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新外研必修二 Unit 1 Food for thought
Understanding ideas
A Child of Two Cuisines
________ (grow) up in England with a British father and a Chinese mother, I’ve enjoyed food from both countries ever since I ________ (be) able to hold a knife and fork — and chopsticks!
Mum has sweet memories of the food from her home town in Sichuan, and often cooks ________ (spice) dishes. Thanks ________ this, Dad has come to love hot pot! But there are still some dishes that Dad dare not try even after many years of ________ (marry) to my mother. He once told me he ________ (surprise) by what he saw on the table when he first visited my mother’s parents in China. He was even ________ (shock) at their wedding when he saw how the Chinese ate almost every part of ________ animal. Even today, he still does not ________ (easy) take to ________ (eat) things like chicken feet.
But I enjoy that sort of food myself. Last week, I went to the butcher’s and asked, “Do you have pigs’ ears?|” “No,” the butcher said, ________ (pull) at his own ears, “just these ordinary ones.” He must ________ (think) I was joking.
Dad can cook a super “full English breakfast” of bacon, eggs, beans, sausages and toast with butter — Mum and I just have to find a way ________ (get) him into the kitchen! He also does a typical Sunday roast. We all love roast beef and vegetables, but Mum says we’d better not eat too much roast food as it may make us suffer from heat inside our bodies, according ________ traditional Chinese medicine.
I’ll never forget my first visit to China. Mum encouraged me ________ (try) different ________ (kind) of food, and I did! I loved everything. But just when I thought I could deal ________ all Chinese food, I came ________ stinky tofu, a ________ (horror) grey thing that looked and smelt like a ________ (burn) sports shoe. “You needn’t try it if you don’t want to,” Mum said, but I ________ (gather) all my courage ________ (take) a bite and was ________ (amaze) to find it wasn’t so bad. It rem