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Improve your Gaokao English listening skills with the short passage 'Balanced Diet.' Master 3500 high-frequency words through immersive listening and natural English expressions, making exam preparation easier.

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MP3 audio reading and synchronized English text help you efficiently master 3500 words through immersive learning. Each short passage is closely related to Gaokao scenarios, with clear pronunciation and key vocabulary explanations, enabling you to improve listening skills, consolidate vocabulary, and enhance language sense through repeated listening. Practice one passage a day, and easily overcome the Gaokao English listening challenge! Let your ears 'remember' words and make English learning more natural! Here is today’s content from the series of 40 English short passages to master 3500 words for Gaokao immersive listening. Keep accumulating, and make your English closer to real life!

Wong Ping earned his living by running a barbecue restaurant, which served delicious bacon, fried chicken breast and mutton roasted with pepper and garlic. But his food and discount attracted fewer and fewer customers. Finally, he was in debt.

Young Huey's slimming restaurant served fresh peas, carrots, eggplants, and raw cucumbers with vinegar. As the hostess, she said fibers benefited customers digestion the most. In order not to let Young Huey get away with telling lies, Wong Ping spied on Young Huey despite her glare. But he was surprised that she was losing her customers, too.

Curiosity drove Wong Ping to consult an expert. The expert sighed and said, both of your menus have weakness and limited strength. Your customers put on weight too easily, while Young Huey's lose weight too quickly.

So, Wong Ping cut down the fat of your food and increased vegetables and fruits, like nuts, beans, mushrooms, peaches, and lemons. You ought to combine the two menus and provide a balanced diet.

Before long, Wong Ping won his customers back.

This is a selection organized by Qicaiwang to help you with the 40 English short passages to master 3500 words for Gaokao immersive listening. Hope it helps you!


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  • barbecue

    noun

    1. a rack to hold meat for cooking over hot charcoal usually out of doors

    Synonym: barbeque

    2. a cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire
    especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit

    Synonym: barbeque

    3. meat that has been barbecued or grilled in a highly seasoned sauce

    Synonym: barbeque