科目:初中英语 来源:2013届北京市顺义区九年级上学期期末考试英语试卷(带解析) 题型:阅读理解
Feeding a crowd of hundreds doesn’t make Kenny Seals-Nutt nervous.
In fact, he thrives in the kitchen. He’s in his perfect place when dicing tomatoes, making salads and baking cakes.
By the time Kenny, 16, reached his third year of high school at Hickory Grove, North Carolina, US, he had become vice president of his school’s cooking club. He also opened his own food company, called Modern Fusion.
Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his mother, and his grandmother, who owned a catering (饮食业) business herself. Kenny helped them both in order to remember their tips: how long to cook chicken so it stays wet, and the right amount of tomatoes to add to a spaghetti dish.
At the age of 5, he cooked his first dish of shrimp and broccoli. Taking it for his school lunch, he warmed it up in the school’s microwave, while the other kids ate their sandwiches.
“I love to eat, and it started to become more fun to cook than to use a microwave,” he said.
Cooking came easy to Kenny, and he enjoyed adding new ingredients into common dishes. “It started with a passion (热情) and I wanted to know more,” he said. He began to watch the Food Network and read chef blogs.
Last summer, Kenny put his skills to the test by working with his grandmother to cater his uncle’s wedding. While she cooked traditional dishes, Kenny wanted to add new to the expected flavors (风味).
Now Kenny spends his weekends catering his own events: weddings, birthday parties, baby showers. Kenny’s dishes are always a hit.
Chef Frederick Mookie Hicks, owner of a catering business, said Kenny’s success comes from his ability to multitask in the kitchen. Hicks said he has asked Kenny to cook with him on jobs three times now, and he presents Kenny as a positive example of a passionate chef to the students in his cooking classes.
“He’s so vigorous (精神饱满的) about cooking that he doesn’t let anything stop him,” Hicks said. “I knew in the first five minutes of working with the kid that he is something special.”
【小题1】How is Kenny different from other students?
A.He opened a cooking club in his high school. |
B.He is famous on the Food Network. |
C.He owned a food company at 16. |
D.He loves to multi-task. |
A.works energetic | B.grows fast |
C.learns quickly | D.makes progress |
A.Traditional. | B.Creative. |
C.Simple. | D.Strange. |
A.Kenny proved himself by catering his uncle’s wedding alone |
B.Kenny likes to follow his mother’s recipe when cooking |
C.Kenny was able to cook his first dish in primary school |
D.Kenny’s success in cooking has a lot to do with his family |
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科目:初中英语 来源:2012-2013学年北京市顺义区九年级上学期期末考试英语试卷(解析版) 题型:阅读理解
Feeding a crowd of hundreds doesn’t make Kenny Seals-Nutt nervous.
In fact, he thrives in the kitchen. He’s in his perfect place when dicing tomatoes, making salads and baking cakes.
By the time Kenny, 16, reached his third year of high school at Hickory Grove, North Carolina, US, he had become vice president of his school’s cooking club. He also opened his own food company, called Modern Fusion.
Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his mother, and his grandmother, who owned a catering (饮食业) business herself. Kenny helped them both in order to remember their tips: how long to cook chicken so it stays wet, and the right amount of tomatoes to add to a spaghetti dish.
At the age of 5, he cooked his first dish of shrimp and broccoli. Taking it for his school lunch, he warmed it up in the school’s microwave, while the other kids ate their sandwiches.
“I love to eat, and it started to become more fun to cook than to use a microwave,” he said.
Cooking came easy to Kenny, and he enjoyed adding new ingredients into common dishes. “It started with a passion (热情) and I wanted to know more,” he said. He began to watch the Food Network and read chef blogs.
Last summer, Kenny put his skills to the test by working with his grandmother to cater his uncle’s wedding. While she cooked traditional dishes, Kenny wanted to add new to the expected flavors (风味).
Now Kenny spends his weekends catering his own events: weddings, birthday parties, baby showers. Kenny’s dishes are always a hit.
Chef Frederick Mookie Hicks, owner of a catering business, said Kenny’s success comes from his ability to multitask in the kitchen. Hicks said he has asked Kenny to cook with him on jobs three times now, and he presents Kenny as a positive example of a passionate chef to the students in his cooking classes.
“He’s so vigorous (精神饱满的) about cooking that he doesn’t let anything stop him,” Hicks said. “I knew in the first five minutes of working with the kid that he is something special.”
1.How is Kenny different from other students?
A.He opened a cooking club in his high school.
B.He is famous on the Food Network.
C.He owned a food company at 16.
D.He loves to multi-task.
2.What does the underlined word “thrives” probably mean?
A.works energetic B.grows fast
C.learns quickly D.makes progress
3.Which of the following best describes Kenny’s cooking?
A.Traditional. B.Creative.
C.Simple. D.Strange.
4.We can conclude from the article that ______.
A.Kenny proved himself by catering his uncle’s wedding alone
B.Kenny likes to follow his mother’s recipe when cooking
C.Kenny was able to cook his first dish in primary school
D.Kenny’s success in cooking has a lot to do with his family
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Why Can’t Chicken Fly?
Long long ago, when the birds flew over the world, they saw that man had a beautiful thing. It was a bright burning thing. Man cooked their food and kept themselves warm with it. The birds thought life would be better if they could have this thing , too. So they decided to send a messenger (使者) to man to ask for a little piece of it. They thought chicken was a good one to send because he was a good talker. So chicken went.
He flew far over the forest until he came to the towns of man. He went into a town and saw the burning things. He learned that it was called “fire”. He did not ask for a piece of it to take to the birds because there was so much food lying around man’s houses that he started eating and forgot what he came for.
Man like chicken because he crowed very early in the morning and woke them up. They let him run in and out of their houses. They throw him food. So chicken stayed with man. He never went back to the birds. He even forgot how to fly.
( ) 1. When the birds flew over the world, they saw ___________.
A. beautiful forest B. a burning thing
C. a messenger D. chicken
( ) 2. The birds decided to send a messenger to ask man ____________.
A. for a little piece of burning things B. what the burning things was
C. for some food to eat D. to come to the birds
( ) 3. The birds sent chicken to human because they thought he ________.
A. could fly far over the forest B. knew man in the town very well
C. could crow very well D. was good at talking
( ) 4. Chicken _________, so man liked him.
A. wouldn’t go back to the birds B. was clever enough
C. woke him up very early in the morning D. was very busy
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