Unit 6 单元话题阅读理解练习-2023-2024学年九年级英语上册单元重难点易错题精练（沪教牛津版）

Unit 6 Healthy diet 单元话题阅读理解练习 （2022秋·广东广州·九年级中山大学附属中学校考期末）Travel around London and you’ll find food from around the globe. Some restaurants even mix different cuisines(菜肴) to create fusion(混合) food—anyone for Brazilian/Japanese or Indian/French? It’s similar across the rest of the UK, and is growing in popularity. But it hasn’t always been the case. Once upon a time, other Western Europeans described British food as boring and bland(淡而无味的), too heavy and full of fat, with tasteless soups and puddings only the British could love. Sixty years ago, there were only four Indian restaurants in the UK. Now there are over 9,500. There were Italian restaurants in Britain in the 19th century, but no real Chinese restaurants until the 1930s. The first Thai restaurant dates from the 1960s, but many other foreign outlets(店面) have opened since then. So why did the British grow bored with their “boring” food? First, soldiers, administrators and planters who had worked overseas encouraged others to try out new food. In the 1970s, the British began to take holidays abroad and discovered new tastes. And at the same time, people from around the world settled in the UK to live and work, bringing food from home that attracted the British. Traditionally, fish and chips has been considered Britain’s national dish, but now it’s more exotic than that. Many people, including former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook, now consider chicken tikka masala(咖喱鸡块) the national dish. It has no particular recipe(食谱), but involves chicken in creamy sauce, Indian style. You won’t find it in India though – one story is that it was created by a Bangladeshi chef in Glasgow in the 1970s. It has come to symbolize(象征) multicultural, multi-ethnic Britain, and could be considered an example of “fusion” food. “Fancy a curry?” as the British say. Then head to Birmingham or Bradford, where you’ll find delicious, spicy Balti cooking. Vegetarian? Try London’s Drummond Street, just behind Euston Station. Check out local