Test 'National Cuisine.reading' Form 11 SB O.Karpyuk Standard level

National Cuisine/Reading     Test

1.               Read the paragraph and choose the item.

1.               Pancakes, often made with soured milk for the lighter batter. Thinner pancakes are rolled and served with a stuffing.

a/ brownie    b/ nalysnyky

2.               Cabbage rolls stuffed with rice and vegetables, or possibly with spiced minced meat.

a/ holubtsi   b/ kholodets

3.               Soup based on beetroot with meat and other vegetables; served with sour cream.

a/ borsch   b/ bograch

4.               Ravioli-like pasta stuffed with potato, cabbage, mushrooms, meat or cheese, or with cherries as a sweet dish.

a/ varenyky  b/ nalysnyky

5.               Pancakes made from grated potatoes and flour, fried and served with sour cream.

a/ deruny   b/ varenyky

6.               Pork fat – no description of Ukrainian cuisine would be complete without it. Especially delicious is the smoked version.

a/ salo   b/ kholodets

2.               Complete the text with the words combinations from the box.

The English like what they like 1/ ________________. They must be able to recognize what they are eating. Usually they like beef steak, roast beef, Yorkshire pudding and roast beef.

Afternoon tea is taken at 5 o’clock, but it can hardly be called a meal. It is a cup of tea and cake or biscuits. At the weekends afternoon tea is a special 2/ ___________. Friends and visitors are often invited to have a chat over a cup of tea.

Dinner is the most 3/ ____________ meal of the day. It is usually eaten at 7 o’clock. The first course may be 4/ _____________ (though the English don’t like it very much). The 5/______________ will often be fish or meat, perhaps the traditional fish and chips of old England, and a lots of vegetables. The next course will be something sweet and often cooked, such as a fruit pie. Last of all there may be cheese, often with biscuits.

It is common knowledge that the English are very fond of tea. They like to have ‘a nice cup of tea’ 6 or 8 times a day, sometimes even more.

On Christmas Day a 6/ _____________ is traditionally cooked for dinner. It is usually followed by roast turkey. Long before Christmas housewives begin to plan what cake to make for Christmas. Usually they make fantastic Christmas cakes.