LET’S GET COOKING!
Britain is not
known as a nation of good cooking ,but somebody it may be known as a nation of
good cooks .The Ministry of Education is discussing plans to introduce
compulsory cooking classes for all 11 to14---year---olds.
For years, people
in Britain
and in order countries have been worried about the problem of children getting
fatter eating too much fast food.. Part of the reason is that young people don’t
know how much about healthy food and few of them know how to cook a nutritious
meal . Having cooking lessons n school will teach children a life skill that
used to be learned at home ,but today selare ten cooking shows available and
they all get good ratings .They are filling a hunger that people have for knowledge
about what ingredients go into a delicious dish and how that dish can be cooked
,They are also discovering that cooking can be fun.
One show in
particular ,delicacies on a journey ,became a mouth watering favorite over the
spring festival because in combined travel and food .Each episode featured a
different region in China and professional chef demonstrated how to cook one of
the local delicacies . What better way to discover China than through its cuisine!
But you don’t have
to travel to faraway places or watch TV to learn about cooking. There is a
place in your home called the kitchen where ,with a litter effort ,you can
discover all you need to know about cooking by watching your mother or father
as they prepare meals. You can ask them questions about the ingredients they use
,where they buy them ,and the best way to cook them .
Some day ,when you
are far from mom’s home cooking ,you will have to feed yourself. Knowing how to
cook is an important life skill that will keep you healthy and fill you with
the satisfaction of eating a good meal .It’s something you should think about ….um,
food for thought ,as they say.
Questions:
1. why Britain someday will may be know as a nation of good cooks?
2. what’s a better way to discover China
?
3. does people interested in eating well?\
4. why knowing how to cook is an important
life skill ?

The Touchstone
　　When the
great library of Alexandria
was burned, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book, so a poor man,
who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers.
　　The book
wasn’t very interesting, but between its pages there was something that caught
his eyes. It was a thin strip of vellum(精制皮纸)on which the secret of the “Touchstone”was written!
　　The
touchstone was a small pebble that could turn any common metal into pure gold.
The writing explained that it was lying among hundreds and thousands of other
pebbles that looked exactly the same. But there was something different: the
touchstone felt warm, while ordinary pebbles were cold.
　　So the man
sold all of his belongings, packed some supplies, camped on the seashore, and
began the mission of looking for the touchstone.
　　He knew that
if he picked up cold, ordinary pebbles and put them back, he might repeat
picking up the same ones time and again. So, every time he found a cold one, he
threw it into the sea. He spent a whole day picking up pebbles, but none of
them was the touchstone. Yet he went on and on this way. Pick up a pebble. Throw
it into the sea. Pick up another. Throw it into the sea.
　　The days
stretched into weeks and the weeks into months. One day, however, about mid-afternoon,
he picked up a pebble and it was warm. But he threw it into the sea before he
realized what he had done. He had formed such a strong habit of throwing each
pebble into the sea that when the one he wanted came along, he threw it away
anyway.
　　So it is
with opportunity. Unless we are vigilant, it’s easy to fail to recognize an
opportunity when it is in hand and it’s just as easy to throw it away.
Thinking:
It’s easy for anyone to make a habit, but
it may make your eyes blind to find some chances.
So as the man in the story, he made a habit
of throwing each pebble into the sea. That habit made him fail to get the
touchstone and threw it away as well. If he hasn’t got used to doing it, he
will possibly become a rich man. But he failed to do it because of his
carelessness. In our daily life, bad habits will also let us do such stupid
decisions. So do not let any habit to hinder your behavior. That is the best
way for you to get your own achievement.

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