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It is easy to make a delicious-looking hamburger at home. But would this hamburger still look delicious after it sat on your kitchen table under very bright lights for six or seven hours? If someone took a picture or made a video of this hamburger after the seventh hour, would anyone want to eat it? These are the questions that fast food companies worry about when they produce commercials. Video and photoshoot often last many hours. Because of this, the menu items in fast-food commercials are probably not actually edible. As an example, the first step towards building the perfect commercial hamburger is the bun. The food stylist-a person employed by the company to make sure the products look perfect-sorts through hundreds of buns until he or she finds one with no wrinkles. Next, the stylist carefully rearranges the sesame seeds on the bun using glue and tweezers for maximum visual appeal. The bun is then sprayed with a waterproofing solution so that it will not get soggy from contact with other ingredients, the lights, or the humidity in the room. Next, the food stylist shapes a meat patty into a perfect circle and paints the outside with a mixture of oil, molasses, and brown food coloring. Grill marks are either painted on or seared into the meat using hot metal skewers. Finally, the food stylist searches through dozens of tomatoes and heads of lettuce to find the best-looking produce. One leaf of the crispest lettuce and one center slice of the reddest tomato are selected and then sprayed with glycerin to keep them looking fresh. So the next time you see a delectable hamburger in a fast-food commercial, remember: you're actually looking at glue, paint, raw meat, and glycerin!
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According to the passage, a food stylist working on a hamburger commercial might use glue to
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According to the passage, the author notes that a food stylist uses glue and tweezers to carefully rearrange “the sesame seeds on the bun for maximum visual appeal.”
Based on information in the passage, it is most important for the lettuce and tomato used in a fast-food hamburger commercial to
The author claims that a food stylist looking for the perfect lettuce and tomato searches for the “crispest lettuce” and “the reddest tomato.” The food stylist then sprays the lettuce and tomato with glycerin “to keep them looking fresh.” From these sentences, we can understand that freshness is the most important quality when the food stylist deals with lettuce and tomatoes.
As used in the final paragraph, which is the best synonym for 'delectable'?
Delectable (adjective): Greatly pleasing to the taste; Delicious. Synonyms are words that have nearly the same meanings. In the final paragraph, the author writes: “So the next time you see a delectable hamburger in a fast-food commercial,
'She finds one with no wrinkles' implies that she was looking for something
The food stylist—a person employed by the company to make sure the products look perfect—sorts through hundreds of buns until he or she finds one with no wrinkles.
Here, the hamburger 'will not get soggy' when it is left
The bun is then sprayed with a waterproofing solution so that it will not get soggy from contact with other ingredients, the lights, or the humidity in the room.
The state of being the 'crispest' means very
The state of being the 'crispest' means very fresh. In other words crispest means firm or easily broken or crumbled.
'Seared into' the meat means the design is
'Seared into' the meat means is burnt into. Clearly, the line 'Grill marks are either painted on or seared into the meat using hot metal skewers' justifies the meaning.
The author's primary purpose is to
The author poses a series of questions about how to keep a hamburger looking delicious for hours under hot lights the conditions used during photo shoots “can cause the food to look quite unappealing to potential consumers. Because of this, the menu items that you see in fast food commercials are probably not actually edible.”
As used in paragraph 2, something is 'edible' if it
Edible (adjective): suitable for a human being to eat; eatable in paragraph 2, the author states that “the menu items that you see in fast food commercials are probably not actually edible.” In the rest of the passage, the author explains that the food used in fast food commercials contains things like glue, paint, and raw meat, which are not things that people should eat.
A textbook can serve different purposes for teachers:
The textbook plays an important role in teaching and learning. Textbook adaptations at the activity level, unit level, and syllabus level are an integral part of the course-developing process which assists the teacher in meeting the learners’ specific work-related needs. So, options A and C are correct regarding the textbooks.
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