What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range. Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother. Today about half of the country’s married women are employed outside the home. But, unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that housework. Instead, many have bee, in a sense, prisoners of the pletely cooked convenience meals. It’s easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long , hard day. Also, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, live alone rather than as part of a family unit and don’t want to bother cooking for one.
Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn’t require any dressing up, it offers a “fun” break in the daily outline, and the outlay of money seems small. It can be eaten in the car--- sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out---or on the run. Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of the handy disposable (一次性的) wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it’s finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manner.
【小题1】Americans enjoy fast food mainly because .A．it can be eaten in the carB．it is much more tasty than home-made foodC．one only uses his fingers while eating itD．it is time-saving and convenient【小题2】It can be inferred that children .A．want to have more freedom at tableB．never wash dishes after each mealC．are good at using forks and knives while eatingD．take eating time as a fun break【小题3】 Many Americans are eating out and not cooking at home partially because .A．they want to make a change after eating the same food for years at homeB．the food made outside home tastes better than food cooked at homeC．many of them live alone and don’t like taking trouble to cookD．American women refuse to cook at home due to women’s liberation movement【小题4】According to the text, a drive-in window is a .A．car window from which you can see the driverB．window in the restaurant from which you get your takeout in the carC．place where you check the mechanic condition of your carD．place where you return the used plates after eatingD【小题1】A【小题1】C【小题1】B
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(答案→)D【小题1】A【小题1】C【小题1】B
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