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Do you like eating instant noodles (方便面)? The food is easy to make and cheap to buy. People have celebrated its 60th birthday this year. It was 1. by a Japanese businessman Momofuku Ando in 1958.
China is the biggest2. for instant noodles. It can be a snack for students, a meal on a train, or just a choice for 3. workers. More than 46.2 billion instant noodles packets were sold on the Chinese mainland and Hong Kong in 2013, a BBC article reported. But by 2016. those 4. had dropped to 38.5 billion packets, according to the World Instant Noodles Association.
One of the reasons for the drop could be the rise of online food delivery services. They can bring you food wherever you are. They also 5. more choices and tastier food. According to a 2016 survey by China Youth Daily, about 70 percent of young people order meals online 6. once a week.
In order to solve this problem, instant noodles companies are trying to 7. their products. They are making instant noodles with less fat and salt. They are also making new products, including self-heating hotpot and instant rice. Those can meet the needs of young people. They hope that instant noodles will be 8. again.
Will instant noodles disappear one day? We don't know. But they have surely left a mark on dining history.
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It's a school day morning. You are dressing yourself in the bedroom. At the same time, you are thinking about taking your schoolbag from the living room. But when you walk through your bedroom door and into the living room, you suddenly forget w1. you are there and just don't know what to do.
Most people would think they have a poor m2.. But scientists believe that the act of walking through doorways makes them forget things. They call it the "doorway effect".
The scientists from the University of Notre Dame in the US did an e3.. They placed several objects into two rooms. The students had to put an object from Room A into a shoebox and then carried it to Room B through a doorway. In Room B, they exchanged it for another object and brought it back to Room A in the shoebox. Then the students were asked to do the same things w4. crossing though a doorway.
During the period of time, the scientists would randomly (随机地) ask the students which object was in their shoebox at the moment. The scientists found their answers were slower and less c5. when they walked through a doorway and into a new room
"A doorway is just like a boundary (分界线) in the mind," the lead scientist Gabriel Radavansky told Scientific American. Setting "boundaries" in our minds can cause us to forget things e6.. For example, when you walk into the living room, your brain thinks the act of getting your schoolbag is already "done" and it moves on.
Is there a way to s7. the "doorway effect? Writing down what you need before going into another room might be helpful.
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