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:在紧张的生活节奏下，如何体验下厨的快乐？本文给出了三个建议:提前考虑，让时间有所值以及尝试创新。

1. 考查对语境的理解和概括能力。空格前提到三点ability, money and time，空格后句子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说money的话题下次说，本文主要说时间。很明显空格处是说ability。选B。

2.Think ahead相关。根据选项内容，选G。

3.Make your time worth it，对于空格前的问题的回答必然是否定的。空后说明了原因做一片面包和做更多的面包时间是一样的。选C。

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5.

考点：考查信息匹配