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Everyone who has eaten instant noodles (方便面) before knows how it looks like. It is very easy to cook it instantly by putting the noodles into the boiling water and add in those MSG(味精) packets(小包), together with your other food like eggs or vegetables. However, have you ever wondered whether this is the correct way of cooking it? When you first took out the noodles from the packaging, you will notice that the noodles are joined together nicely as a piece. In order to make the noodles joined together nicely side by side it needs some form of wax coating (石蜡涂层) in order to show an attractive instant noodles in front of us. Many people who enjoy eating instant noodles frequently do not really think too much of it as it seems very normal to everyone to have it nicely shown in front of us. However, researches have shown that the layer (层) of wax coating on the noodles is quite harmful to our body and we should not eat it too frequently. It is advisable to have a break of 2-3 days before we start to eat another packet of instant noodles as our body need about 3 days to clear that layer of wax coating away from our body system. Do you know the danger of having too much wax coating stored in our stomach? It will lead to CANCER if it is stored in our body system for a long period of time.

There are 2 key points to take note while preparing instant noodles:

1) Wash the instant noodles with warm water first, stir(搅和) it and pour away the water containing the wax coating.

2) Repeat Step 1 and try to stir the noodles again to wash away the wax coating on the noodles before cooking it in a new pot of water.

Hope this article will let more people have self-awareness of the hidden danger of instant noodles and thus eat safely and stay healthy.

56. The purpose of the writer is to tell us ______.

A. how the instant noodles are made

B. how to cook instant noodles

C. something about the layer of wax coating on the noodles

D. how to eat instant noodles safely and healthily

57. It is true according to the passage that ______.

A. the instant noodles are joined together in a mess as a piece.

B. it is common to see the noodles nicely joined together.

C. you can eat instant noodles as often as you like.

D. too much wax coating does no harm to our health.

58. Many people don’t care about too much of the wax coating on the instant noodles because _____.

A. they enjoy the taste of the wax coating

B. they take the wax coating for granted

C. they don’t know the hidden danger at all

D. their body clear it faster than other people

59. The function of the wax coating in the instant noodles is to ______.

A. make the noodles more delicious and tasty

B. make it easier to cook for the consumers

C. make the instant noodles healthier and more attractive to the consumers

D. make the noodles joined in a piece and avoid them sticking (粘) together

B

A city bus driver was praised as a hero after he jumped off his bus and snatched a 3-year-old girl from traffic. The bus security cameras showed the girl getting off the bus with a cheery “Bye!” and walking straight into traffic on a busy street. Chris Leslie, 38, is pictured running out the door after her. One view from the bus cameras showed a car making a rapid stop directly in front of Leslie and the girl last week.

“As I grabbed her, I looked as I pulled her back and luckily the car in the next lane had stopped,” he said. “It was probably the first time in my life I was in the right place at the right time.” The girl’s mother was busy in the bus with another child in a stroller (折叠式婴儿车) and the toddler didn’t hear a command to wait. Leslie said the mother and the daughter were still hugging at the bus stop when he pulled away.

Leslie’s wife, Cara, said she knew something had happened when her husband returned home from work that night. She said he immediately grabbed their 2-year-old daughter, Hannah, and gave her a long hug. “He was really scared by it all,” she said. “It’s pretty special,” said general manager of City Utilities, John Twitty. “He put his own life on the line.”

Leslie, an eight-year CU veteran, earned the Driver of the Year award last year. His boss, transit manager Carol Cruise, said the utility’s rules won’t allow him to win it two years in a row (连续两年). “But there’s no reason he couldn’t win it the year after that.”