Reading. The History of Chinese Cuisine

Cheese-Rolling Festival

Cheese-Rolling on Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire may not          [to sound, sound, sounding, sounds]dangerous but this annual event is no walk in the park. Once a year, as they have done for               [hundred, a hundred, the hundredth, hundreds]of years, young men and women hurl themselves down the hill      [so, such, as, too]steep that it is impossible to remain standing, in pursuit of a seven-         [pounds, pound, pound's, pounds']wheel of locally made cheese. There is simply no way participants        [must, can, need, should]come down Cooper's Hill on their feet. And the prize? The wheel of cheese, of course.

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THE HISTORY OF CHINESE CUISINE

In China, food and its preparation has been developed so highly that it has reached the status of an art form. Rich and poor, the Chinese people consider _____ There is an old Chinese saying “Food is the first necessity of the people”. This art has been cultivated and refined over hundreds of years. Legend has it that the culture of Chinese cuisine originated in the 15th century BC during the Shang dynasty and was originally introduced by Yi Yin.

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The two dominant philosophies of Chinese culture both had extreme influences on the political and economic history of the country but it is less well known ____ .