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Unit 5 Food and Drink

Conversations：

Mick and his landlady are talking what they like at a meal.

You'll be having meals with us.

Is there any type of food that you don't like or that I can't cook for you?

Erm,not really.The only thing is:I'm not very keen of fish.

Not very keen on fish?No.

Oh,well,that's not too much of a problem.Erm,something else.Oh.I don't like tea,I never drink tea.

Erm,something else.Oh.I don't like tea,I never drink tea.

Oh,you never drink tea?

I usually have coffee.

oh,we usually have tea all the time.

Oh dear!

Erm,I'll mak you some coffee.

Daisy and Lily are going to a snack bar.

We'd better get something to eat,please.

Let's go to snack bar,I hope you'll like it.

Well,I've never been to one before,so you'll have to show me how to get round there.

Ok,you see,it's a kink of help-yourslef serivce.

You just line up and tell them what you want,and they'll give it to you.

Come along.

I guess we'll ahve to join the line there.

Yes.You go and follow the line and I'm going to pick up the trays,knives and forks.

Tom and Alice are continuing their conversation while having their meal.

Have some of the sweet and sour fish,please.

It's appetizing and tasty.

Will you have another cup of coke?

No,thank you.I'm afraid it's a bit too much for me.

How about having a glass of white wine to go with the fish?

That's a good idea.This dish is really wonderful.

What about some fruit?Help yourself to an apple,please.

It's very juicy.I must say we've had a splendid meal.

Mary is talking with her neighbour Sue about how to make fruit salad.

Good morning,Mary,could you tell me how to make a fruit salad?

Of course,it's my pleasure.

Well,first of all,you select the fruit that you want,and then you wash it very carefully.

Erm,then go about peeling it.

Start off with,say,the apples,peeling them,washing them thoroughly,chopping them up into shapes.

Peeling the ba...bananas,chopping them up,putting a little bit of lemon juice so that they don't go brown.

Erm,taking the grapes,washing them,cutting them up.

Erm,pears,you could do the same thing for them.

Putting them all together,sprinking them Liberally with sugar,er,a little bit more lemon juice,putting them into a bowl,and there you have a fruit salad.I see.Thank you very much.I'll have a try.

Passage Enjoy Eating at"Melting Pot"

"You are what you eat."

Nutrition experts often use this saying to promote better eating babits.

What we put in our mouth does become a part of us.

But we can look at this statement another way.

What we eat reflects who we are-as people and as a culture.

Do you want to understand another culture?

Then you ought to find out about its food.

As a foreign traveler can prove,the relation between food and national identity is close and strong.

Not only do citizents of most nations come to perceive some aspect of their cuisine as distinctive,but nations themselves are typically associated with particular food.

Countries are what they eat,or at the very least,people tend to think of nations is culinary terms.

Thus,learning about American food can give us a real taste of American cultrue.

What is"American food?At first you might think the answer is easy as pie.

To many people,American food means hamburgers,hot dogs,fried chicken and pizza.

If you have a"sweet tooth",you might even think of apple pie or chocolate chip cookies.

It's true that American do eat those things.

But are those the only thing you can find in America?

Except for thanksgiving turkey,it's hard to find typically"American"food.

The United States is a land of immigrants.

So Americans eat food from many different countries.

When people move to America,they bring their cooking styles with them.

That's why you can find almost every kink of ethnic food in America.

In some cases,Americans have adopted foods from other countries as favorites.

Americans love Italian pizze,Mexican tacos and Chinese egg rolls.

But the American version doesn't taste quite like the original.

As with any large country,the US has several distinct regions.

Each region boasts its own special style of food.

Visit the South and enjoy country-style cooking.

Journey through Louisiana for some spicy Cajun cuisine.

Take a trip to New England and sample savory seafood dishes.

Travel through the Midwest,"the bread-basket of the nation",for delicious baked foods.

Cruise over tot he Southwest and try some tasty TexMex treats.

Finish your food four in the Pacific Northwest with some gourmet coffee.

Americans living at a fast pace often just"grab a quick bite".

Fast food restaurants offer people on the run everything from fried chicken to fried rice.

Microwave dinners and instant foods make cooking a home a snap.

Of course,one of the most common quick American meals is a sandwich.

If it can fit between two slices of breadm,

Americans probably make a sandwich out of it.

Peanut butter and jelly are all-time American favorites.

Aericans on the go also tend to eat a lot of"junk food".

Potao chips,candy bar,soft drinks and other goodies are popular treats.

Many people eat too many of these unhealthy snacks.

But others opt for more healthy eating habits.

Some even go"all natural".

They refuse to eat any food prepared with chemicals or additives.

American culturre is a good illustration of the saying"You are what you eat."

Americans represent a wide range of backgrounds and ways of thinking.

The variety of foods enjoyed in the US reflects the diversity of personal tastes.

The food may be international or regional.

Sometimes it's fast,and sometimes it's not so fast.

It might be junk food,or maybe it's natural food.

In any case,the style is all-American.

Words and Expressions：

nutrition expert promote statement

营养;营养品希赛网，行家促进;发扬声明;陈述

identity perceive aspect cuisine

物性感到，认识到方面烹饪，烹调风格

distinctive typically tend culinary

与从不同的，有物色的代表性地，作为物色的趋向，往往是厨房的，烹调用的

hamburger pizza thanksgiving turkey

牛肉饼;汉堡包比萨饼感恩节火鸡

immigrant cooking style ethnic

移民，侨民烹饪风格，时尚民族的

adopt version distinct sample

采用译文，译本截然不同的，独特的尝试

savory seafood gourmet grab

风味极佳的，可口的海产食品，海味美食家，美酒抓住

on the run microwave snap slice

匆匆忙忙微波容易方便的事薄片，切片

peanut jelly all-time treat

花生果子冻，一和果冻甜品空前的，创纪录的使人愉快的事

unhealthy snack additive illustration

不健康的小吃，快餐添加剂说明;例证

saying represent range background

谚语表现;描绘范围背景

reflect diversity

反射，反映差异，多样性

Exercises Section I Listening Comprehension：

Listen to the record.

Answer each question by choosing A,B,C or D from the four possible choices.

A

1.Good evening,what would you like,coffee,tea or the mineral water?

The last one.

2.This is 2.5 yuan,your change.

I like to give it to you as a tip.

3.I suggest we go to have kentucky fried chicken.

It's your favorite.I'd rather have Beijing roasted duck,anyway.

4.OK,6 yuan for 2 bottles of soda water.

3 yuan for a cup of coke.4.5 yuan for your coffee.

OK,here is a bill of 50 yuan.

5.I can't bear the smell in the kitchen,is the meat rotten?

No,you are wrong.It must be some eggs you bought last month.

B

Xiao Li and Jiang Li are ready to have lunch in a restaurant.

What would you like to have?

Er...It's hot today,I'd like to start with coke.

Ok,I'll have beer or wine?Er,beer,Ok,two bottles of beer.

Order your favorite dishes,please.

Ok,let me see.I like to shredded park and fried kidneys,what about you?

Braised beef and stewed eggplant.

I prefer the stewed eggplant too.

Any more?

Yeah,last time,we had strawberries here,today I want to have apricots.

Oh,a changable lady.I know that you prefer strawberries to apricots.Why...

I am watering at the sight of them.

OK,good.Rice?

Of course.

I have no idea why you like rice so much,frankly speaking,I like noodles.I'll have a bowl of noodles.

A typical man from the North.Ok,I'll have the rice,you,the"delicious"noodles.

Supplementary Reading The Incredible Potato

This is the vegetable that conquered the world:

the peasant's life support,the food lover's delight,nutritious,loved adn hated-the incredible potato,the amazing spud.

Among the first Europeans to see the plant the Indians called"papa"were Francisco Pizarro and his soldiers.

When they invaded Peru in the 1530s,

they were unaware of the buried treasure beneath their feet.

They rode roughly over the papa in hot pursuit of the Inca Emperor,

Atahualpa,and his gold.

Introduced into Eurpo over the next years,

the potato began four centuries of world conquest.

The Inca Empire has vanished.Spain's glory is only a memory.

The potato still survives.

Compared to the vast benefits this unusual plant has given to man,all the gold of Peru becomes worthless.

Today,the potato is produced in 130 of the world's 167 independent countries.

One year's crop,at consumer prices,is worth 106 billion dollars,more than the value of all the gold and silver the Spanish ever took out of the New World.

The average annual crop(29 million tons)could cover a four-lane superhighway circling the world six times.

The potato si so nutritious that a man in Scandinavia lived healthly for 300 days on only spuds covered with a bit of margarine.

It takes seven pounds of potatoes to tatal 2500 calories,the approximate adult daily requirement;so eating a spud without cream or butter is no more fattening than eating a pear-the potato itself is 99.9 percent fat free.

An acre of potatoes yields almost as much food as two acres of grain,and when the water that composes about 80 percent of potatoes is squeezed out,they provide annually more dry food than the combined world wide consumption of fish and meat.without potatoes,meat production would fall and meat prices rise;nearly half the world's crop is fed to animals.

What has made the potato a king among vegetables?

Fruitfulness,strength,nutritiousness and,above all,its many uses,which is why in India a man who can do anything is called"alu"-potato.

Nutritionists rate the quality of potato protein higher than of the soybean,and a single spud can supply half the daily Vitamin C requirement of an adult,a fact sea captains early guessed at when they carried potatoes to prevent disease among their crews.

If captain and crew had been cast away on an island with a sack of potatoes,they could have grown a ton of food within a year and survived.

With milk they could have held out indefinitely.

A potato crop is as well suited to home gardening as it is large-scale commercial production.

It may also become a useful source of energy in the decades to come,we may be burning potato gasohol in our cars.

When Henry Ford first got into the automobile business,he predicted the world would soon run out of cheap petroleum.

To make alochol,he ordered potatoes from Europe that were grown for industrial purposes,but the project was apparently disastrous.

The way things are going,it looks like Ford did have a better idea.

Researchers have shown that one acre of potatoes can yied 1200 gallons of pure alochol in a year.

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