Unit 3 Food and Culture 课文语法填空 -2023-2024学年高中英语人教版（2019）选择性必修第二册

Unit 3 FOOD AND CULTURE Reading and Thinking Culture and Cuisine The French author Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin once 1._________(write), “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” Put more simply, this means “You are 2.________ you eat.” Most people today relate this saying 3._____ healthy eating. However, Brillat-savarin was actually referring 4._____ our personality, character, and culture. 5.__________(certain), in many ways this seems to be true. Chinese cuisine is a case in point. Prior to 6._________(come) to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food that 7._________________(change) to suit American tastes. For example, America's most popular Chinese dish is General Tso's chicken,which 8._________(consist) of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce, 9._________(flavour) with hot red peppers. This is probably not 10.______ authentic Chinese recipe,however, so it cannot tell us much about the Chinese. 11.______ the other hand, it does tell us a lot about Americans. It tells us, for example, that Americans love bold, simple flavours. And since the dish was also invented recently, it tells us that Americans are not afraid 12._________(try) new foods. 13._________(late), I had a chance 14.___________(experience) authentic Chinese food by coming to China. When my family and I had just arrived in China, we went looking for a good place 15._________(eat) in Beijing. A Sichuan restaurant 16.__________________(recommend) to us by a friend, and finally, we found it. 17._________(tire),hungry, and not knowing a word of Chinese, we had no idea how to order, so the chef just began filling our table 18._________ the best food we had ever eaten. With this, we had the pleasure of experiencing an 19._________(entire) new taste: Sichuan pepper corns. The food was wonderful and different, but what was even 20._____________(important) was the friendship offered us. We soon moved to Shandong Province in the eastern part of Nor