Question

 

Tips for cooking on a Tight Schedule

From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time, __1.__Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule:

1. Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I‘m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think about of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials ready?___ 2.___

2. Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread? ___3.___ it takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.

3. ___4.____ This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation. It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.

Hopefully that gives you a good start. ___5.___ and don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!

A. Try new things.

B. Ability is easily improved.

C. Make three or four instead.

D. Understand your food better.

E. Cooking is a burden for many people.

F. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden.

G. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

 

Answer 1

1.B

2.G

3.C

4.A

5.F

【解析】

试题分析：这是一篇对行程紧的情况下作的烹调的建议的说明文。

1.总的概述。从后面的句子来看，money叙述了，time也叙述了。只有ability没有叙述。又根据前面的句子的说明From my experience, there are three main reasons for why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time.，与之有关的只有带有ability这一信息了，故选B。

2.2】预先思考。根据此段开头的关键词ahead，可以判断出此段与ahead有关，故选G。

3.3】时间的有所价值。根据Are you making one loaf of bread?这句话，可以判断出要make one loaf of bread,那就是与数量有关，还有后面的句子中的amount（量）的提示。故选C。

4.4】此题考查要点关键词。根据此段的具体内容，特别是It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes that can work well with your appetite and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.这两句，提到了new ideas和try, 可以判断出与new有关，故选A。

5.5】此段是全文的总结。根据最后一句And don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!可以判断出此项与live有关。故选F。

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