In Search of Good English Food

How come it is so difficult to find English food in England? In England, it is 【小题1】 (easy) to find Indian and Chinese restaurants than English ones. In London, you can eat dishes almost around the world, but where are the English restaurants?

It is not only in restaurants that foreign dishes are taking the place of 【小题2】 (tradition) British food. In every supermarket, spaghetti and pizza are more popular. Why has this happened? What is wrong with the cooks of Britain that they prefer cooking spaghetti to 【小题3】 (potato)? Why do the British now like cooking in wine and olive oil? That’s 【小题4】 they can get ingredients (食材) from all over the world in just a few hours. Anyway, was’t English food always terrible and tasteless? The answer to this question is “No”, but 【小题5】 (understand) this, you have to go back to before World War I.

【小题6】 fact, the British have always imported(口) food from abroad. From ancient times, foreign trade was 【小题7】 main influence on British cooking. English kitchens got ingredients from all over the world. All of them 【小题8】 (use) in British dishes successfully. Another important influence on British cooking was 【小题9】 (certain) the weather. For the British, the good old rain gives 【小题10】 (they) rich soil and green grass. That means they are able to produce some of the finest meat, fruit and vegetables, which don’t need many sauces (调料) to cover their taste.

What is the most popular place to visit in China? Dali in Yunnan Province is certainly one of them. Dali is a city with a long history and it l【小题1】 in the western part of Yunnan. It is so beautiful that a lot of 【小题2】 (tour) from home and abroad would like to take a trip there. There are several places worth visiting.

Cangshan Mountains

The mountains i【小题3】 19 peaks (山峰), and the highest peak is 4,122 meters high. Although it’s very dangerous to climb, many people still try to reach the t【小题4】. There is a stream (小河) 【小题5】 every two peaks of Cangshan Mountains. They are the famous “Nineteen Peaks and Eighteen Streams. “There are more than 10 kinds of rocks and over 2, 500 kinds of plants in Cangshan Mountains and it is also home to about 330 kinds of animals.

Erhai Lake

It is one of the b【小题6】 fresh water lakes in China. It’s about 40 kilometers long and c【小题7】 an area of 252 square kilometers. Visitors can see a lot of amazing scenery. People call them “Three Islands, Four Eyots, Five Lakes and Nine Bays.”

Dali Ancient City

The ancient city is getting popular 【小题8】 (recent) because of its delicious food and long history. In fact, it was 【小题9】 (build) over 600 years ago. It was the gateway to the Silk Road in southwest China. The wall is 6 kilometers long, 6 meters w【小题10】 and 8 meters high. There are four city gates facing west, east, north and south.