Unit 3 Food and Culture Reading and Thinking 课文检测 -2026-2027学年高中英语人教版选择性必修第二册

Unit3 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. Certainly, in many ways this seems to be true. Chinese cuisine is a case in point. Prior to 5._________(come) to China, my only experience with Chinese cooking was in America, with Chinese food that had been changed to suit American tastes. For example, America’s most popular Chinese dish is General Tso’s chicken, 6._________ consists of fried chicken covered in a sweet sauce, 7._________ (flavour) with hot red peppers. This is probably not an authentic Chinese recipe, however, so it cannot tell us much about the Chinese. On 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 to try new foods. Later, I had a chance to 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 8._________ (eat) in Beijing. A Sichuan restaurant had been recommended to us by a friend, and finally, we 9._________ (find) it. Tired, hungry, and not knowing a word of Chinese, we had no idea how to order, so the chef just began filling our table 10._________ the best food we had ever eaten. With this, we had the pleasure of experiencing an 11._________ (entire) new taste: Sichuan pepper corns. The food was wonderful and different, but 12._________was even more important was the friendship offered us. We soon moved to Shandong Province in the eastern part of North China. My favourite dish there was boiled dumplings 13._________ (serve) with vinegar. I observed that family is important to the people there. It has become a favourite traditional dish of the people in North China, 14._________ making dumplings has always been a family affair with everyone — from the youngest to the oldest — joining in to help. Later, I learnt that the most famous food in Shandong is pancake rolls stuffed with 15._________ (slice) Chinese green onions. Then we moved to northern Xinjiang. Some of our friends were Kazak and Inner Mongolian. These groups traditionally wandered the open range on horses. As 16._________ result, their traditional foods are 17._________ you can cook over an open fire—usually boiled or roasted meat, such as lamb kebab. Our travels then took us to South China, and then on to 18._________ (centre) China. In each place we went, we experienced wonderful local dishes, from Guangdong’s elegant dim sum—small servings of food in bamboo steamers—19._________the exceptional stewed noodles in Henan. Everywhere, the food was as varied as the people. However, one thing is always true: Through food, Chinese people everywhere show friendship and kindness. At a minimum, the kinds of food local people consume tell us what they grow in their region, what kinds of lives they lead, and what they like and do not like. Could we also say, for example, that those 20._________ like bold flavours are bold themselves? Or, that those who like 21._________ (spice) food tend to have a hot temper? Maybe. Maybe not. What we can say, however, is that culture and cuisine go hand 22._________ hand, and if you do not experience one, you can never really know the other. 参考答案： 1. wrote（once 曾经，一般过去时） 2. what（表语从句，what you eat 你所吃的东西） 3. to（固定搭配 relate…to… 把…… 和…… 联系起来） 4. to（固定搭配 refer to 指的是） 5. coming（prior to 中 to 是介词，后接动名词） 6. which（非限制性定语从句，先行词 General Tso’s chicken，作主语） 7. flavoured（过去分词作后置定语，sweet sauce 被辣椒调味） 8. to eat（不定式作后置定语，a good place to eat 吃饭的好去处） 9. found（讲述过去发生的事，一般过去时） 10. with（固定搭配 fill…with… 用…… 填满） 11. entirely（副词修饰形容词 new） 12. what（主语从句，what 在从句中作主语） 13. served（过去分词作后置定语，dumplings 被端上、被提供） 14. where（非限制性定语从句，先行词 North China，地点状语） 15. sliced（过去分词作定语，sliced Chinese green onions 切好的大葱） 16. a（固定搭配 as a result 因此） 17. what（表语从句，what 作从句宾语） 18. central（形容词修饰 China，central China 华中） 19. to（固定搭配 from…to… 从…… 到……） 20. who（定语从句，先行词 those 指人，作主语） 21. spicy（形容词修饰 food，spicy food 辛辣食物） 22. in（固定搭配 go hand in hand 密切相关，携手并进） 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $