Unit 1 Food for thought

Section Ⅰ Starting out & Understanding ideas

基础训练

单词拼写 根据首字母或汉语提示，用本部分所学单词的正确形式填空。

1. I shouldn’t have watched that movie—it’ll give me h________ dreams at night.

2. The lion is considered the king of the forest as it is a s________ of courage and power.

3. Team members must be able to express their o________ freely at the meeting.

4. At 8：00 am， the boys g________ at the foot of Mount Tai and set out for the top.

5.Studies show that people are more likely to s________ from back problems if they sit before computer screens for long hours.

6. John has invited all his friends to attend his ________ （婚礼） party.

7. Some plants and animals contain natural ________ （毒素） that are harmful to people.

8. Since I’m here， I’d like to try a ________ （典型的） dish of this country.

9. Mary is the ________ （种，类） of woman to spread sunshine to people through her smile.

10. ________ （咬） by the snake in the forest， Susan was sent back to the camp.

选词填空 用方框中所给短语的适当形式填空。

（come across feel at home remind oneself of take to fall in love with）

1. He is one of my old schoolmates， who I ____________ the other day in the street.

2. Since I traveled in Chengdu， I ____________ the delicious food there.

3. The young man made a few notes ____________ what he wanted to say.

4. By the end of the year she was beginning ____________ in her new school.

5. After some time， he ____________ eating this kind of food.

课文语法填空

Growing up in England with a British father and a Chinese mother， I __1__ （enjoy） food from both countries ever since I was able to hold a knife and fork—and chopsticks.

Mum often cooks spicy dishes. Thanks __2__ this， Dad has come to love hot pot！ However， there are still some __3__ （dish） that Dad dare not try even after many years of __4__ （marry） to my mother. Even today， he still does not easily take to __5__ （eat） things like chicken feet. But I enjoy that sort of food __6__ （I）.

Dad can cook __7__ super “full English breakfast” of bacon， eggs， beans， sausages and toast with butter. He also does a typical Sunday roast. We all love roast beef and vegetables， __8__ Mum advises us not to eat too much roast food.

When I first visited China， Mum encouraged me __9__ （try） different kinds of food and I did. I loved everything.

People say that one man’s meat is another man’s poison， but I feel at home with food from both my cultures. To me， there’s nothing __10__ （good） than a cross-cultural afternoon tea of English biscuits and a cup of Chinese oolong tea in a fine china cup！

1. ________  2. ________  3. ________  4. ________  5. ________

6. ________  7. ________  8. ________  9. ________  10. ________

阅读理解

Tea drinking was common in China for nearly one thousand years before anyone in Europe had ever heard about it. People in Britain were much slower in finding out what tea was like， mainly because tea was very expensive. It could not be bought in shops and even those people who could afford to have it sent from Holland did so only because it was a fashionable curiosity. Some of them were not sure how to use it. They thought it was a vegetable and tried cooking the leaves. Then they served them mixed with butter and salt. They soon discovered their mistake.

Tea remained scarce （稀少的） and very expensive in England until the ships of the East India Company began to bring it directly from China early in the 17th century. During the next few years so much tea came into the country that the price fell and many people could afford to buy it.

Tea had been drunk without milk in it at first， but one day a famous French lady named Madame de Sevigne decided to see what tea tasted like when milk was added. She found it so pleasant that she would never again drink it without milk. She was such a great lady that her friends thought they must copy everything she did. Slowly this habit spread until it reached England and today only very few Britons drink tea without milk.

At first， tea was usually drunk after dinner in the evening. No one ever thought of drinking tea in the afternoon until a duchess （公爵夫人） found that a cup of tea and a piece of cake at three or four o’clock stopped her getting “a sinking feeling” as she called it. She invited her friends to have this new meal with her and so， teatime was born.

1. What can we learn about the Britons from the text？

A. They got expensive tea from India.                 B. They bought tea out of curiosity at first.