Potatoes are nutritious. They are rich in（富含） vitamin B and vitamin C. A potato’s vitamin C is as rich as（和……一樣豐富） 10 apples.

Potatoes are easy to grow. They don’t need much water. We can grow them in hot or cold places.

nutritious /nju?tr???s/ adj.有營養(yǎng)的 vitamin /?vIt?min/ n.維生素

Peru /p??r?/ n.秘魯（拉丁美洲國家名） national /?n??n?l/ adj.國家的

mashed /m??t/ adj.搗碎的 million /?m?lj?n/ n.百萬

People in Peru have National Potato Day every year. There are a lot of potato dishes in the country. One of them is Causa. Causa is mashed potatoes（土豆泥） with seafood or vegetables.

Potato chips（薯片） and French fries（炸薯條） are popular in the US. An American made the first potato chip in 1853. His name is George Crum. Now Americans eat about 544 million kg of potato chips a year.

Fish and Chips（炸魚薯條） is a national dish of the UK. Jacket Potato（杰克薯仔） is also a British favorite. It is a baked potato. There are usually beans and cheese on the top.Yummy！

People in Russia love to eat potatoes. Salad Oliver is a must for their New Year feast. It’s a kind of potato salad. There’re potatoes， carrots， peas and onions in it.

Jacket Potato源自英國，中文意譯為“穿著夾克的薯仔”，就是帶著皮一起烤的土豆。它在英國已經(jīng)有兩百多年的歷史。在倫敦，每天會售出數(shù)以十噸計的Jacket Potato。

baked /be?kt/ adj.烤過的 bean /bi?n/ n.豆子

Russia /?r???/ n.俄羅斯 feast /fi?st/ n.宴會，大餐

pea /pi?/ n.豌豆 island /?a?l?nd/ n.島嶼

There are about 5，000 kinds of potatoes. They come in different colors.

La Bonnotte potatoes are the world’s most expensive ones. They can be 4，000 yuan per kg. They only grow on an island in France.

couch potato電視迷

例如：You are a couch potato on weekends. （一到周未，你就變成了電視迷。）

hot potato難題

例如：It is a hot potato. But we need to solve the problem today. （這是個難題，但我們今天得解決掉。）