This kind of fruit tastes _____ and sells ____.

Go Ahead—Cook with It

别怕—就用它来烹饪

It's grapefruit season. From now through March, the golden orbs are ripe for the picking. And they're not just for breakfast any more.

Hanging around on trees all about California: grapefruit—heavy with juice, tartly sweet, beguilingly perfumed．Round and yellow as happy faces or suns, they seem to ripe just as the general populace sinks into its annual round of post-holiday dietary self-chastisement.

Coincidence？ Perhaps. But we say run with it.

Look beyond the obvious salvo of half a grapefruit for breakfast attacked with a jagged spoon and you'll find a marvelous fruit for peeling and eating out of hanD．There's nothing like it for inducing simultaneous feelings of gastronomic piety and delight at recapturing a long-lost pleasure. It's sensual: the aroma of essential oils as they spurt daintily from the pores of the thick skin, the ripping sound of the tenacious segments being pulled apart, the juice dripping down. And it's delicious.

But don't stop there. Cook with grapefruit. Use its juice to flavor sauces. Section and scatter it. Bake with it. Candy its peel. Grapefruit is milder and sweeter than lemon, but it can be used in many of the same ways—squeezed on grilled fish, made into a brightly flavored curD．And if you're looking for gorgeous color, red grapefruit offers extra plate appeal.

The notion that red grapefruit is sweeter than white or yellow grapefruit is, however, a myth, according to citrus specialists. (The story grew out of a marketing campaign by Texas growers. ) Red grapefruits get their color from lycopene, which has health benefits (its an antioxidant)but does not affect flavor.

Sweetness is determined, rather, by the length of time the fruit has been hanging on a tree. A grapefruit picked in December isn't as sweet as one picked in February, so if you have a tree, just pick fruit as needed．

If not, ask at your farmers market about the different varieties available, all of which have their fans. California reds include the medium-pink Rio Reds from the Caochella Valley and the Star Ruby from Central Valley (and Texas). Yellow Marsh is a familiar yellow variety and the Duncan, while not usually labeled as such in supermarkets, is a reliable white.

For those who don't like the tartness of a true grapefruit, Oro Blanco—the half-grapefruit, half-acidless pummelo—is sweeter and can be used in salads.

Our salad of jicama strips, thinly sliced snow peas, fresh pea sprouts (available in Asian markets)and red grapefruit sections has an appealing crunch. Its delicately harmonious flavors are pulled together with a faintly sweet dressing of grapefruit juice, tarragon and mint.

The strikingly pink sauce of our baked halibut dish contrasts with the white flesh of the fish for an artful plate—and it's easy to make. Before baking, marinate the halibut in grapefruit juice with garlic and thyme. Sauce it with a reduction of grapefruit juice combined with blood orange juice, which deepens the color and softens the flavor. Then whisk in bits of cold butter for silkiness.

A rich crust is a perfect foil for the tangy grapefruit curd filling in our pretty tartlets. Both grapefruit juice and lemon juice are used in the curd to focus the flavor; grapefruits zest enlivens the crust. Garnish them with whipped cream and candied grapefruit peel.

For cooking, select heavy fruit, which indicates juiciness. (If you're making a batch of candied peel, however, lighter fruit will indicate more peel.) Before juicing, roll a grapefruit under your hand on the countertop to help extract the most juice. Avoid lumpy fruit, which may be over-ripe.

And finally, for those whose resolute January s

A．The grapefruit becomes ripe just after a holiday in a year so that people can consume more food．

B．The grapefruit matures in autumn to provide people with a kind of rich food．

C．The grapefruit can provide people with a kind of favorite fruit when they have been on diet for a few days after the Christmas holiday during which they ate too many rich foods.

D．The grapefruit matures as self-chastisement for people.

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Fruit is good for people. Many people eat some {fruit; pears; apples} every day. Mr. Black and Mrs. Black like fruit very much and every Monday Mrs. Black goes to buy some fruit in the shop near her house. The man in the shop knows her well and helps a lot. She can buy all {kind; pieces; kinds} of fruit there, like apples, pears, oranges and bananas. In different time of the year the {prices; price; value} of each kind of fruit is not the {good; bad; same}, sometimes high, something low. Mrs. Black likes to buy cheap fruit. But Mr. Black likes bananas only. She buys bananas for him every week. She only buys cheap {fruit; goods; products} for herself."

life. Lunch is for them a kind of gratuity paid to the body. They hurriedly toss it a fruit or a fish and go back to work. Certain writers, in rebellion, have founded the club, "Three Hours for Lunch", but they are an agreeable exception. Even at dinner, general conversation is rare. Everyone talks to his neighbor. After dinner the men linger at the table, a custom inherited from England. In New York your host will often propose taking you to the theatre, or else he will provide a pianist, a singer, a lecturer. The idea of leaving the guests to themselves, and expecting them to get pleasure out of meeting one another, astonishes and even appalls him. His excessive modesty does not permit his imagining that his friends can be happy merely in being in his house, with one another. He treats them like children. On Christmas Eve you will see, in some of the pleasant homes in New York, Christmas trees for grown people. In other places, after a dinner at which you exchange ideas, there will be a magician who will do his best to amuse the oldsters. There you must realize that the absence of conversation in American homes comes, not from absence of ideas or lack of intelligence of understanding, but from an unconquerable shyness and a prodigious self-distrust.

The Americans hurry through lunch because ______.

A．they are ambitious

B．they have rebelled against English customs

C．they don' t think it is important

D．talking while eating is impolite

e fruit very much and every Monday Mrs Black goes to buy some fruit in the ___22___ near her house. The man in the shop knows her well and helps a lot. She can buy all ___23___ of fruit there, like apples, pears, oranges and bananas. In different time of the year the price of each kind of fruit is not the ___24___, sometimes high, something low. Mrs Black ___25___ to buy cheap fruit. But Mr Black likes bananas only. She buys bananas for him every week. She only buys cheap items for herself.

21.

A.shop

B.same

C.likes

D.kinds

E.fruit

22.

A.shop

B.same

C.likes

D.kinds

E.fruit

23.

A.shop

B.same

C.likes

D.kinds

E.fruit

24.

A.shop

B.same

C.likes

D.kinds

E.fruit

25.

A.shop

B.same

C.likes

D.kinds

E.fruit

We don’t have ______ fruit in the house.Let me buy ______.

A、any, any

B、any, some

C、a little, any

D、some, any

A.I like to eat fruit and vegetables

B.I don’t like hamburgers

C.I like to do sports

A、vegetable/ meats

B、fruit/ orange

C、banana/ fruit

D、vegetables/ meat

A.don’t keep

B.can’t be kept

C.are not kept

D.are not keeping

l that can do this？ It has wings like a bird. But it doesn’t look like a bird. It’s a bat.Bats have fur mostly all over, but not on their wings. Some bats have black, brown, red, or yellow fur. These live in dark places, like caves. Other bats live in trees. Many of these bats are part white and part another color. Some of them are green.There are more than 900 kinds of bats. The biggest ones are called flying foxes. Their heads look like little brown fox heads. The wings of these bats can be over 5 feet across. But other kinds can be very little. The wings of the smallest bats are only 1/2 foot across.In the day, bats hang by their feet and sleep a lot. At times they clean their fur. Some of the time they care for their babies. Mostly they sleep. But when the sun goes down, they begin to move. At night bats fly around. They try to find food. Bats eat fruit, bugs, plants, fish, and flowers.Some bats use their good hearing to find things in the dark. First they make sounds. The sounds jump off anything around the bats. Then these sounds come back, so the bats can hear just where the thing is. They can fly right to it. That’s how they find things to eat.

1.According to the passage a bat is ().

A.an animal

B.a plant

C.a bird

D.food

2.From the passage we know that ().

A.there are as many as 900 kinds of bats in the world.

B.Bats with brown and red fur live in trees, while bats with green fur live in caves

C.bats are blind but have good hearing

D.the wings of the biggest bats can be exactly 5 feet across

3.The word “flying fox” in paragraph 3 means ().

A.red foxes flying high

B.the biggest bat

C.a kind of fierce animal recently discovered

D.fox-like animals with big wings

4.According to the passage the way bats find food is ().

A.to fly around it at night

B.to jump off anything around them

C.as the same as that of most other animals

D.to use their good hearing in the dark

5.Which of the following is NOT true according to this passage？()

A.All dark bats live in the dark places.

B.In the day bats sleep a lot and look for foods at night.

C.Bats eat more fish and fruit than they eat bugs.

D.Bats can hang on the wall by their feet.