garden minutes before being eaten. The first one will probably taste like a slightly mushy(软踏踏的) cucumber with strong sour flavors. The second is likely to be sweet; the flavour will linger in the mouth, as the scent(香味) will on the hands. Supermarket strawberries are not entirely without advantages: they are convenient and available in the northern hemisphere(半球) in February. But the two berries differ from each other in the same way that hearing Bach’s Mass in B Minor in a co