文档介绍：美文赏析
Early this year lawmakers in Maine put forward① a bill to make the whoopie pie their state's official now bakers in Pennsylvania are crying say the whoopie pie was invented in their state,not in state gets to call the tasty treat its own?
A whoopie pie is like a cake sandwich:two small round chocolate cakes stuck together by a layer of soft vegetable frosting(糖霜).Many states have different official symbols,like state birds,state flowers,or even state fruits or official state vegetable of Texas is the sweet California, the state's official marine fish is the colorful garibaldi.
To make a new symbol② official,state lawmakers have to pass a law starts as a bill,or a proposed③ lawmakers vote for or against the Maine,if a majority vote in favor of a bill in both the State Senate and State House of Representatives,the bill es law. But first,lawmakers have to prove that a symbol belongs to their Paul Davis decided to write the whoopie bill after talking to enthusiastic foodlovers at last year's Maine Whoopie Pie thought making it Maine's official treat would make his state than 4,000 Maine residents came out to eat whoopie pies that state even celebrates Whoopie Pie Day each June.
One bakery in Maine claims the pie has been baked in their ovens since no one knows for sure which state made the treat month, protesters④ in Lancaster,Pennsylvania,gathered against Maine's bill.“Generations and generations have been making and eating whoopie pies here in Lancaster,”one protester said.“My grandmother did in the 30s and 40s and her mother did before her.”
Which state will win?Maine's bill has not been signed into law yet—but no matter what happens,the whoopie pie is a winner in both states.
【解题导语】缅因州和宾夕法尼亚州都宣称无比派起源于该州,缅因州欲立法使这种美味成为它的标志物,然而宾夕法尼亚州表示强烈的抗议。
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①put forward 提出
②symbol ,标志
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