Feeding a crowd of hundreds doesn’t make Kenny Seals-Nutt nervous.
In fact, he thrives in the kitchen. He’s in his perfect place when dicing tomatoes, making salads and baking cakes.
By the time Kenny, 16, reached his third year of high school at Hickory Grove, North Carolina, US, he had bee vice president of his school’s cooking club. He also opened his own food pany, called Modern Fusion.
Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his mother, and his grandmother, who owned a catering (饮食业) business herself. Kenny helped them both in order to remember their tips: how long to cook chicken so it stays wet, and the right amount of tomatoes to add to a spaghetti dish.
At the age of 5, he cooked his first dish of shrimp and broccoli. Taking it for his school lunch, he warmed it up in the school’s microwave, while the other kids ate their sandwiches.
“I love to eat, and it started to bee more fun to cook than to use a microwave,” he said.
Cooking came easy to Kenny, and he enjoyed adding new ingredients into mon dishes. “It started with a passion (热情) and I wanted to know more,” he said. He began to watch the Food Network and read chef blogs.
Last summer, Kenny put his skills to the test by working with his grandmother to cater his uncle’s wedding. While she cooked traditional dishes, Kenny wanted to add new to the expected flavors (风味).
Now Kenny spends his weekends catering his own events: weddings, birthday parties, baby showers. Kenny’s dishes are always a hit.
Chef Frederick Mookie Hicks, owner of a catering business, said Kenny’s success es from his ability to multitask in the kitchen. Hicks said he has asked Kenny to cook with him on jobs three times now, and he presents Kenny as a positive example of a passionate chef to the students in his cooking classes.
“He’s so vigorous (精神饱满的) about cooking that he doesn’t let anything stop him,” Hicks said. “I knew in the first five minutes of working with the kid that he is something special.”
【小题1】How is Kenny different from other students?A．He opened a cooking club in his high school.B．He is famous on the Food Network.C．He owned a food pany at 16.D．He loves to multi-task.【小题2】What does the underlined word “thrives” probably mean?A．works energeticB．grows fastC．learns quicklyD．makes progress【小题3】Which of the following best describes Kenny’s cooking?A．Traditional. B．Creative.C．Simple. D．Strange.【小题4】We can conclude from the article that .A．Kenny proved himself by catering his uncle’s wedding aloneB．Kenny likes to follow his mother’s recipe when cookingC．Kenny was able to cook his first dish in primary schoolD．Kenny’s success in cooking has a lot to do with his familyC
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(答案→)C
解析：这篇短文主要介绍一个十六岁的男孩肯尼是如何创建了自己的是食品公司，并详细的描述了他的性格爱好，告诉我们，有时成功是和性格爱好有很大关系的。
【小题1】根据He also opened his own food pany, called Modern Fusion.及短文描述，可知肯尼与其它学生的不同之处是仅仅十六岁，就拥有了自己的食品公司。故选C。
【小题2】联系下文，He’s in his perfect place when dicing tomatoes, making salads and baking cakes.可知他积极的投入到这些工作中，故选A。
【小题3】通过阅读短文可知肯尼喜欢在食品中加入新的风味，故选B，创造性的。
【小题4】根据Kenny said he developed his love of cooking by watching his mother, and his grandmother, who owned a catering (饮食业) business herself.可知她的母亲也是饮食方面的成功者，故他在饮食业的成功与他的家庭有很大的关系。选D。