공통영어2 천재 강상구 3과 변형문제

Is there any ____ you don’t like, while many others just can’t stop loving it?

For Isabella, such food is cilantro, the green leaves common in the cuisines of Thailand, Mexico, Morocco, ____ many other countries.

Even though her family is ____ Thailand, Isabella loves meeting other people who don’t like cilantro since they don’t make her feel so odd or weird.

Cilantro is one of those polarizing foods with lots of fans and haters, which often include mushrooms, olives, and ____ cheese, among others.

“Love it” or “hate it” is pretty clear for these foods, ____ there could be many reasons behind the preference.

Let ____ talk about three of them.

First of all, we need to be clear about the ____ of the tongue.

The ____ our tongues send to our brains is very simple.

We generally like sweetness and hate bitterness, ____ the biological reasons for that are deeply rooted in our brains.

For one, babies like sweet tastes, not bitter ____ since bitterness can indicate poison.

Not liking bitter things is, in a sense, a ____ defense mechanism.

Due to genetic differences, some ____ may be more sensitive than others to bitterness.

Interestingly, how ____ you are to bitterness doesn’t always relate to whether or not you like a certain type of food.

For example, the fact that someone thinks celery is more bitter than other people find it does not necessarily mean the ____ can’t grow to like it.

Likewise, even if you find it to be ____ bitter than others do, you may still hate it.

The information our tongues convey does not, however, paint ____ full picture of the world of tastes.

There are also ____ a wider spectrum of sensations we get from food.

To appreciate flavors such as chocolate, vanilla, blue cheese, and cilantro, we need not just ____ tongues, but more importantly our noses.

As we chew food, its smells make their way to the back of our noses from inside our mouths, enabling ____ to distinguish between many flavors.

Some scientists discovered that ____ with a certain gene are more sensitive to the smell of cilantro.

These people are likely to say it has a ____ flavor.

Can we learn to like a food we’ve ____ disliked?

“Your biology is not your destiny. When you’re open to different foods, you learn to like what you eat,” answers Julie Mennella, a researcher from the Monell Chemical Senses ____

She says ____ kids are particularly adaptable when it comes to learning to like new foods.

Research ____ shown that after tasting a food eight or ten times, children will become more accepting of it.

Similarly, even people who hate cilantro may be able to learn to tolerate it or ____ like it.

____ time and through exposure, they can build up tolerance to cilantro, by adding a small amount in a curry, for example.

While preferences can be ____ usually after a few trials, significant experiences with foods — especially those you had when you were young—can have a lasting effect.

Suppose you ____ hospitalized.

Confined to a bed, you get ____ miyeokguk too many times.

Then, you could avoid the food ____ a long time.

In contrast, associations with good memories can make ____ like some foods.

For example, you might love sujeonggwa ____ because of a warm, happy memory of your grandmother making it.

____ preferences vary across cultures, too.

Every culture may have something that ____ considered disagreeable in other cultures.

Durian fruit from Southeast Asia or American sweet potato pie topped with marshmallows ____ seem distasteful to people not familiar with them.

In fact, food preferences in different parts of the world have a lot to do with what is available or essential: for instance, beans in Mexico, ____ in India, and fermented shark in Iceland.

Of course, we cannot predict food preferences solely on the basis of a person’s cultural background, as ____ case showed with cilantro.

It is not surprising that our food preferences are as varied as the foods we ____

Some ____ the preferences are biological, and some are learned.

Given this, is it any wonder that all sorts of ____ have both fans and haters?