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M: Mom,I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the food in India.Ever since I got back from my trip,I’ve been dying for some real Indian food.(13) But there’s nothing around here.No restaurants serve the kinds of dishes I ate there.I’d have to go to a big city to find anything that comes close.In our town,they don’t even make spicy food!
W: Well,Drew,why don’t you try making your own? (14)
M: I wish I could! But I wouldn’t know where to start.
W: I’ll help you look online for some recipes.
M: How will we know which ones are good?
W: We’ll try them,of course! After some practice,we’ll be able to tell which ones we’ll like best.
M: But I doubt we’ll find everything we need in the grocery stores.I’m sure they use many unusual spices in India.
W: We will start simply.I know I’ve seen some Thai spices at the market — maybe some of them will be useful.If we find that those aren’t enough,we can order some online.There must be Indian grocery stores somewhere in America that will ship them.(15) If worse comes to worst,I’ll ask my brother in New York to look around.(16) He should be able to find a place that sells Indian spices!
M: Thanks,Mom! (16) This is gonna be fun! I can’t wait to start cooking!
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Whoever dreamed up the idea of a subway knew what it means to live in a city.Study the faces of the subway riders,and you’ll see what I mean.They are all traveling in a busy world that exists under another busy world.The New York subway is one of the largest public transportation systems in the world.It is also one of the oldest—it has been underneath this city for 110 years now.(17) I’ve been riding it for half that time.When I was a kid,there wasn’t any fear—only adventure.Subways were for dreaming.And I would stand at the window of the front car and dream through the great network of tunnels,watching the red and green lights go by.A subway is like a secret,a child’s game. You go in one hole and you come out another.You move fast—much faster than a taxi,or walking or running.Years ago,a woman named Rosie Ruiz tried to steal a victory in the New York marathon by taking a subway to the finish line.(18) Rosie was right.The subway was faster.In the 1960s,the subway got to be a dangerous place.(19) Subways have been made a great deal safer since then.I think what people like most about the subway, apart from basic transportation,still comes from the magic feeling of rushing around fast in a train underground. (20)
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