英语听力短文19 A Fast Breakfast

 　　She was in a hurry. She wanted something fast for breakfast. He told her to have milk and cereal¹. She said that milk upset her stomach. "Don't you know that by now?" she asked. He said there was soybean milk in the refrigerator. "What kind of cereal do we have?" she asked. He told her they had Grape Nuts and Shredded² Wheat. "Yuck!" she said. "Don't we have anything tasty?" He said that a spoonful of sugar would make the cereal taste better. "But sugar might raise my cholesterol³," she said. He said that sugar doesn't raise cholesterol—meat does. "If you really want to lower your cholesterol, you should stop eating meat," he said. She said she loved meat. She would never stop eating meat. Meat was much more important to her than her cholesterol level. "If someone invented steak cereal, I'd eat three bowls a day!" she said.

1 cereal   

n.谷类，五谷，禾谷

参考例句：

• I have hot cereal every day for breakfast.我每天早餐吃热麦片粥。
• Soybeans are handled differently from cereal grains.大豆的加工处理与谷类的加工处理不同。

2 shredded   

shred的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• Serve the fish on a bed of shredded lettuce. 先铺一层碎生菜叶，再把鱼放上，就可以上桌了。
• I think Mapo beancurd and shredded meat in chilli sauce are quite special. 我觉得麻婆豆腐和鱼香肉丝味道不错。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 cholesterol   

n.（U）胆固醇

参考例句：

• There is cholesterol in the cell of body.人体细胞里有胆固醇。
• They are determining the serum-protein and cholesterol levels.他们正在测定血清蛋白和胆固醇的浓度。