2024年中考英语课外实时阅读拓展：繁花课件

A destination of good taste 《繁花》(Blossoms shanghai)“点燃”上海黄河路，昔日著名美食街“翻红” 语篇类型：新闻报道 主题语境：人与社会·社会热点 词数：344 汇报人姓名 汇报日期 Shanghai’s Huanghe Road was famous for its many expensive restaurants. Only rich people could eat there. But things changed in the mid-1990s.The big and bright signs were taken down because of new safety rules. They also stopped selling fried snakes. Then, financial problems in Asia and the SARS pandemic in 2003 made many restaurants closed. Now, the road is busy again. Lots of people are coming to see it. They are looking for old things and memories. Wang Yongfen has lived there for 35 years. She says she has never seen so many people. A new TV series called Blossoms Shanghai is about Shanghai in the 1990s. 1It shows what the city was like when it was growing fast. Wang, 60, says the TV series makes her think of the past. “The restaurants here first brought Hong Kong food to the city. Many famous chefs from Hong Kong worked here,” she says. In the 1990s, Hong Kong food, songs, and movies were very popular. You could see pictures of restaurant owners with famous people from Hong Kong. A security guard named Zhang says the street is very crowded now. People line up early at the Park Hotel to buy famous pastries. More young people are coming too. The Tai Sheng Yuan restaurant is very busy because of the TV series. Its online sales have gone up a lot. The Fairmont Peace Hotel is also getting more visitors. The hotel made a special menu with food from the TV series. It is expensive but sold out quickly. Online orders for food from the TV series have also gone up. For example, orders for rice soup have increased on Meituan. Other foods like pork chops and rice cakes are being ordered a lot more too. The TV series also reminds people of the past. Huang Jiani remembers the days when people set off big firecrackers in the street for the Spring Festival. Restaurant managers used to light big firecrackers. They were very loud. Business people believe