With the Spring Festival just around the corner, the festive flavor is strong at the Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall, where time-honored restaurants and food stores have started offering a variety of nianhuo (New Year goods) with an innovative approach.
The Sunya Cantonese Restaurant, decorated with red lanterns, is packed with consumers who are storing up goods for the festival. The restaurant is giving a creative approach to songgao (a soft and fluffy rice cake with red bean paste filling), a traditional Spring Festival dessert, this year.
“We made some adjustments by adding sweet purple potato and shredded coconut into the snack to enrich its flavor, fragrance and color,” said Executive Chef Huang Renkang, who has been in the dining industry for nearly 40 years. “Traditional recipes for songgao make it rich in sugar and oil, but we reduced its sweetness by adjusting the percentage of ingredients and made it more healthy,” he said.
Huang’s team started developing the new recipe four months ago, with the new flavor songgao proving to be more popular than traditional types. About 1,000 handmade songgao of the new flavor are available every day, all of which are sold out by around 3 pm.
“I don’t like sweet snacks, and the new one tastes more exquisite and light in flavor,” said Jin, a Shanghai resident in her 50s who tried the new flavor and came back for more.

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1.Why is the Sunya Cantonese Restaurant full of customers?

A They want to learn to make songgao.

B They are busy buying goods there for the Spring Festival.

C They want to get the new-style dessert for free.

D They are attracted by the beautiful red lanterns.

解析：选B。细节理解题。根据第二段第一句The Sunya Cantonese Restaurant, decorated with red lanterns, is packed with consumers who are storing up goods for the festival.可知这家餐馆中挤满消费者的原因是他们正在为春节置办年货，故选B。

2.What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to?

A Sweet purple potato.

B Shredded coconut.

C Recipe.

D Songgao.

解析：选D。词意指代题。根据第三段画线句子所在的语境可知it在此指代的是“松糕”，故选D。

3.Which of the following is NOT the fact according to the passage?

A Songgao in the Sunya Cantonese Restaurant is a new Spring Festival dessert.

B Huang Renkang is an executive chef with forty years of experience in the food industry.

C The new kind of songgao doesn’t taste too sweet but is healthier than the traditional one.

D The handmade songgao of the new flavor are very popular with the consumers.

解析：选A。细节理解题。根据第二段第二句The restaurant is giving a creative approach to songgao (a soft and fluffy rice cake with red bean paste filling), a traditional Spring Festival dessert, this year. 可知松糕是一种传统的春节甜点，而非新推出的产品，故选A。

4.What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A This woman couldn’t eat any sweet snacks at all.

B This woman liked the new flavor songgao very much.

C This woman has lived in Shanghai for about 50 years.

D This woman would be in love with sweet snacks after tasting the new flavor songgao.

解析：选B。推理判断题。根据最后一段的内容可知这位上海女士虽然不喜欢甜食，但新口味的松糕味道清淡，她尝了之后又返回来买更多的松糕，由此可知她很喜欢这款松糕，故选B。

5.What does this passage mainly talk about?

A The Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall has many time-honored restaurants.

B What the difference between the traditional and new songgao is.

C Nanjing Road Pedestrian Mall’s festive flavor takes on creative approach.

D How the new flavor songgao was developed by Huang’s team.

解析：选C。主旨大意题。通读全文可知，文章的第一段体现了本文的中心内容，即在春节来临之际上海南京路步行街的年味处处呈现着创新的气息，后文以一家老字号粤菜馆推出新口味松糕，并大受欢迎对这一现象进行了佐证，故选C。