Unit 2 Food, Glorious Food Active Reading 1
Reading and understanding
2. Choose the best way to complete the sentences 1. b 2. B. 3. a 4. a. 5. C Dealing with unfamiliar words
3. Match the words in the box with their definition
1. frank 2. resort 3. yummy 4. juicy 5. gloomy 6. innocence 7. perception 8. Nonsense
4. Replace the underlined words with the correct form of the words in the box
1 The waves were very large in size as they fell onto the beach. (enormous)
2 There was so much seafood that it was holding tightly onto the plate. (clinging) 3 In the area of land where they were visiting, it wasn’t usual to eat fish and chips. (region)
4 When he had eaten the shellfish, he got rid of the shells. (discarded)
5 To eat shellfish you need special tools to break open the shells and dig out the food. (implements; crack; scrape)
6 The boy was especially fond of his mother’s bread and cakes from the oven. (baking)
7 Because they’re smooth, wet and quite difficult to hold, it’s quite a challenge to try your first oysters. (slippery)
5. Answer the questions about the words in the box.
1 Which word means feeling? (emotion)
2 Which word means a feeling that a situation is so bad that there’s nothing you can do to change it? (despair)
3 Which word means to say you’re not happy with someone or something?(complain) 4 Which word describes how your face looks when you’re annoyed or worried about something? (frown)
5 Which word describes something that is unpleasant to taste, smell or see? (nasty)
6 Which word means to say something to someone in order to have fun by embarrassing or annoying them slightly? (tease)
Reading and interpreting 6. Check the true statements
The true statements are 1, 2, 4.
Talking point
Some words to express likes or dislikes of particular food items. Positive words: appetizing, delicious, exquisite, fabulous mouth-watering, tasty tempting
Negative words: bitter disgusting revolting
Either positive or negative: home-made (usually positive,) salty Savory, smooth, sour
Active reading (2)
Dealing with unfamiliar words
4. Answer the questions about the words and expressions in the box 1. more active 2. its features 3. the reason for it
4. made in a factory 5. help cause hormones to leave the brains 6. press it strongly 7. your parents 8. liquid 9. tell people
5. Replace the underlined words with the correct form of the words in the box.
(1) luxury (2) nourishing (3) mould (4) manufacturer (5) snap (6) condensed (7) flavour (8) popularity (9) genetic (10) trait
Language in use
word formation
3 Form new words with the following words and the prefixes / suffixes in the table.
air – airsick car – carsick fiction – non-fiction help – helpful sea – seasick shop – shopaholic smoker – non-smoker spoon – spoonful
stop – non-stop work – workaholic
4 Answer the questions with the words you formed in Activity 3.
What’s the word for:
1 how you feel if the sea makes you ill? (seasick) 2 someone who likes shopping a lot? (shopaholic)
3 what something is if it is useful and providing help? (helpful) 4 what a flight is if it goes directly from one place to another? (non-stop)
5 someone who doesn’t smoke? (non-smoker)
6 writing which is about real people and events, not imaginary ones? (non-fiction)
5 Translate the sentences into Chinese.
1 Outside the skies were grey and a strong wind was blowing off the sea. It looked as gloomy as I felt.
外面，天空灰蒙蒙的，海面上刮来一阵强风。天气看起来和我的心情一样阴郁。 2 “Now, stop complaining, try one oyster for me, then you can have something nice and easy to eat, maybe some prawns with bread and butter,” he suggested, striking a note of compromise for the first time during the whole meal.
“好啦，别抱怨了，就给我尝一只牡蛎，然后你就可以吃些好吃、顺口的东西，比如对虾加黄油面包。”他提议说。吃了这么长时间的饭，他的话中第一次有了妥协的意思。
3 But with the clear conception which only a ten-year-old boy can have, I still
understood that the compromise included eating that oyster, sitting on the side of my father’s plate.
但是，尽管清晰地感觉到了他的妥协——只有一个十岁的男孩才有这样的感觉，我仍然明白这妥协包含着吃掉那只牡蛎，那只放在我父亲的盘子边上的牡蛎。 4 The chocolate sets into bars which will easily snap into pieces and then melt in the mouth.
（添加了可可油后）巧克力凝固成易折断的条块，入口即化。
5 But what accounts for its amazing popularity or even the properties that have made millions of people confess to being chocaholics? 但是，是什么原因使得巧克力出奇地畅销？又是什么原因导致了巧克力的上瘾特性，使无数人承认自己是巧克力迷呢？
6 Translate the sentences into English.
1 他们这儿不卖薯条，如果你想吃，得去肯德基或麦当劳。(serve)
They don’t serve chips / French fries here. If you want them, you have to go to a KFC or McDonald’s.
2 他拣起一个核桃，想用锤子把它砸开，可没想到却把它砸碎了。(crack; crush)
He picked up a walnut and tried to crack it with a hammer, but instead he crushed it.
3 当金子加热融化后，他们把金水倒进模子，铸成金条。(melt; mould)
When the gold was heated and melted, they poured it into a mould to form a gold bar.
4 他承认是他打破了教室的窗玻璃。(admit to) He admitted to breaking the window of the classroom.
5 令我们欣喜的是，新的经济计划开始对经济发展产生积极影响。(have ? effect on) To our delight, the new economic policy is beginning to have a positive effect on the economy.
补充词语
egg pancake rolled up with fried dough sticks (煎饼果子), deep fried dough cake (油饼), baked pancake
(烧饼), stuffed pancake with Chinese chives (韭菜盒子), deep fried twisted dough sticks (油条), fried
cake (炸糕), soybean milk (豆浆), meat pies (肉馅饼), steamed meat / vegetable buns (肉包 / 菜包),
steamed buns (馒头), fried noodles / rice (炒面 / 炒饭), cold noodles (凉面), millet porridge (小米粥),
wonton (馄饨), dumpling (饺子), lightly fried dumpling (锅贴), soup dumpling (汤包 / 小笼包), shish
kebab (烤肉串), sweet dumpling with sesame paste (芝麻汤圆), toffee yam / apple (拔丝山药 / 拔丝苹
果), toffee hawthorn (冰糖葫芦)
补充翻译练习
请将下面一段话翻译成英语。
中国食品在世界上广受欢迎。由于中国人多数喜欢吃热餐和新鲜食品，中国菜大都是先煮现做的，如番茄炒蛋、凤爪冬菇汤等。有时你能闻者香味儿边看边等。这些美味有着浓郁的地方风味和极具地方特色的配料，它们有助于人的大脑释放出荷尔蒙，这些化学物质让我们感到幸福快乐，给我们安乐感。