The Frugal Gourmet Cooks American by Jeff Smith

　　Our real American foods have come from our soil and have been used by many groups — those who already lived here and those who have come here to live. The Native Americans already had developed an interesting cuisine using the abundant foods that were so prevalent.

　　The influence that the English had upon our national eating habits is easy to see. They were a tough lot, those English, and they ate in a tough manner. They wiped their mouths on the tablecloth, if there happened to be one, and they ate until you would expect them to burst. European travelers to this country in those days were most often shocked by American eating habits, which included too much salt and too much liquor. Not much has changed! And, the Revolutionists refused to use the fork since it marked them as Europeans. The fork was not absolutely common on the American dinner table until about the time of the Civil War, the 1860s. Those English were a tough lot.

　　Other immigrant groups added their own touches to the preparation of our New World food products. The groups that came still have a special sense of self-identity through your ancestors who came from other lands was supposed to disappear in this country. The term melting pot was first used in reference to America in the late 1700s, so this belief that we would all become the same has been with us for a long time. Thank goodness it has never worked. The various immigrant groups continue to add flavor to the pot, all right, but you can pick out the individual flavors easily.

　　The largest ancestry group in America is the English. There are more people in America who claim to have come from English blood than there are in England. But is their food English? Thanks be to God, it is not! It is American. The second largest group is the Germans, then the Irish, the Afro-Americans, the French, the Italians, the Scottish, and the Polish. The Mexican and American Indian groups are all smaller than any of the above, though they were the original cooks in this country.

　　Question 6: Which of the following statements is nearly identical in meaning with the sentence “they ate until you would expect them to burst” in the second paragraph?

　　A. You bet they would never stop to eat till they are full.

　　B. What you can expect is that they would not stop eating unless there was no more food.

　　C. The only thing you would expect is that they wouldn’t stop eating till they had had enough of the food.

　　D. the only thing is that they wouldn’t stop eating till they felt sick.

　　Question 7: Which of the following statements is Not true?

　　A. English people had bad table manners.

　　B. American food was exclusively unique in its flavors and varieties.

　　C. American diet contained a lot of fat, salt and liquor.

　　D. Europeans were not at all accustomed to the American way of eating.

　　Question 8: The author’s attitude towards American food is that

　　A. American food is better than foods from other countries.

　　B. American food is superior to European food.

　　C. European food had helped enrich the flavors and varieties of American food.

　　D. People from other countries could still identify from the American foods the foods that were unique to their countries.

　　Q9: Immigrant groups, when they got settled down in the United States, still have had their own sense of self-identity because

　　A. their foods are easily identified among all the foods American eat.

　　B. their foods stand out in sharp contrast to foods of other countries.

　　C. they know pretty well what elements of American food are of their own countries’ origin.

　　D. they know pretty well how their foods contribute to American cuisine.

　　Question 10: Which of the following statements is true?

　　A. People from other cultures or nations start to lose their self-identity once they get settled down in America.

　　B. The “melting pot” is supposed melt all the foods but in reality it doesn’t.

　　C. The special sense of self-identity of people from other countries can’t be maintained once they become Americans.

　　D. The “melting pot” finds it capable of melting all the food traditions into the American tradition.

　　1.評分要點：

　　ⅰ 簡要描述該事件。普羅文扎諾讓人用錘子敲折了貪污的雇員的拇指，再請醫生接上，但沒有開除他。普羅文扎諾因此被起訴。作者覺得他的做法對于企業經理大有教益。

　　ⅱ 在以人為本的經營環境里，管理者面臨以下問題：

　　A. 如何對付表現最差的雇員。解雇評估結果最差的工人。普羅文扎諾的創舉將成為管理手段的新內容，“管理手段”不能是空話。

　　B. 如何成為人們首選的雇主。普羅文扎諾的做法向求職者傳遞了明白的信息：他的公司很講人道。

　　C. 如何殺一儆百。此舉可能會使雇員的貪污行為越來越少。可口可樂公司前首席執行官持同樣觀點，但沒有實行。

　　D. 如何區別對待雇員。韋爾奇主張，經理應當根據雇員的不同表現給予不同的待遇;但與普羅文扎諾相比，這位管理大師的想象力還不夠豐富。

　　ⅰ 整體效果：

　　A. 總結作者的真正意圖：許多企業管理有許多問題尚待解決，普羅文扎諾一案值得深思。

　　B. 文字精煉、準確，語句完整、通順，保留作者的詼諧口吻。

　　C. 語病、錯別字、標點使用不當，倒扣分。

　　2.(40 points)

　　評分要點：

　　a) 核心信息：譯文難以傳達原文的神韻。

　　b) 產生原因，如：東、西方思維方式的不同——西方人的曲折細膩、復雜繁瑣與分析解剖，東方人的省略鎖事與不重分析等。

　　c) 具體特點，如：譯文句子生硬、色彩單調、說理強而描繪弱。

　　d) 整體效果：文字精煉、準確;語句通順、無語病;標點使用準確。

　　Part 2 Reading Comprehension (20 points) (每題2分)

　　1. B 2. A 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. D 9. C 10. B