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M: What's all that? Are you going to make a salad?
W: No I'm going to make a gazpacho.
M: What's that?
W: (1)Gazpacho is a cold soup from Spain. It’s mostly vegetables. I guess you could call it a liquid salad.
M: Cold soup? Sounds weird.
W: It's delicious. Trust me. I tried it for the first time during my summer vacation in Spain. You see, in the south of Spain, it gets very hot in the summer, up to 40°C. So a cold gazpacho is very refreshing. The main ingredients are tomato, cucumber, bell peppers, olive oil and stale bread.
M: Stale bread? Surely you mean bread for dipping into the soup?
W: No. Bread is crushed and blended in like everything else. (2)It adds texture and thickness to the soup.
M: Mm. (3-1)And is it healthy?
W: (3-2)Sure. As I said earlier it's mostly vegetables. You can also add different things if you like, such as hard-boiled egg or cured ham.
M: Cured ham? What’s that?
W: That's another Spanish delicacy. Have you never heard of it? It is quite famous.
M: no, is it good too?
W: Oh, yeah, definitely. It’s amazing. It’s a little dry and salty, and it's very expensive because (4)it comes from a special type of pig that only eats a special type of food. The harm is covered in salt to dry and preserve it. And left to hang for up to 2 years, it has a very distinct flavor.
M: Mm. Sounds interesting. Where can I find some?
W: It used to be difficult to get Spanish produce here. But it's now a lot more common. Most large supermarket chains have cured ham in little packets but in Spain you combine a whole leg.
M: A whole peg leg? Why would anybody want so much ham?
W: In Spain, many people buy a whole leg for special group events, such as Christmas. They cut it themselves into very thin slices with a long flat knife.
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预览四道题各选项,由 salad、soup、 vegetable、pig、 bread等词可以初步推测,对话内容与饮食有 关;再结合8 panish, nutritious、 ingredient、 cooking、 special等词可以进一步推测,对话内容涉及某种或某几种 西班牙特色食品,并且讨论了食品的制作过程、营养成分等问题。
详解详析
1. What do we learn about gazpacho?
对话中，女士清楚地解释说gazpacho是西班牙的一种冷菜汤。虽然接下来女士对男士说把gazpacho理解为一种液体沙拉也是可以的，但这只是为了让男士对gazpacho有更直观的认识，不能认定为gazpacho是沙拉。因此答案为B）。
2. For what purpose is stale bread mixed into gazpacho?
对话中女士说，往汤里加入干面包是为了让汤口感更好，更浓稠。因此答案为A）。
3. Why does the woman think gazpacho is healthy?
对话中，当男士问这种汤是否健康时，女士十分肯定地说它很健康，因为这种汤是以蔬菜为主要原料制作而成的。因此答案为D）。
4. What does the woman say about cured ham?
对话中，女士给男士解释cured ham时说，这是另一种西班牙美食。后面又提到这种腌制的火腿非常昂贵，因为它取自一种特殊品种的猪，而且这种猪只吃一种特殊的食物。因此答案为C）。