Rice

Common expressions

  • grow rice

  • eat rice

  • wash rice

  • served with rice

  • boiled / fried rice

  • a bowl of rice

  • a grain of rice

  • a diet of rice

Exercise

Common expressions

  1. The refugees are living on a simple diet of rice and fish. - g

  2. She gave me a large bowl of rice and a pair of chopsticks. - e

  3. Make sure you wash the rice thoroughly before cooking it. - d

  4. I think curry is best served with boiled rice or fried rice. - c

  5. It is a fact that rice is eaten by more than half of the world's population. - b

  6. Unfortunately, the country can't grow enough rice to feed its people. - a

  7. The bag of rice had a hole in it, so grains of rice fell all over the kitchen floor. -f

Notes

  1. There are lots of different kinds of rice:

  • brown rice - 糙米

  • basmati - 印度香米

  • white rice - 精米,长粒白米

  • long-grain rice - 长粒大米

  • short-grain rice - 短粒大米

  1. Rice pudding is rice boiled with milk and sugar.

  2. A rice dish is a dish made with rice:

    Risotto is a kind of rice dish. long-grain rice short-grain rice

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