新视界大学英语综合教程1答案02.pptxVIP

;Warming up;Warming up;;;1 Where is the writer’s boyfriend from?;;;Skimming;Skimming;Skimming;1 It’s a chilly winter evening, two hours after we arrive from New York, and we’re with my friends in a Sichuan hotpot restaurant in Beijing. It’s a typically warm, noisy, energetic place, and I have a comfortable feeling about being back in China. A waitress places a hotpot in front of us, and lights the gas. As we investigate its contents, the bubbling steam and spices rise, and our faces go red with the heat and the expectation of our favorite food.;2 Well, nearly all of us. My boyfriend has come with me for a brief stay, his first visit to China, and I’ve sworn to give him some typical Sichuan food. He looks a bit confused, maybe because he’s exhausted after the flight.;3 One of my Chinese friends hands me the menu and asks me to order. The waitress brings plates of raw food, thin slices of beef and lamb, piles of mushrooms, plentiful amounts of certain vegetables which Westerners would find unusual, as well as some slippery bits of meat which are hard to identify and which we wouldn’t even think of eating in the US.;4 I explain that the stock in one side of the hotpot is fairly mild, and that the other side contains liquid fire, full of peppers, which needs to be treated with respect. Then I explain how to plunge the ingredients in the boiling stock, cook them and then dip them in the different sauces before eating.;5 Soon we’re all helping ourselves to the food, serving each other the tastiest pieces, chatting about what we’ve been doing during the vacation. But my boyfriend’s plate is empty and I see him picking out slice after slice, looking at each one, and then putting it back in the hotpot.;6 “What are you looking for?” I ask. 7 He looks puzzled, “How do the others recognize which slices they put in? How do I manage to pick out the exact slices I put in?” 8 When we stop laughing, I realize he’s serious. ;译文;10 “Now what’s up?” I ask. “You’