At 10 years old, Flynn Mc Garry became sick of the meals his mother cooked for him. So the Los Angeles native took matters into his own hands and started making his own dinners. One of his specialties? Trout with braised leeks(韭蔥燉鮭魚).
Now 13, the young chef is being praised as a “food prodigy(神童)”. He will spend his summer apprenticing with some of the best chefs at LA’s famous restaurants, MSNBC Nightly New reports.
Mc Garry began making a name for himself in the culinary(烹飪) world when John Sedlar, owner of the trendy Playa Restaurant, let Mc Garry take over the kitchen for a special nine-course meal. The meal sold out almost instantly.
“Flynn is a very unusual young man, and he’s very, very passionate,” owner John Sedlar told MSNBC.
By usual teenage boy standards, it’s true. So strong is his passion for cooking that the young man has turned his bedroom into an experimental kitchen laboratory.
Instead of video game consoles, baseball trophies and movie posters, Mc Garry’s room is lined with mixers, pots and pans, cutting boards and a stainless steel worktable. It’s where Mc Garry cooks his monthly pop-up dinners, which are served from his family’s dining room, a monthly supper club he calls Eureka.
Mc Garry is deft(靈巧的) and confident in the kitchen, with skills he’s been practicing since he was a child. What started out as a means of self-preservation from his mom’s unsatisfactory cooking has turned into a passion that the teen hopes to develop into a career.
“My goal? Michelin three stars, a restaurant in the top 50 list,” he told MSNBC. “Hopefully the top five.” Meanwhile, Mc Garry’s 13-year-old resume is already richer and more impressive than most cooks many times his age.
Mc Garry isn’t the only talented young prodigy to surprise experts in his field in recent years. At just 17 years old, physicist Taylor Wilson is already teaching graduate-level courses in physics and has built a functioning nuclear reactor.
小題1:Mc Garry first started cooking ___________.
A．for himself B．a(chǎn)s an experiment
C．in his own bedroom D．with a teacher’s guidance
小題2:Compared with many adult chefs, Mc Garry ________.
A．has the best cooking equipment in his kitchen
B．is inventive and has many new specialties to his name
C．has much and impressive cooking experience for his young age
D．wants to open his own Michelin three-star restaurant
小題3:The author mentions Taylor Wilson in the last paragraph to ______.
A．prove that Flynn’s success is not a rare case
B．compare his talent to that of Flynn Mc Garry
C．introduce a young talent in a different field
D．suggest experts should be trained at a young age
小題4:Where does this text probably come from?
A．A recipe bookB．A restaurant introduction
C．A career guideD．A news report

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:C
小題4:D

試題分析：本文講述的是Flynn Mc Garry一位烹飪神童的故事，在很小的時(shí)候因?yàn)閷寢屪龅娘埐瞬粷M意，就開始自己做菜，在年紀(jì)輕輕地時(shí)候就有了很多這方面的經(jīng)歷。
小題1:A 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第一段So the Los Angeles native took matters into his own hands and started making his own dinners.可知他最初的時(shí)候是因?yàn)閷寢屪龅娘埐粷M意，所以才為自己做飯。故A正確。
小題2:C 細(xì)節(jié)題。根據(jù)文章第2段Now 13, the young chef is being praised as a “food prodigy(神童)”. He will spend his summer apprenticing with some of the best chefs at LA’s famous restaurants, MSNBC Nightly New reports.Mc Garry began making a name for himself in the culinary(烹飪) world when John Sedlar, owner of the trendy Playa Restaurant, let Mc Garry take over the kitchen for a special nine-course meal. The meal sold out almost instantly.可知他已經(jīng)在烹飪領(lǐng)域有了很多的經(jīng)歷了。故C正確。
小題3:C 推理題。根據(jù)文章最后一段Mc Garry isn’t the only talented young prodigy to surprise experts in his field in recent years. At just 17 years old, physicist Taylor Wilson is already teaching graduate-level courses in physics and has built a functioning nuclear reactor.可知這是一個類比，講述的是在這個年齡段，在其他的領(lǐng)域也有一些很厲害的年輕人。故C正確。
小題4:D 推理題。本文介紹的是一個烹飪的神童，在年紀(jì)很小的時(shí)候就已經(jīng)很有成就。不可能是菜譜，飯店的介紹或者個人事業(yè)方面，最可能是新聞報(bào)道的內(nèi)容。故D正確。
點(diǎn)評：本文講述的是Flynn Mc Garry一位烹飪神童的故事。本文細(xì)節(jié)題居多，答題時(shí)在文章找到對應(yīng)的地方，用筆進(jìn)行標(biāo)記，這有利于后期有時(shí)間檢查時(shí)可以立刻找到答案的位置。仔細(xì)理解作者所講的意思，再結(jié)合選項(xiàng)，通過排除法和自己對全文的把握，選出正確答案。
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