山西省大同市第一中学2014-2015学年高一下学期模块考试（期中） 英语试题
第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）
第一节：（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
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You’re cooking your favourite dish, and the phone rings. You are busy chatting with your friend and suddenly remember you haven’t put the salt in. You think, well, it’s just about done but I’ll add the salt now, anyway. So you put in the salt shortly before you take the dish off the stove to serve it. As you’re eating, you think it tastes a lot saltier than usual. Does it really or is it just your imagination?
That’s the question. If you want something to taste salty, when is the best time to salt it: before you eat it?
To get to the answer let’s consider the most basic thing about tasting. Before you can taste anything it must reach your tongue. That’s obvious enough, but it has a lot to do with the seasoning(调味) of food. Generally speaking, the more tasty particles(微粒) that reach the taste buds(味蕾), the stronger the taste. Salt buried in a lump(团，块) of food will likely be swallowed untasted. And that’s where a lot of it ends up if you salt the food early in the cooking process.
Salt added later in cooking tends to remain on the surface of the food, so more of it reaches your taste buds, and thus the food tastes saltier. Think of potato chips with their salty surfaces. One ounce of chips has about the same amount of salt as a slice of wheat bread. Which tastes saltier?
So, the answer to the question of when to salt to get the saltiest taste is: the later the better.
A result of this is that since you get a saltier taste by adding it later, you can use less salt. This can be helpful to those trying to cut back on salt: put it later and you don’t need as much.
1. What is mainly discussed in this text?
A. How to cook a tasty meal. B. The amount of salt in a dish.
C. How to cook a salty meal. D. The best time to salt a dish.
2. If you want to save salt and get a saltier taste, you’d better put in the salt ______.
A. before you cook your meal B. halfway you cook your meal
C. at the end of cooking D. just before taking the dish off the stove
