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# 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*