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1Unit Food Vocabulary Preview
Before You Read A Choose the correct word for each definition.
Pre-reading Questions guest elder serve practice funeral
1. Do you know what you should or shouldn’t do at a traditional Chinese dinner? nomad store grain lifestyle related
2. Do you think there is a connection between one’s lifestyle and the food they eat?
3. What do you think the oldest people on Earth usually ate? 1. lifestyle : n. the way a person lives or a group of people live
10 Chapter 1 Life 2. nomad : n. a member of a group of people who move according to the seasons
3. serve : v. to give someone food or drink
4. elder : n. someone who is older than you in your family or community
5. guest : n. someone who is invited to a place or an event
6. grain : n. the seeds of plants such as rice, wheat, and corn
7. store : v. to keep things until you need them
8. practice : v. to use a particular method or custom
9. funeral : n. a ceremony held for a dead person
10. related : a. connected with something or someone in some way
B Match each of the vocabulary words with the correct synonym.
Vocabulary Word Synonym
1. update • • a. obey, follow, keep
2. produce • • b. customary, conventional
3. convenient • • c. useful, handy, helpful
4. observe • • d. renew, revise, upgrade
5. traditional • • e. yield, make, create
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Unit 1 READING 1
I f you’re at a traditional Chinese dinner, you 1 What is the best title for the passage?
should practice good manners. That’s because Chinese Funeral Practices
Chinese culture strictly observes more dining The Use of Chopsticks in Different Cultures
rules than most other cultures do. For example,
no one may sit down to eat until the guests take a ✔ Table Manners in China
seat. Furthermore, no one may begin eating How to Eat Food with Chopsticks
before any elders eat. At Chinese meals, you
should use only chopsticks for eating, and there 2 Which is NOT true according to the passage?
are many rules for them. For instance, don’t wave At Chinese meals, the guests take a seat first.
them or point them at people. Also, don’t pass or serve food with them. At Chinese meals, you should eat after any elders begin eating.
Here’s an interesting rule: never leave chopsticks standing in a bowl of rice. Chinese people use only chopsticks for eating.
Chinese do this only at funerals to offer the rice to the dead person!
✔ Chinese people usually leave chopsticks standing in a bowl.
3 What does the word this refer to?
Using chopsticks for eating
Pointing at people with chopsticks
✔ Leaving chopsticks standing in cooked rice
Offering the rice to the dead person
4 The word observes is closest in meaning to
watches
✔ keeps
notices
orders
Visualize the Text
Complete the map with the words from the passage.
English Usage Chinese Table Manners
• That’s because ~ Don’t sit down to eat until the guests take a seat.
Finally, my dream came true. That’s because I never gave up.
Don’t begin eating before any elders eat.
• No one ~ until …
No one recognized me until I took off the mask. Don’t wave chopsticks or point them at people.
12 Chapter 1 Life Don’t pass or serve food with chopsticks .
Never leave chopsticks standing in a bowl of rice.
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Unit 1 READING 2
H ey, everyone. Sorry I haven’t 1 What is the main idea of the passage?
updated my blog in a while. Nomads prepared their food differently.
People must store most of their food.
Anyway, I was reading about different
✔ There is a link between lifestyles and foods.
cultures and learned that lifestyles and People eat unhealthy meals because they are busy.
foods are related. The oldest groups of 2 Which is NOT true according to the passage?
Nomads usually ate meat.
people on Earth lived as nomads. They
✔ Farmers moved around to raise their animals.
were hunters at first and then began Farmers had to store grains and vegetables.
People today are too busy to cook their own food.
moving their animals to different grassland. These people had to kill and
3 Where can you find this passage?
cook animals every day. Later on, as people began growing their own food, in a food magazine
in a history book
they could produce large amounts for the winter. These farmers stored lots on a school board
of grains and vegetables. , they didn’t have to move ✔ on the Internet blog
around anymore. How about these days? Most people are so busy that they 4 Which linking word best fills in the blank?
✔ Therefore
don’t have time to cook. They just buy quick and convenient fast food. Instead
However
For example
Summarize the Text
Complete the summary with the words in the box.
English Usage grew their own food moved with their animals enjoy cooking
• so + adjective[adverb] + that subject + can’t … stored grains and vegetables lived in the same area don’t have time to cook
= too + adjective[adverb] to ...
I am so tired that I can’t go shopping with you. The oldest people on Earth were nomads. They from place to
= I am too tired to go shopping with you.
place. Later on, people . They didn’t have to move around
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anymore. That’s because they . Today most people are so busy
that they . They just buy convenient fast food.
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1Unit Food Vocabulary Preview
Before You Read A Choose the correct word for each definition.
Pre-reading Questions guest elder serve practice funeral
1. Do you know what you should or shouldn’t do at a traditional Chinese dinner? nomad store grain lifestyle related
2. Do you think there is a connection between one’s lifestyle and the food they eat?
3. What do you think the oldest people on Earth usually ate? 1. lifestyle : n. the way a person lives or a group of people live
10 Chapter 1 Life 2. nomad : n. a member of a group of people who move according to the seasons
3. serve : v. to give someone food or drink
4. elder : n. someone who is older than you in your family or community
5. guest : n. someone who is invited to a place or an event
6. grain : n. the seeds of plants such as rice, wheat, and corn
7. store : v. to keep things until you need them
8. practice : v. to use a particular method or custom
9. funeral : n. a ceremony held for a dead person
10. related : a. connected with something or someone in some way
B Match each of the vocabulary words with the correct synonym.
Vocabulary Word Synonym
1. update • • a. obey, follow, keep
2. produce • • b. customary, conventional
3. convenient • • c. useful, handy, helpful
4. observe • • d. renew, revise, upgrade
5. traditional • • e. yield, make, create
Unit 1 Food 11
Unit 1 READING 1
I f you’re at a traditional Chinese dinner, you 1 What is the best title for the passage?
should practice good manners. That’s because Chinese Funeral Practices
Chinese culture strictly observes more dining The Use of Chopsticks in Different Cultures
rules than most other cultures do. For example,
no one may sit down to eat until the guests take a ✔ Table Manners in China
seat. Furthermore, no one may begin eating How to Eat Food with Chopsticks
before any elders eat. At Chinese meals, you
should use only chopsticks for eating, and there 2 Which is NOT true according to the passage?
are many rules for them. For instance, don’t wave At Chinese meals, the guests take a seat first.
them or point them at people. Also, don’t pass or serve food with them. At Chinese meals, you should eat after any elders begin eating.
Here’s an interesting rule: never leave chopsticks standing in a bowl of rice. Chinese people use only chopsticks for eating.
Chinese do this only at funerals to offer the rice to the dead person!
✔ Chinese people usually leave chopsticks standing in a bowl.
3 What does the word this refer to?
Using chopsticks for eating
Pointing at people with chopsticks
✔ Leaving chopsticks standing in cooked rice
Offering the rice to the dead person
4 The word observes is closest in meaning to
watches
✔ keeps
notices
orders
Visualize the Text
Complete the map with the words from the passage.
English Usage Chinese Table Manners
• That’s because ~ Don’t sit down to eat until the guests take a seat.
Finally, my dream came true. That’s because I never gave up.
Don’t begin eating before any elders eat.
• No one ~ until …
No one recognized me until I took off the mask. Don’t wave chopsticks or point them at people.
12 Chapter 1 Life Don’t pass or serve food with chopsticks .
Never leave chopsticks standing in a bowl of rice.
Unit 1 Food 13
Unit 1 READING 2
H ey, everyone. Sorry I haven’t 1 What is the main idea of the passage?
updated my blog in a while. Nomads prepared their food differently.
People must store most of their food.
Anyway, I was reading about different
✔ There is a link between lifestyles and foods.
cultures and learned that lifestyles and People eat unhealthy meals because they are busy.
foods are related. The oldest groups of 2 Which is NOT true according to the passage?
Nomads usually ate meat.
people on Earth lived as nomads. They
✔ Farmers moved around to raise their animals.
were hunters at first and then began Farmers had to store grains and vegetables.
People today are too busy to cook their own food.
moving their animals to different grassland. These people had to kill and
3 Where can you find this passage?
cook animals every day. Later on, as people began growing their own food, in a food magazine
in a history book
they could produce large amounts for the winter. These farmers stored lots on a school board
of grains and vegetables. , they didn’t have to move ✔ on the Internet blog
around anymore. How about these days? Most people are so busy that they 4 Which linking word best fills in the blank?
✔ Therefore
don’t have time to cook. They just buy quick and convenient fast food. Instead
However
For example
Summarize the Text
Complete the summary with the words in the box.
English Usage grew their own food moved with their animals enjoy cooking
• so + adjective[adverb] + that subject + can’t … stored grains and vegetables lived in the same area don’t have time to cook
= too + adjective[adverb] to ...
I am so tired that I can’t go shopping with you. The oldest people on Earth were nomads. They from place to
= I am too tired to go shopping with you.
place. Later on, people . They didn’t have to move around
14 Chapter 1 Life
anymore. That’s because they . Today most people are so busy
that they . They just buy convenient fast food.
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