אנסין באנגלית 4 יחידות (Module C) · טקסט מידע
Why Do Onions Make Us Cry?
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1Few kitchen jobs are as unpleasant as an onion. After a few seconds, your eyes start to , and soon tears are running down your face. For a long time, people believed that onions simply had a strong smell. Today, scientists understand that the onion is actually fighting back.
2An onion grows under the ground, where it can easily be eaten by animals and insects. To protect itself, it has developed a clever chemical . Inside its cells, the onion stores sulfur and, separately, special proteins called . As long as the cells are whole, the two never meet.
3When you cut an onion, however, you break thousands of cells. The mix with the sulfur , and a chain of chemical reactions begins. Within seconds, the onion produces a gas that floats up into the air. When this gas reaches your eyes, it the on their surface. Your brain responds by telling your eyes to produce tears in order to wash the irritating gas away.
4There are several ways to reduce the tears. A sharp knife is a good start, because it cuts cleanly and breaks fewer cells than a one. Putting the onion in the refrigerator for half an hour before cutting it also helps, since cold slows down the chemical reactions. Some cooks cut onions near an open window or under a kitchen fan, which carries the gas away from their faces.
5Scientists in Japan and New Zealand have even developed onions that do not cause tears. Still, many cooks are not worried. For them, a few tears are a small price to pay for the that onions add to almost every dish.
📘 Glossary — מילים מוסברות
- chopping — קיצוץ
- sting — לצרוב, לעקוץ
- defense — הגנה
- compounds — תרכובות
- enzymes — אנזימים
- irritates — מגרה, מציק
- nerves — עצבים
- blunt — קהה
- flavor — טעם
Questions
איתור מידע
1. What did people believe about onions for a long time?הסקת מסקנות
2. What does the writer mean by "the onion is actually fighting back"?איתור מידע
3. Why does the onion need to protect itself?איתור מידע
4. When do the enzymes and the sulfur compounds meet?הפניה (למה המילה מתייחסת)
5. In paragraph 3, the word "it" in "it irritates the nerves" refers to…איתור מידע
6. Why does the brain tell the eyes to produce tears?איתור מידע
7. Give TWO ways to reduce the tears, and explain why ONE of them works.משמעות מילה
8. In paragraph 4, a "blunt" knife is a knife that…מטרה ומבנה
9. What is the purpose of the last paragraph?
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Choose a food that you love or hate. Describe it, explain why you feel this way about it, and say whether you think your feelings could ever change.
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