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1. Most people today relate this saying to healthy eating.
如今,大多数人把这条谚语与健康饮食联系起来。
2. Prior /ˈpraɪə(r)/ to coming to China, with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes
来中国之前,那里的中国食物已被改变,以适应美国人的口味。
5. It has become a favourite traditional dish of the people in North China, where making dumplings has always been a family affair with everyone — from the youngest to the oldest — joining in to help.
水饺已成为华北人民最喜爱的一种传统食物;包饺子一直是一项全员参与的家庭活动,无论老少都会加入进来帮忙。
6. These groups traditionally wandered the open range on horses.
传统上,他们骑着马在广阔的草原上漫步。
7. Everywhere, the food was as varied/various as the people.
所到之处的美食与当地人一样精彩纷呈。
8. What we can say, however, is that culture and cuisine/kwɪˈziːn/ go hand in hand,但是,我们可以确定的是,文化和美食这两者息息相关
Unit3 FOOD AND CULTURE
Reading and Thinking
Q1: How many kinds of Chinese cuisine are there, and how can these cuisines be described?
eight main regional cuisines
Anhui cuisine(徽菜)
Sichuan cuisine(川菜)
Shandong cuisine(鲁菜)
Canton cuisine(粤菜)
Fujian cuisine(闽菜)
Jiangsu cuisine(苏菜)
Zhejiang cuisine(浙菜)
Hunan cuisine(湘菜)
Pancake rolls
Sichuan Cuisine
Stewed noodles
Lamb kebab
Dim sum
Boiled dumplings
Lead-in
General Tso’s chicken
Fast-reading
1. What’s the main idea of the passage?
A. You are what you eat.
B. Most famous foods in China.
C. My experiences of food and culture in China.
2. What is the text type?
A: narrative
B: expository writing
C: argumentative essay
D: practical writing
Careful-reading
1.Why does the author cite “You are what you eat” in Para 1?
A.To introduce the theme of the article.B.To persuade people to eat healthy food.C.To show the impact of food on health.D.To prove culture has little to do with cuisine.
[1]The French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once wrote, “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Put more simply, this means “You are what you eat.” Most people today relate this saying to healthy eating. However, Brillat-Savarin was actually referring to our personality个性, charact