2022届高三英语培优外刊阅读学案：芥末话题.docx

高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 外刊精选｜ 日本芥末产量衰减：“催人泪下”的美味，如何传承？ 日本静冈县的伊豆半岛有着长达数百年芥末种植历史。如今，它正在面临前所未有的“芥末危机”：一边是日益严峻的气候与生长条件，一边是缺乏年轻一代的技艺传承。已经成为日本饮食文化符号的芥末，将何去何从？芥末在日本饮食文化中为何如此重要？ "A Sense of Crisis" for Wasabi, a Pungent Staple of Japanese Cuisine By Motoko Rich and Makiko Inoue For three decades, Mitsuyasu Asada has proudly tended the same lush mountainside terraces where his father and grandfather grew wasabi, the horseradish-like plant with a fluorescent green hue and head-clearing pungency that unmistakably connotes Japanese cuisine. Yet at the age of just 56, Mr. Asada is already thinking about retiring, worn down by the many threats facing this indispensable condiment that graces plates of sushi and bowls of soba. Rising temperatures have rendered his crops more susceptible to mold and rot. He worries about unpredictable rainfall, deluging floods and more intense typhoons. And his two adult daughters have married and shown no interest in succeeding him on his one and a half acres in Izu. "If no one will take it over, " Mr. Asada said, "it will end." "In order to protect Japanese food culture," he added, "it is important to protect wasabi." But as cheap wood imports supplanted Japan's lumber in the 1960s, the cedar and cypress were left to grow, crowding out other kinds of plants that would better contain and nourish the mountain springs that wasabi needs to thrive. Hope may yet come from people like Haruhiko Sugiyama, 44, who recently started his own wasabi-growing operation in Izu. In 12 years working for another grower, Mr. Sugiyama said, he never took a day off while learning every step of local wasabi-growing techniques. 【词汇过关】 请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 1.wasabi [wəˈsɑːbi] n. _______________________ 2.pungent [ˈpʌndʒnt] adj. _______________________ 3.staple [ˈs