2024届高考英语复习外刊精读：Ice cream innovation 学案

2024届高考备考 外刊精读 Day 52 Ice cream innovation 冰淇淋创新趋势 学案 文本导读： 几个世纪以来，冰淇淋是所有年龄段的人都喜欢的美食。如今，我们吃的冰淇淋比以往任何时候都多，这是为什么呢？需求如何影响冰淇淋的生产和消费？本文浅谈未来冰淇淋的创新趋势。 Step 1:词汇温习 treat 美食，享受 taste 口味 evolve 变化，演变 production process 生产过程 drive (a change) 推动（变化） flavour 口味 complex 复杂的 get the balance right 把握好…的平衡 texture 口感 increasingly automated 越来越自动化 frozen dessert 冷冻甜品 indulgent 作为一种享受的 affordable 买得起的 on a stick 在棍子上的 in a cone 在锥形蛋筒里的 dairy 乳品 plant-based ice cream 植物基冰淇淋 global trend 全球趋势 portion size 份量 shrink 变小，缩小 Step 2: 原文精听+精读 Is there anything nicer than a cooling ice cream on a hot summer's day? This traditional treat is centuries old, but our tastes and consumer habits are evolving. How is the ice cream production process changing, and who is driving this change? Making ice cream is a time-consuming process. While the recipe is simple – milk, sugar and fat, plus flavours and colours – ice cream has a complex chemistry. Getting the balance right between ice, fat and air is important if the ice cream is to have the right texture. To achieve this, the ingredients need to be mixed and heated, then cooled and frozen – a process that takes time and uses a lot of energy. Designers and engineers are working to improve the production process with new specialised equipment to make it increasingly automated. For now, however, even with the help of robots and 3D printers, it can take up to two years from testing a new frozen dessert product to it being available to consumers. And demand is only going up. According to the food packaging company Tetra Pak, more than 25 billion litres of ice cream were eaten worldwide in 2021. While the US and China are the biggest consumers, data from NielsenIQ shows that people in the UK bought 28% more ice cream during the UK's record-breaking summer compared to a year earlier. Clearly, rising temperatures can explain why some people are buying more ice cream, but it's not the only explanation. The pandemic has seen people reaching for pleasures th