What, exactly, is pepperoni? It is an air-dried【B1】______sausage with a few distinctive characteristics: It is fine-grained, lig

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问题     What, exactly, is pepperoni? It is an air-dried【B1】______sausage with a few distinctive characteristics: It is fine-grained, lightly【B2】______, bright red and relatively soft. But one thing it is not: Italian.
    John Mariani, a food writer and【B3】______, has just published a book with the modest title: "How Italian Food Conquered the World". The first【B4】______to pepperoni in print is from 1919, Mr. Mariani said, the period when【B5】______and Italian butcher shops began to flourish here.
    Hormel is the biggest-selling brand, and in the run-up to the Super Bowl this Sunday, the company has sold enough pepperoni (40 million feet) to【B6】______all the way through the planet Earth, said Holly Drennan, a product manager.
    Michael Ruhlman, an expert in meat【B7】______ who is writing a book on Italian salumi, doesn’t flinch from calling pepperoni pizza a "bastard" dish, a【B8】______reflection of wholesome tradition. "Bread, cheese and salami is a good idea," he said. 【B9】"______." He prefers lardo or a fine-grained salami, very thinly sliced, then laid over pizza as it comes out of the oven rather than cooked in the oven.【B10】______.
    No one is claiming that pepperoni is difficult to find. Opinion is divided on whether a slice of the stuff should curl when cooked, or lie flat.【B11】______
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答案distorted

解析 这个单词有一定难度,distort表示“扭曲,曲解”的意思,该空中用了动词过去分词作形容词。
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