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Maureen often gives dinner parties at home. She loves (a) ______. She lays the table: puts the (b) ______ in the right places, sets out the plates and puts a clean white (c) ______ at each place. For the meal itself, she usually gives her guests some kind of (d) ______ first, for example soup or melon. Next comes the (e) ___, which is usually meat (unless some of her guests are (f) _____ or if they’re on a special (g) ______) with a (h) ______ of salad. For (i) ______ it’s usually fruit or ice-cream, and then coffee. When everyone has gone home, she must think about doing the (j) ______, as in the kitchen the (k) ______ is full of dirty (l) ______.
Comfort Food Cravings
[1] Do you crave for crunchies when you get the munchies? Cheer yourself up with chocolate? Chill out with ice cream? A recent survey of Americans’ eating habits shows that people snack for the sake of their spirits as well as for their stomachs.
[2] Why do you choose the foods you do? The answer involves a lot more than appetite. “For us, humans, eating is never a ‘purely biological’ activity,” observes Sidney Mintz, author of Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom.
[3] Foods from “the four basic snack food groups” — bready, crunchy, creamy, and chewy — fill different sensory and emotional needs, according to Julie Kembel, author of Winning the Weight and Wellness Game.
[4] Crunch is the secret to chips’ soaring popularity, points out Kembel. “We tend to store tension in our jaws, so when we eat something crunchy, we tense and relax our jaws, relieving some of that ache.” Chewy foods with carbohydrates, like bagels or licorice, help you slow down and unwind. Bready foods, like puddings, pasta, and porridge, create a feeling of fullness that makes you feel more secure. Finally, creamy foods — luscious objects of sensory delight — are “our way of ... indulging ourselves,” adds Kembel.
[5] When you're feeling down or distressed, you probably yearn for more than a mouthful of something nutritious or delicious. However, there’s a definite gender difference in choosing comfort foods. Nearly half of the women surveyed (49 %) prefer chocolate, while ice cream soothes the souls and stomachs of about four in 10 men (43 %). From a nutritional standpoint, these foods have a lot in common. “Chocolate and ice cream are similar in fat and sugar composition and in biological effects,” notes Debra Waterhouse, author of Why Women Need Chocolate. “Both release brain chemicals — serotonin and endorphins — that make us feel better.”
Paragraph 1: feelings of hunger (slang); make yourself feel happier; make yourself more relaxed (slang); eat a small meal in between regular meals
Paragraph 2: a feeling of hunger
Paragraph 3: related to the senses of touch, taste, and feel
Paragraph 4: increasing quickly; strain; delicious; allowing a special pleasure
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depressed; have a strong desire for; healthy to eat; male or female; calms; point of view; brain chemicals.
1. Someone who is hungry for something crunchy is probably_____.
a. tense b. relaxed c. self-indulgent
2. If you have had a busy day and need to calm down, you may find ____ food satisfying.
a. crunchy b. chewy c. bready
3. Ice cream and chocolate comfort people because of ____.
a. gender differences b. chemical reactions c. nutrition
4. If you told the experts quoted in this story that you had a craving, they would probably say,_____.
a. “Why are you hungry? Didn't you have lunch?”
b. “I wonder why you feel this craving right now.”
c. “Chocolate always makes everyone feel better.”
5. A man who is feeling unhappy may crave for _____.
a. ice ream b. chocolate c. bready foods
6. This article is true for_____.
a. people all over the world b. people in North America c. people in the U.S.
7. A craving for food is ____ need.
a. an emotional b. a biological c. both an emotional and a biological
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