Laser cooked 3Dprinted meals激光烹饪3D打印食物

王开琴

当前，一场新的饮食潮流正在向人们走来——这场潮流从3D食品打印机开始，正带领人们走向一个数字烹饪的未来。

主题语境：饮食与科学 进步篇幅：362词 建议用时：7分钟

1 Whatever your tastes are， it is highlyunlikely that many of you are using 3Dprinters to create your favorite meals. Still，anyone interested in the future of food canfind technologists printing out snacks， fromsteaks to cakes， at the push of a button. Nowlaser cooking has arrived and it is adding anentirely new layer of gourmet （美食家） taste.

2 Trials at Columbia University are revealing how highly tailored food can be preparedusing a 3D printer. So far， the experiments with chicken have created lasercooked（激光烹饪的） samples that have the same flavor profile as conventional cooking.“In fact， our twoblind taste testers preferred lasercookedmeat to the conventionally cooked samples， whichshows the promise for this technology，”said project leader James Blutinger.

3 Companies in the food industry regularly use ingredients （食材） injected into containersand molded into appealing shapes. But playing with food chemistry and some processesto create sweet or savory （咸味的） caviar （魚子酱）， is often restricted to gourmetkitchens. Now the worlds first 3D printing restaurant—Food Ink—has served up treats to diners direct from printer to plate. Meat companiescombine digital modeling with printing tocreate different cuts of steak.

4 Sugar and sweet treats were among thefirst food printer ingredients to become a hitwith home consumers. La Miam Factory in Belgium3D prints chocolate for customers. Andnow a crowdfunded chocolate printer will allow anyone to do it at home. Or how about yourown personalized 3D printed pizza？ Well， its not all about printing takeaway foods andsugary snacks： Being personalized means getting the right nutritional content too.

5 Recreating nutrientrichfoods from a precise recipe should be as simple as sharing afile on the Internet， say Columbias engineers. Startup Anrich3D makes food printers thattake data from medical assessments， health trackers and apps， and combines them to createindividual meal plans that are cheap， healthy， and nutritionally balanced. All of this couldwell change the way we think about and eat food. High on the list of positives is the factthat printed food can be healthier， lessen the environmental impact of food productionand cut waste.

Reading Check

Inference

1. What is James Blutingers attitude toward the new technology of cooking？

A. Tolerant. B. Doubtful.

C. Hopeful. D. Ambiguous.

Detail

2. What can we know about Food Ink from paragraph 3？

A. It provides 3D printed food for customers.

B. It sells the ingredients made in containers.

C. It is a restaurant which specially makes caviar.

D. It only serves different cuts of steak.

Detail

3. Compared with ordinary food， what is the advantage of printed food？

A. Printed food has more nutrition.

B. Printed food is cooked in a shorter time.

C. The ingredients of printed food are healthier.

D. Printed food can be cooked based on individual physical condition.

Inference

4. In which part of a magazine can we read the text？

A. Geography. B. Science.

C. Culture. D. Entertainment.

Language Study

Ⅰ. Difficult sentences in the text

1. Whatever your tastes are， it is highly unlikely that many of you are using 3D printers to create your favorite meals. 無论你的口味如何，你们中的许多人都不太可能使用3D 打印机来制作自己喜欢的食物。

【点石成金】Whatever引导的是让步状语从句，句中的that引导的是主语从句，it作形式主语。

2. High on the list of positives is the fact that printed food can be healthier， lessen the environmental impact of food production and cut waste. 最重要的是打印食品可能更健康，可以减少食品生产对环境的影响并减少浪费。

【点石成金】句中的that引导同位语从句，that在从句中不充当任何成分。

Ⅱ. Text?centered chunks

print out 打印出

so far 到目前为止；迄今为止

serve up（给……）提供；端上（食物）

think about 认为；以为

high on the list 名列前茅