【正文】 the consumer review website . There are about 350,000 hot pot restaurants around the country, the largest number of any type of restaurant.While enjoying a hot pot meal, people sit around a table and eat from a steaming pot. They put meat, seafood, vegetables, tofu and bean noodles in the soup to boil. Meat, especially mutton, is often cut as thin as paper, so it should not be cooked too long. Otherwise, it will lose its tenderness (鮮嫩).There is also a range of soup types to choose from: spicy, mushroom and tomato. Usually a hot pot has two parts inside. One side is spicy, while the other side is not so spicy. So everyone can enjoy eating it how they like.You don’t have to master great cooking skills to enjoy hot pot either. When the food is ready, take it out and put it in different sauces to give it a special flavor. Some also drink the soup from the pot.Enjoying hot pot is about more than just eating. While the pot cooks people talk and drink. Unlike some meals, it creates an atmosphere (氣氛) where everyone can just relax. No wonder hot pot restaurants have bee a favorite reunion spot for friends and family in China.( ) 38. Hot pot .A. has a long historyB. is popular in part of ChinaC. can make you coolD. is liked by women( ) 39. The main idea of the third paragraph is about .A. how to enjoy hot potB. where to eat hot potC. when to enjoy hot potD. who to cook hot pot( ) 40. Which of the following about hot pot is NOT true?A. Different food can be boiled in the pot.B. It’s better to cook mutton for a long time.C. There are different soup types for hot pot.D. A hot pot meal doesn’t need great cooking skills.( ) 41. People think hot pot in China .A. is just a kind of foodB. is similar to other mealsC. creates a chance to relaxD. has taken the place of other mealsD Will there be gardens in space?Astronauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) recently made history by taking bites of some red romaine lettuce(生菜). They became the first humans to eat food that was grown entirely in space.The lettuce was planted on the ISS in a small greenhouse called “Veggie”, which uses LED lights to help plants grow in space.First, astronauts cleaned the lettuce with special sanitizing wipes and then ate it with some salad dressing.“It was one small bite for man, one giant leap for our journey to Mars,” one astronaut Scott Kelly later posted on social media.Space vegetables are part of the NASA experiment called “Veg01”, a study on how plants grow away from the effects of Earth’s gravity. It will allow astronauts to grow and eat their own food during long space explorations.“If we’re ever going to go to Mars someday, we’re going to need a spacecraft that is much more selfsustainable in its food supply,” said Kelly.Growing fresh plants on a spacecraft may also provide oxygen and help astronauts alive, NASA said.“Veg01” started in May 2014. The first batch of vegetable took 33 days to grow in space before they were taken back to Earth for a safety check.After making sure it was safe to eat, astronauts planted a second batch on July 8. They let the plant grow for another 33 days and were then able to eat it.Astronauts usually only get some fruit and vegetables when a supply ship es to the ISS. Now with the vegetables grown in space, they can eat whenever they want. ( ) 42. Veggie .A. is a greenhouse where plants are grownB. is built on Earth by astronautsC. uses mon lights to help plants growD. is the name of a plant grown in space( ) 43. Scott Kelly’s words “It was one small bite for man, one giant leap for our journey to Mars” mean .【版權(quán)所有：21教育】A. it is easy to grow plants in space with the help of LEDB. space plants will be of great help for astronauts during space explorations is a long and tough journey to Mars from EarthD. as