分页:
[1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 下一页 后10页
Passage 1
The slightest whiff of baking bread starts taste buds blossoming. Its siren scent has even driven men to acts of madness. Like a country’s flag, bread signals nationality at the world’s tables. America’s corn bread; Ireland’s soda bread; England’s traditional cottage loaf and bread appears in as many shapes and sizes as there are nationalities. The French have created long, thin loaves with special flavour-lightly salted, slightly sour, finely textured. In all its marvellous variety, bread is such an essential part of life that it has also entered the language“bread winner”, “break bread”,“bread(for money)”, “know which side his bread is buttered”,“take the bread out of his mouth”are but a few examples.
Whatever its shape or texture, a golden-crust loaf coming from the oven breathing and swelling goodness stirs perhaps the most ancient of all hungers. Bread has become the very symbol of sustenance, arousing reverence, nostalgia, even passion, like no other food.
1. We can infer from the sentence“bread signals nationality at the world’s table” that .
分页:
[1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 下一页 后10页