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B.Answer Questions
1. Japanese rice is one ingredient in Sushi.
2. Thailand and Malaysia are countries that share borders.
3. I would recommend Mango with Sticky rice to my friends.
4. Purple is a color that appeals to me.
5. Soft sunlight with gray clouds is the kind of weather that suits me.
Vocab Building
1.a recommendation. b reccomended
2.a accompanies b accompaniment
3.a seasoning b season
Making inferrences
1.Before the California roll was created,most American probably didn’t like sushi.
2.From paragraph 5,we can say that two importances between the sushi in supermarkets
and the sushi in better restaurants are the freshness of the fish and the uniqueness of the
spices.
3.This tells us that the customers don’t like to try new foods and are probably not
adventurous in their eating.
4.This tells us that Americans are more concerned about overall taste while Japanese like
the individual taste of a food. And some Americans are more interested in the quantity of
food,whereas the Japanese are interested in the quality.
Ex.2 While/Whereas
1.While/Whereas California grows a lot of avocados,avocados are not widely found.
2.While/Whereas most Japanese eat sushi,many Americans won’t eat raw fish.
3.While/Whereas sushi rolls are in every American sushi bar ,in Japanese,nigiri is the most
popular sushi dish.
4.While/Whereas Japanese want their sushi simple and fresh,many Americans like to add
ingredients such as vegetables and spices.
5.While/Whereas Japanese sushi chefs study for years,many American sushi chefs have
only a few months of training.