2023年高考英语外刊时文精读专题09盘中知世界：花园卸.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 2023年高考英语外刊时文精读精练 (9) World in a dish: The garden path 盘中知世界：花园小径 主题语境：人与自我 主题语境内容：健康的生活方式 【外刊原文】（斜体单词为超纲词汇，认识即可；下划线单词为课标词汇，需熟记。） IMAGINE A?plate?holding two?strawberries,?identical?in?appearance. One came out of a supermarket box, meaning it was probably?harvested?when it was still not ripe, immediately placed in a forced-air cooling unit, loaded onto a??truck?and driven hundreds of miles. By the time it reached the?plate?it may have beenpicked?for two weeks. The other?strawberry?was?picked?from a garden minutes before being eaten.The first one will probably taste like a slightly?mushy(软踏踏的)?cucumber withstrong sour flavors. The second is likely to be sweet; the flavour willlinger in the mouth, as the?scent(香味)?will on the hands.Supermarket?strawberries?are not entirely without advantages: they are?convenient?and available in the northern?hemisphere(半球)?in February. But the two berries differ from each other in the same way that hearing Bach’s Mass in B Minor in a concert hall differs from listening to it on a??cassette(磁带). The home-grown?fruit is an?eatable?case for?cultivating?a home garden.Your?columnist argued gardening a?twee(矫揉造作的)?waste of time. Planting cool-weather greens, as gardeners across the north-east of America are now doing, can seem?make no sense.?Convenient,?continuous?well-stocked supermarket shelves are available all week, in many places?supplemented?on weekends by farmers’ markets. But the same could be said of cooking: cheap and good restaurants around, so why bother to make your own meals?That attitude misunderstands the ultimate appeal of gardening: it mistakes the product for the purpose. It is true that a garden can yield peas that taste like the?vibrant(生机勃勃的), greenspring; tomatoes and?carrots?of incomparable sweetness; lettuces and herbs that taste like themselves rather thanthe?plastic?they are usually?packaged?in; and potatoes with richness of earth itself. Growing your own vegetableensures a?reliable?supply.