Unit 7 Food Festival 任务型阅读（含解析）仁爱版 八年级下册英语题型专项集训

Unit 7 Food Festival 任务型阅读（含解析）仁爱版 八年级下册英语题型专项集训 阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题。 The hot pot(火锅) is one of the most popular meals in China. It has a long history of about 2,000 years. It used to be eaten in winter, but now it appears on tables all year round. Apart from(除……之外) its delicious taste, there are two other important reasons for the Chinese to like the hot pot. The first one is that the hot pot is a great way to make new friends. People sit around the pot, talking, eating, drinking and having fun. The other is that the hot pot is a “healthy meal”. Eating the hot pot can warm the body and improve the blood movement in winter. There are several kinds of hot pots in China with different soup. Two of the most popular hot pots are Sichuan hot pot and Beijing mutton hot pot. Sichuan hot pot is famous for its numbing and spicy(又麻又辣的) taste because of Sichuan pepper. As for Beijing mutton hot pot, mutton is its main part. When you eat a hot pot in a restaurant, there are usually two kinds of soup base(锅底): clear and spicy. A clear soup base has a quite mild(温和的) taste, which is made from seafood or meat bones. A spicy soup base usually has Sichuan pepper, which is spicy and salty. If you have a mixed group, a double-flavor hot pot(鸳鸯锅) is a must. It has a clear soup base on one side, a spicy soup base on the other and a divider in the middle. 1．When did the hot pot appear in Chinese history 2．How many reasons are mentioned(提到) for the Chinese to like the hot pot 3．What kinds of hot pots do Chinese people love most 4．Why is Sichuan hot pot so numbing and spicy 5．Is it necessary for a group with different tastes to choose a double-flavor hot pot People don’t always go to coffee shops just for a drink, but to spend time with friends or read a book. This “coffee shop culture” is very popular in the UK and it is a fantastic way to spend time with loved ones. It isn’t popular everywhere, though. There are around 15,000 coffee shops in the UK. On the main street of my home city, Edinburgh, there are at least five quite large coffee shops. It will never be more than a five or ten minutes’ walk to the nearest café. Most coffee shops are places where you can sit for hours as you sip your coffee. People go with friends and family to chat and relax after going shopping or meet up just for a gossip. Alternatively, many people go alone. Coffee shops are great places to read in peace, or to sit and write. And with free Wi-Fi in many places, it is not difficult to spend a lot of time in a coffee shop. In Colombia, however, the coffee shop culture does not really exist（存在）, or, at least, is still very new. The coffee shops are far away. Nobody spends the afternoon enjoying a peaceful moment. People never seem to come in for a drink but for a quick meeting, even if they are with family or friends. The idea that a person would go to a coffee shop alone is strange. Every time I go alone with a ... ...