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19.Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人) chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver,according to a report from Oxford University.
The effect of the celebrity role models,who have given cooking a more manly picture,has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.
According to the research by Prof.Jonatahn Gershuny,who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford,men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking,up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.
Prof.Gershuny said,"The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend.There has been 40yars of sexual equality,but there is another 40years probably to com."
Women,who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking,now sped just one hour and seven minutes-a great fall,but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men.
Some experts have named these men in aprons as"Gastrosexuals (men using cooking skills to impress friends)",who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by the success of Ramsay,Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall,Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.
"I was married in 1974.When my father came to visit me a few weeks later,I was wearing an apron when I opened the door.He laughed,"said Prof.Gershuny."That would never happen now."
Two-thirds of adults say that they come together to share at least three times a week,even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table.Prof.Gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a table-with many"family meals"in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room,and shared by family members."The family meal has changed a lot,and few of us eat-as I did when I was a child-at least two meals a day together as a family.But it has survived in a different format."

28.What is one reason behid the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?D
A.The improvement of cooks'status.
B.The influence of popular female chefs.
C.The change of female's view on cooking.
D.The development of sexual equality campaign.
29.What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?B
A.Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.
B.Women spend much less time on cooking than before.
C.It will take 40years before men spend more time at the stove than women.
D.There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.
30.How did Prof.Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?B
A.It has become a thing of the past.
B.It is very different from what it used to be.
C.It shouldn't be advocated in modern times.
D.It is beneficial to the stability of the family.
31.Which is the best title for the passage?C
A.The Changes of Family Meals
B.Equality between Men and Women
C.Cooking into a New Trend for Men
D.Cooking-a Thing of the Past for Women.

分析 本文为科教类阅读,因受名厨的激励,再加上性别平等问题变得普遍,如今男性下厨的时间越来越多.

解答 DBBC
28 D.细节理解题:从文章第二段的句子"The effect of the celebrity role models,who have given cooking a more manly picture,has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961"可知,越来越多男性下厨房的一个原因是性别平等问题变得越来越普遍,选D.
29  B.细节理解题:从文章第五段的句子"Women,who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking,now spend just one hour and seven minutes-a great fall,but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men"可知,作者认为女子花在做饭上的时间比过去少了,选B.
30  B.细节理解题:从文章最后一段的句子"The family meal has changed a lot,and few of us eat-as I did when I was a child-at least two meals a day together as a family.But it has survived in a different format."可知,Prof.Gershuny 认为家庭的聚餐和过去不一样了,选B.
3  C.主旨大意题:从全篇文章和第一段的句子"Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人) chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver"可知,这篇文章讲的是男性下厨成新潮流,选C.

点评 一、速读全文,了解大意知主题.
  阅读能力一般指阅读速度和理解能力两个方面.阅读速度是阅读最基本的能力.考生必须在十分有限的时间内运用略读、扫读、跳读等技巧快速阅读,搜寻关键词、主题句,捕捉时空、顺序、情节、人物、观点,并且理清文章脉络,把握语篇实质.
二、看题干,带着问题读文章.
  首先要掌握问题的类型,客观信息题可以从文章中直接找到答案;而主观判断题考查的是对文章的感情基调等,这类题必须经过对作者的态度、意图以及对整篇文章进行深一层的推理等.其次,了解试题题干以及各个选项所包含的信息,然后有针对性地对文章进行扫读,对有关信息进行快速定位.此法加强了阅读的针对性,提高了做题的准确率.
  三、逻辑推理,做好深层理解题.
  在实际阅读中,有时作者并未把意图说出来,阅读者要根据字面意思,通过语篇逻辑关系,研究细节的暗示,推敲作者的态度,理解文章的寓义.要求读者对文字的表面信息进行分析、挖掘和逻辑推理,不能就事论事,以偏概全.推理题在提问中常用的词有:infer,imply,suggest,indicate等.
  四、猜词悟义,扫除阅读拦路虎.
  猜词是应用英语的重要能力.它不但需要准确无误地理解上下文,而且要有较大的泛读量,掌握或认识较多的课外词汇.我们要学会"顺藤摸瓜",通过构词,语法,定义,同位,对比,因果,常识,上下文等线索确定词义.

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