Soluzioni Inglese Maturità 2015: Seconda prova Istituto Tecnico per il Turismo

Pag. 2/3 Sessione ordinaria 2015

Seconda prova scritta

Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’ Università e della Ricerca

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SI96 ESAME DI STATO DI ISTRUZIONE SECONDARIA SUPERIORE

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Indirizzo: IT04, EA07 TURISMO

Tema di: LINGUA INGLESE

If I had stuck to hotel menus and restaurants on my travels I would never have had the experience of not

30 just the generosity but the insights into family life worlds away, and the common humanity of sitting

strangers down and sharing from your table what the earth, locally, has to offer.

When I was in Hong Kong I was lucky enough to experience a world of contrasts, both ends of the scale.

I always head for the markets wherever I am and Sheung Wan was filled with sights we never see: turtles,

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fish, snakes, pig’s heads, wreaths of intestines. At a congee shop we enjoyed dried

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35 oysters, salted duck, goose intestines, preserved egg and pork and snowy mounds of congee. I was a guest

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at the Mandarin Oriental, so I experienced, also, the most sophisticated way of cooking all the local

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But the pinnacle of the trip, culinarily speaking, was being taken to one of the last two surviving snake

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shops and drinking snake wine, seeing a snake being despatched “chop chop” in front of my eyes and

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40 boldly cooked and presented, and in then declining the blood which has been bled before your eyes, as

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reserving the right not to participate in all rites has to remain an option.

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I remembered the huge circular chopping board sunk into the work-top

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robust your knife skills, when I got home, and I had one made for my Somerset kitchen. It reminds me of

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Hong Kong every time I cook. I L'

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Answer the following questions using your own words. S E

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was the writer’s first experience abroad

1. What like?

2. Later in life she had the chance to travel extensively for work. Why did this help her see things that a

tourist does not?

What’s the problem with guidebooks?

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4. What happened to the writer in the area around Asti?

5. What did the writer learn in Jaipur?

Explain the writer’s statement “I have found that a common language, in the absence of words, is

6. always food”.

7. What would she have missed if the writer had only had meals in hotel restaurants during her travels?

8. What kind of contrasts does the writer mention, when describing her stay in Hong Kong?

9. What is the writer's most vivid memory from Hong Kong?

10. What reminds the writer of Hong Kong whenever she cooks? Why did she have the object made for

her own kitchen?