Food is different from area to area. The French are famous for their sauces, the Italians

praised 【C1】______ their pasta-food from mixture of flour, eggs and water, the Germans 【C2】______ for their sausages, but is there anything 【C3】______ to eat in the United States？ When you get right down to it, there's nothing quite as 【C4】______ as American food. Because the United States 【C5】______ mostly of immigrants, there is an amazing variety of foods. The United States is a vast country 【C6】______ by many cultures and climates, and the 【C7】______ food of one area is often totally 【C8】______ that of another. New Mexico and Massachusetts are good examples of 【C9】______ that have very different traditional foods.

To understand and 【C10】______ the food in any one region, it often helps to know the area's history. For example, New Mexico was 【C11】______ the home of the Pueblo Indians who lived in villages and grew native 【C12】______ such as corn, beans, and pumpkins.Later, Spanish 【C13】______ arrived in this area. These two groups exchanged ideas and customs and passed the 【C14】______ on to their descendants. This intermingling (混合) of cultures is 【C15】______ in the food of New Mexico.

Each region of the United States is unique. Lousiana has a French 【C16】______ . Many Germans populate the Midwest. In 【C17】______ around America, a tourist has the 【C18】______ not only to visit a variety of places and see diverse 【C19】______ , but to taste a variety of roods as well.

Some may be very different. Others will taste just 【C20】______ home.

【C1】

A．with

B．of

C．for

D．at