Pizza: the World's Favorite Food

Food, and the way we eat it, is always changing. As society develops, we learn new ways of growing, processing and cooking food. What we ate 200 years ago was very different from what we eat today. Also, when people travel to live in other countries, they take their knowledge of cooking with them. And food must fit modern lifestyles and local tastes, too. One food that has done this successfully is pizza.

The pizza we recognize today first appeared in Italy in 1889. A famous baker from Naples made a special Pizza for the Italian royal (皇室的) family. He was very worried they wouldn't like it, but they did. Queen Margherita loved the dish so much, and the baker named it after her. Since then, this simple meal of bread, cheese and tomato has traveled the world, and it has adapted (适应) to local cultures. The pizza began its journey in the 1890s, when many Indians moved to New York in search of a better life. There they continued to make pizzas, and the first pizzeria opened in 1905.

At first it was only popular with Indians, but by the late 1940s, Americans discovered a taste for it. Today they spend $37 billion a year on pizzas. That's more than $100 per American.

The Pizza continued its travels around the world, adapting all the time. In Sweden, for example, it is usual to have bananas on pizzas. In Belgium, people eat chocolate pizzas with marshmallows on top. Japan is a nation of seafood lovers, so not surprisingly, they love octopus and squid, as well as roasted seaweed, toppings. Australians sometimes choose kangaroo or crocodile on their pizza.

The popularity of the pizza is also related to our changing lifestyles. In today's super-fast society, people often don't have the time or energy to cook. So, they order take-out and very often, it's a pizza. Sometimes you don't even have to pick it up, it's delivered (递送) to your home. If you don't even have time to sit down, buy a single slice and eat it standing up.

The Pizza has come a long way. From its beginnings in an Italian city, it has grown to become one of the world's favorite foods.

1.What do people like taking when they travel to live in other countries?

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2.Did the Italian royal family like the pizza?

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3.When did the pizza move to New York?

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4.In which country do people love pizzas with bananas?

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5.What does the passage mainly talk about?

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What if you could make money by playing video games? That is what Griffin Spikoski is doing. He’s a 15-year-old from the US. He has earned about $200,000 (about 1346,600 yuan) playing the game Fortnite.

Spikoski goes to school online in the morning. He spends his afternoons livestreaming (直播) his games and talking about them. He has more than 280,000 fans on different streaming sites (网站). Some people pay $ 4.99 a month to follow his channel (频道). In the evening, he puts videos of his games on YouTube, where he has more than 1 million fans.

But according to Spikoski, livestreaming is a hard job. “If I was in high school right now, it would be really hard,” he said. “I would have no energy (精力) to livestream, no energy to make videos.”

It’s not easy to stand out from other livestreamers. For one thing, you have to be really good at playing video games. For another, your videos have to be interesting, according to Spikoski. Spikoski won many fans after beating a professional (职业的) Fortnite player.

1.Griffin Spikoski has made a lot of money by _______.

A.livestreaming his daily life

B.playing video games

C.talking with video game players

2.The underlined word “earn” in Paragraph 1 may mean “_______”.

A.花费 B.赚得 C.贏得

3.Paragraph 2 is mainly written to _______.

A.show a normal (普通的) day in Spikoski’s life

B.show how Spikoski deals with his studies

C.show how much Spikoski loves livestreaming

4.What do we know about Spikoski?

A.He wants to be a professional livestreamer.

B.He does well in school.

C.Livestreaming uses a lot of his energy.

5.What makes Spikoski an outstanding livestreamer?

a. He is good at playing video games.

b. He makes his videos interesting.

c. He is good at advertising himself.

d. He once beat a professional player.

A.abc B.acd C.abd

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