Unit 9 Chinese FoodKey to the ExercisesText comprehensionI. Decide which of the following best states the main idea of the passage.B(This essay is by and large an illustration of a proposition raised by Kenneth Lo that food will determine one's physical strength and ultimately one's spiritual and moral fiber and well-being. Its aim and conclusion rest with the philosophy expressed in Chinese food.)II. Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.1. T (Refer to Paragraph 1.)2. T (Refer to Paragraph 2.)3. T (Refer to Paragraph 6.)4. F (Refer to Paragraph 7. According to Helen Burke, the cooking itself takes only 10% of the actual preparation but it is not a simple matter as indicated by the percentage of time it consumes.)5. T (Refer to Paragraph 9.)III. A nswer the following questions.1. Food and eating, according to Kenneth Lo, determines not only one's physical health but also one's spiritual and moral soundness and his ultimate well-being.2. Refer to Paragraphs 2, 3 and 4. According to the author, many people in the West are gourmets and gluttons, while a large number of others are pretty indifferent to food. On the contrary, Fu Tong, a London restaurateur, maintains that to Chinese people food is of primary importance and is one of the ecstasies of life. Also, when they go to a restaurant, Westerners care more about the table than the food, while the Chinese aim to eat with a capital E, or take the food with the utmost earnest.3. Refer to Paragraph 5. Literally, Chinese food is ubiquitous. Chinese restaurants have sprung up almost everywhere in the world. At the root of the phenomenal rise of Chinese food in the world is a strong interest in Chinese food in the West. There is an increase in sensuality in the Western world and coincidentally Chinese food is very sensual in its combination of color, texture and taste.4. Refer to Paragraphs 7 and 8. For Chinese people, the traditional high-quality Chinese meal is a serious matter. It is fastidiously prepared and fastidiously enjoyed. Both the preparation and enjoyment of a Chinese meal can last hours and make a shared experience which is well planned. The meal must not only meet the challenge of thepalate but also that of the eye.5. Refer to Paragraph 9. A good traditional Chinese meal must be well planned and balanced in order to meet the demand of the palate and the eye alike. So, according to Emily Hahn, there is moral excellence in good cooking, which implies the combination of all life, all action and all knowledge. So important is a meal that it is not simply the product of a recipe; it expresses the basic assumptions of life, among which is harmony and balance.IV. Explain in your own words the following sentences.1. Food to us Chinese is one of the greatest joys in life: it is thought about before being prepared; it is treated with lots of love and care while being prepared; and when it is ready, a great deal of time is devoted to enjoying it.2. The main reason for the sudden and tremendous popularity of Chinese food throughout the whole Western world lies in two facts: one is the increased desire for sensual pleasures (which is abundant in Chinese food) and freedom from age-old customs in the West; the other is the notion of physical pleasure provided by Chinese food, which is always ready to satisfy the taste of the eater.Structural analysis of the textParagraphs 7-9 constitute the third part of the text.Paragraph 7: The traditional quality Chinese meal is a serious matter, fastidiously prepared and fastidiously enjoyed.Paragraph 8: The enjoyment must match the preparation.Paragraph 9: The smooth harmonies and piquant contrasts in Chinese food are an expression of basic assumptions about life itself.Rhetorical features of the text1. All these have become much more part and parcel of the average person's life? (Paragraph 6)2. Meat and fish, solids and soups, sweet and sour sauces? (Paragraph 8)Vocabulary exercisesI. Explain the underlined part in each sentence in your own words.1. emotional strength to do what one believes to be right2. material used to produce power; sth. used to keep the body functioning3. lower-class type4. a number of dishes that are served one after another in an orderly way5. by themselvesII. Fill in the blank in each sentence with a word taken from the box in its appropriate form.1. fastidious2. ecstasies3. lavish4. elusive5. phenomenal6. proceeding7. enterprise 8. contrivedIII. F ill in the blanks with the appropriate forms of the given words.1. disregard2. authoritative3. ubiquity4. desirable5. piquancy6. ceremonially7. gluttonous 8. derivationIV. Fill in the blank(s) in each sentence with an appropriate phrasal verb or collocation taken from the text.1. come off2. conform to3. derives/derived, from4. attend to5. sprung up6. came about7. proceed with8. lavishing ... onV. Give a synonym or an antonym of the word underlined in each sentence in the sense it is used.1. Antonym: distantly (indifferently)2. Synonym: epicure3. Synonym: fundamental (primary, principal)4. Antonym: produce (make)5. Synonym: affirm (state)6. Synonym: mix (intermingle, combine)7. Synonym: change (modify, adjust)8. Synonym: provocative (sharp, pungent)VI. Explain the underlined phrasal verbs in your own words.1. explains2. accidentally found3. discuss with4. start5. played a prominent role in6. think about it carefully7. consumed part of8. interruptingGrammar exercisesI. Combine the sentences in each set into one, beginning with the words given.1. Lev Tolstoy, a great Russian writer, was born in 1828 and died in 1910.2. My proposal that we should import more equipment from abroad is to be discussed at the meeting.3. The news that she is invited to the party is very encouraging.4. The Canadian surgeon Dr. Norman Bethune, a great international fighter, laid down his life for the Chinese revolution.5. In spite of the fact that they worked day and night on the project, they failed to find out the mechanism of the disease.6. The announcement that all flights were cancelled because of bad weather greatly distressed the waiting passengers.7. Mike, the best mechanic in the garage, worked on my car.8. The amateur boat-builder was constructing a simple model, a small outboard cruiser of conventional design.II. Improve the following sentences by using appositive clauses.1. Our word tobacco comes from the Spanish word tobaco, a word which means "cigar" in the Arawak Indian language. (An appositive may repeat a noun for the sake of clarity and emphasis.)2. Columbus's crew was astonished to find the Arawaks puffing on huge cigars in Hispaniola, an island which is now divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic.3. The cigars were made from Nicotiana tobacum, a hybrid of two wild plants first grown in Peru and Bolivia.4. This tobacco from Hispaniola was not the kind smoked by the other Indians of North America, habitual users of tobacco, also.5. This second and much more widely used kind of tobacco was Nicotiana rustica, a hybrid that is native only to the western slopes of the Andes.6. From here its cultivation and use spread into North America at about the same time as the cultivation of maize, a staple grain crop.7. Archaeologists find the first pipes among Indian artifacts at the level that they find the first evidence of maize cultivation, a fact which suggests that the Indians learned to smoke and to grow corn at the same time.8. This tobacco was so strong that the Algonkians mixed it with sumac leaves and the inner bark of the dogwood and called it kinnikinnik, a word meaning "that which is mixed."9. Most Indians favoured pipes, some ate tobacco leaves, some drank tobacco, and still others preferred cigarettes, shredded tobacco wrapped in corn husks.10. "Drinking tobacco" became popular in Elizabethan England after 1565, the year the leaf was first imported from the West Indies.III. Complete each sentence with what you think the most appropriate of the four choices given.1. C (When the antecedent contains such, the relative word is as.)2. B (Eye means "the power of seeing; appreciative or discriminating visual perception.")3. D4. A (In the structure too + adj. + to, we use a/an + n. after the adjective.)5. B (Machinery is a collective noun.)6. A (ear = attention, heed)7. C (brains = intellectual power, intelligence)8. BIV. Rewrite the following sentences using the words in brackets.1. He was less frightened than hurt.2. Their room is no bigger than ours.3. George did more work than anyone else.4. Dick's behavior is more courteous than Bob's.5. I paid three times more for the food than they did. (As much as and as many as are equivalent to more ?than when they are premodified by a times-phrase.)6. A collection of facts cannot be called science any more than a pile of bricks can be called a house.7. A whale is no more a fish than a horse is.8. He is more of a sportsman than his brother.V. Translate the following into English, using the expressions in brackets.1. That noise is more than I can bear.2. We are more than happy to help you in any way we can.3. No less than a thousand people participated in the marathon.4. He is no more interested in chemistry than his brother is.5. It is more a poem than a picture.6. He was accused of no less a crime than high treason.VI. Make sentences of your own after the sentences given below, keeping the italicized parts in your sentences.1. e.g. He never remembered to have known such weariness as he felt now.The explorer took only such men and things as he really needed into the jungle with him.2. e.g. He is not just an actor but also a great writer.She not just sings like an angel, but also dances divinely.Translation exercisesI. Translate the following sentences into Chinese.1. 决定他们体力直至情操气节、健康安乐的东西，又怎能不关心呢？2. 事实上，人们颇有理由可以说，中国食品已经成为当今唯一真正意义上的国际性食品。