For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the
correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line. For a
missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a "∧" sign and
write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the
line. For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word
with a slash "—" and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the
line.
Our real American foods have come from our. soil and have been
used by many groups. The Native Americans already had developed an interested
(1)______ cuisine using the
abundant foods that were so prevalent. The influence that the
English had in our national eating habits is
(2)______ easy to see. They were a tough lot and they ate in a
tough manner. They wiped their mouths on the tablecloth, if there happened to
be one, and they ate before you would expect them to burst. European
travelers to (3)______ this
country in those days were most often shocked by American drinking
(4)______ habits, which included too much salt
and too much liquor. Not much has changed! And, the Revolutionists refused to
use the fork since it marked them Europeans. The fork was not absolutely
common on the
(5)______ European dinner table until about the time of the Civil War.
(6)______ Other immigrant groups added to their own touches to
the preparation (7)______ of our New World
food products. The term melting pot was first used in return to America in
the late 1700s,so this belief that we would
(8)______ all become the same has been with us for a long time. Thank
goodness it has ever worked. The various immigrant groups continue to add
flavor to (9)______ the pot,
all right, but you can pick out the individual flavors easily.
The smallest ancestry group in America is the English. There are
(10)______ more people in America
who claim to have come from English blood than there are in ]England. But is
their food English No, it is not; It is American.