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My mom gave me some wise advice: “Nothing beats a good bite that bites back.” She was talking about her 1 for bitter-tasting food like rhubarb (大黄).

Mom’s rhubarb plant is at the east of our 2 . Grandma moved it there from the farm. 3 I’ve always regarded it as an overgrown weed.

We kept the largest garden in the neighborhood. Each growing season, we 4 the plentiful rhubarb, tomatoes, beans and carrots with our neighbors and friends. More families took the rhubarb than any other fruit.

Nearly three years ago, while 5 Mom’s flower bed, I finally asked if I could dig out her rhubarb. 6 , she didn’t bake with it anymore. “Absolutely not,” Mom said. Clearly I hadn’t 7 her devotion to it.

As I continued weeding, I thought about how rhubarb is one of the 8 plants to appear in early spring. It breaks through the snowy, icy ground before buds (芽) form on trees. How can anyone fail to 9 such a passionate desire?

When those first sprouts (嫩芽) 10 , I’d find Mom outdoors, examining them like a 11 counting a newborn’s fingers and toes. She would estimate about how long it’d be until she could make her rhubarb 12 .

But when I was a kid and she gave me that pie, it made me 13 . In my teens, it made me complain. 14 ice cream did not sweeten the deal for my young taste buds. Rhubarb was something to be 15 at all costs.

Then, last summer, I searched for Mom’s 16 . I found the one for her rhubarb pie. So I 17 to give it a try. A few tries later, I 18 rhubarb pie to family and guests. It tasted incredible.

Since then I’ve come to two 19 about rhubarb. First, you can take rhubarb out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the rhubarb. And second, rhubarb’s taste may be lost on children, but adults can 20 it. Like my wise mother, I now understand that “Nothing beats a good bite that bites back.”

1. A. effort B. love C. hope D. regret

2. A. garden B. farm C. house D. country

3. A. So B. And C. But D. Or

4. A. planted B. prepared C. collected D. shared

5. A. weeding B. making C. examining D. digging

6. A. As usual B. As a result

C. Above all D. After all

7. A. noticed B. understood C. followed D. ignored

8. A. first B. last C. strange D. common

9. A. miss B. question C. admire D. challenge

10. A. survived B. stayed C. dropped D. appeared

11. A. parent B. child C. doctor D. friend

12. A. dish B. pie C. soup D. salad

13. A. laugh B. cry C. cheerful D. peaceful

14. A. Only B. Just C. Even D. Yet

15. A. obtained B. gathered C. valued D. avoided

16. A. recipe B. advice C. notebook D. secret

17. A. refused B. agreed C. decided D. hesitated

18. A. taught B. served C. passed D. showed

19. A. theories B. ideas C. conclusions D. suggestions

20. A. sense B. trust C. discover D. appreciate

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I went to Mastro’s, carrying several pounds of newspapers that I hoped to have read by the time I asked for the check. I 1 read a word.

While Mastro’s has much to recommend it – prime beef, top-shelf drinks, live music seven nights a week – 2 lighting is not on the menu. The steakhouse is 3 , with darker curtains blocking all but a bit of natural light. When I expressed 4 to my waiter, he brought me a table lamp. It shone with the force of a single birthday candle.

Let there be 5 ! No matter where my reservations take me of late, I’m reminded that dim (微弱的) lighting is the new noisy dining room. The first thing I did when I 6 at the modern Japanese restaurant Momotaro in Chicago this past spring was pull out my iPhone to 7 the menu. Going down the stairs of Pepe le Moko, one of my favorite bars in Portland, I wanted to 8 a flashlight.

Don’t get me wrong. 9 lighting takes years off faces and adds romance, and even mystery, to a setting.

10 zero-level lighting doesn’t do justice to the artists whose food and drink can’t be 11 appreciated by diners. As more than a few good 12 have told me over the years, “people eat first with their 13 .” Yet I have left the table of too many restaurants and bars without much idea of what they 14 .

The fine print (极小的字体) used on some menus only makes the problem 15 . If I can’t read them, 16 can’t be expected to run through the entire list by memory, and diners don’t want a word-for-word 17 .

Proper lighting can also help restaurant-goers eat within their 18 . At Mastro’s, only with the aid of my glasses, some squinting (眯眼) and a lamp was I able to 19 that a single glass of the 2012 Frank Family cabernet sauvignon cost $35 (233 yuan). I settled for (满足于) something … 20 .

1. A. shouldn’t B. couldn’t C. hadn’t D. mustn’t

2. A. gentle B. strong C. natural D. proper

3. A. noisy B. mysterious C. dark D. modern

4. A. sadness B. concern C. confusion D. interest

5. A. silence B. hope C. service D. light

6. A. had dinner B. looked around

C. met friends D. sat down

7. A. read B. find C. search D. compare

8. A. look into B. ask for C. put away D. make up

9. A. Bright B. Good C. Soft D. Adequate

10. A. But B. And C. So D. For

11. A. partly B. fully C. gradually D. quickly

12. A. customers B. waiters C. cooks D. partners

13. A. eyes B. hands C. tongues D. teeth

14. A. deliver B. perform C. require D. practice

15. A. rarer B. better C. clearer D. worse

16. A. diners B. people C. cleaners D. waiters

17. A. book B. recitation C. comment D. suggestion

18. A. power B. control C. budget D. distance

19. A. make sense B. make sure C. write down D. get out

20. A. sweeter B. more expensive

C. lighter D. more common

名人语录

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

By Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882, American thinker,

author and poet)

你生气的每一分钟都使你丧失了六十秒钟的快乐。

——拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生

轻松一刻

Kelly’s school has a policy that the parents must call the school if a student is to be absent for the day. Kelly, deciding to skip school and go hiking with her friends, calls the school herself.

Kelly: Hi, I’m calling to report that Kelly is unable to make it to school today because she is ill.

Secretary at high school: Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. I’ll note her absence. Who is this calling?

Kelly: This is my mother.