2025-2026学年高一英语外研版必修第二册单元12篇课文精读 讲义

Unit 1 Food for thought

A child of Two Cuisines享受跨国美食的孩子

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总起：点明跨国家庭背景，引出两国饮食体验

① Growing up in England with a British father and a Chinese mother, I’ve enjoyed food from both countries ever since I was able to hold a knife and fork - and chopsticks!

我在英国长大，父亲是英国人，母亲是中国人。从能拿刀叉——还有筷子——起，就一直享用着两国美食。

1. 非谓语动词：Growing up in England...（现在分词作状语，表伴随，逻辑主语为句子主语I）；2. 现在完成时：I’ve enjoyed...（强调从过去持续到现在的饮食体验，符合ever since引导时间状语从句的时态搭配）；3. 核心短语：ever since（自从，引导时间状语从句，主句常用现在完成时）；4. 并列结构：a knife and fork - and chopsticks（破折号补充说明，体现两种饮食工具，呼应“两国美食”）

冲突与对比：母亲的川菜情结、父亲对中式食物的接受度差异（喜爱火锅但排斥部分特色食材）

② Mum has sweet memories of the food from her home town in Sichuan, and often cooks spicy dishes. Thanks to this, Dad has come to love hot pot! But there are still some dishes that Dad dare not try even after many years of marriage to my mother. He once told me he was surprised by what he saw on the table when he first visited my mother’s parents in China. He was even shocked at their wedding when he saw how the Chinese ate almost every part of an animal. Even today, he still does not easily take to eating things like chicken feet.

母亲对四川老家的食物满怀美好回忆，常做辣味菜肴。正因如此，父亲渐渐爱上了火锅！但和母亲结婚多年，他仍有一些菜不敢尝试。他曾告诉我，第一次去中国见外公外婆时，餐桌上的菜肴让他很意外；婚礼上看到中国人几乎吃动物的所有部位时，他更是震惊。即使到了今天，他仍不太习惯吃鸡爪这类食物。

1. 核心短语：have sweet memories of（对……有美好回忆）、thanks to（由于，后接名词/代词/动名词，表原因）、come to love（渐渐爱上，come to do表逐渐形成的状态）、dare not try（不敢尝试，dare此处为情态动词，否定式直接加not）、take to doing（开始习惯/喜欢，to为介词，后接动名词）；2. 定语从句：that Dad dare not try（that引导限制性定语从句，修饰dishes，在从句中作宾语）；3. 名词性从句：what he saw on the table（what引导宾语从句，作by的宾语，表“桌上的东西”）、how the Chinese ate almost every part of an animal（how引导宾语从句，作saw的宾语，表“中国人如何吃动物的几乎所有部位”）；4. 时间状语从句：when he first visited...（when引导时间状语从句，修饰was surprised）、even after many years of marriage...（after引导时间状语，表“即使结婚多年后”）；5. 形容词辨析：spicy（辛辣的）、surprised（感到意外的，修饰人）、shocked（感到震惊的，程度强于surprised）

冲突与对比：“我”与父亲的口味差异，展现“我”对中式特色食材的喜爱及相关趣味经历

③ 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, pulling at his own ears, “just these ordinary ones.” He must have thought I was joking.

但我自己很喜欢这类食物。上周，我去了肉铺问：“有猪耳朵吗？”“没有，”肉铺老板扯着自己的耳朵说，“只有我这双普通的耳朵。”他肯定以为我在开玩笑。

1. 非谓语动词：pulling at his own ears（现在分词作伴随状语，修饰said，逻辑主语为the butcher，生动展现老板的动作神态）；2. 情态动词表推测：must have thought（must have done结构，对过去发生的事情进行肯定推测，意为“一定做过某事”）；3. 名词所有格：the butcher’s（所有格表场所，意为“肉铺”，类似表达还有the doctor’s“诊所”）；4. 名词辨析：ordinary（普通的，强调无特殊之处）；5. 直接引语：完整呈现对话场景，标点符号（逗号、引号）的用法符合英