Read the passage, and choose the correct answer A, B, C or D for each question.
Turning Food into Art
For many of us, food isn’t that important. However, for a few people, food is very important. For these people, meals are a kind of art.
These people are interested in something called “haute cuisine” . Haute cuisine is French for “high cooking”. You can usually find haute cuisine in fancy French hotels and high level restaurants.
Haute cuisine has changed over the years, but the most important parts have remained the same. Haute cuisine meals are almost always very complicated, and they take a very long time to make. Usually, an haute cuisine meal has very many small dishes, instead of a few large ones. Also, with haute cuisine dishes, the appearance is very important. Of course, an haute cuisine dish must taste wonderful, but that is not enough. An haute cuisine dish must also look beautiful. Another very important part of haute cuisine is wine. Chefs and customers always try to select a wine that is a perfect match for their meal. The wine that people drink with haute cuisine is often very rare. You will not be surprised to hear that haute cuisine dishes are almost always very expensive.
Haute cuisine is traditionally French, but other countries have similar concepts of food. People often compare Japanese kaiseki to haute cuisine. Kaiseki is another very complicated, very high level kind of food. In Japan, kaisekiis also considered a kind of art. When Japanese chefs prepare kaiseki, they don’t just consider the taste of the food. They also consider the food’s texture, colour, and appearance. Chefs even match the colour of the food to the colour of the plate and the chopsticks. Of course, although haute cuisine and kaiseki share many similarities, the food itself is quite different.
If you ever get the chance to try kaiseki or haute cuisine, remember one thing: You are not just having a meal; you are enjoying a very special kind of art.
Choose the word or phrase among A, B, C or D that best fits the blank space in the following passage.
Different Types of Tourism
Perhaps the most common type of tourism is what most people ___(6)___ with traveling: recreation tourism. This is ___(7)___ people go to a place that is very different from their regular day-to-day life to relax and have fun. Beaches, theme parks and camp grounds are often the most common places regularly visited by ___(8)___ tourists.
If the ___(9)___ of one’s visit to a particular place is to get to know its history and culture then this type of tourism is known as cultural tourism. They may attend festivals and ceremonies in order to ___(10)___ a better understanding of the people, their beliefs and their practices.
For tourists who want to see wildlife or take the joy of just being in the middle of nature, nature tourism is the answer. Ecotourism and nature treks are all part of this kind of tourism. Bird watching, for example, is one activity that nature tourists are fond of doing. What ___(11)___ this kind of tourism is that it has low impact ___(12)___ the local community.
Religious tourism is another type of tourism where people go to a religious location or locations to follow the ___(13)___ of their founder or to attend a religious ___(14)___.
Medical or health tourism is a relatively new type of tourist ___(15)___ where the main focus of the travel is improving one’s health, physical appearance or fitness.
English is the ___(16)___ important in the world today. A very large ___(17)___ of people understand and use English in many ___(18)___ of the world.
Indeed English is a very useful language. If we ___(19)___ English we can go to any place or country we like. We shall not find it hard to ___(20)___ people understand what we want to say.
English also helps us to learn all kinds of subjects. Hundreds of books are ___(21)___ in English every day in many countries to teach people many useful things. ___(22)___ English language has, therefore, helped to spread ideas and knowledge to all the comers of the world. There is no subject that cannot be ___(23)___ in English.
As English is used so much everywhere in the world, it has helped to make the countriesin the world more ___(24)___. The leaders of the world use English to understand one another. The English language has also helped to spread better understanding and friendship among countries of the world.
Lastly, a person who knows English is respected by people. It is for all these ___(25)___ that I want to learn English.