19．Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity chefs like Gordon Rams——青夏教育精英家教网—

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．

18．"Some secrets are hidden from health，"wrote John Updike in his poem"Fever"．
I have experienced the truth of Updike's observation．My excellent health kept me from seeing some things-things that became secrets of sort．
One relates to my son Chris．When I lost my health in March，I discovered something I had missed about him．
Christopher has been a scholar and athlete through high school．He has behaved responsibly，engaged in community service．He has had an impressive peer group of serious students．
While I saw these things，I had missed before what I experienced while in hospital．Early on，Christopher offered the clearest and most forceful words about my need to be positive and to fight acute leukemia（急性白血病）．He never left the room after a visit without making me promise that I would be mentally tough and positive．
During the first week，he showed his own mental toughness，researching leukemia and learning what the chances were．He even stopped my doctor outside the room，introduced himself and asked directly what he hought of my chances．He processed the answer without overreaction．
Christopher did admonish（劝告） me against my choice of words the first week at home．I had moved back into my room from weighing myself，discovering a thin figure I did not know．I announced to him and my wife，"dead man walking"．I thought it was a way to lighten the obvious．He saw it as negativity and was strongly against such thinking and talking．
When I resisted taking medicine sometimes，Christopher formed a"good-cop-bad-cop"team with his mother．Betsy gently and patiently encouraged．He directly and forcefully insisted．He always made the logical arguments for why I needed to take some awful pills．
My health had hidden something from me； my ill-health helped me to see it．

21．What did Christopher do when the author was in hospital？C
A．He told the author not to say anything wrong．
B．He offered some suggestions to the doctor．
C．He always encouraged the author to be confident．
D．He tried to get help from community service．
22．What does"good-cop-bad-cop"in the text refer to？D
A．A trick to force the author to obey．
B．A measure to keep the author happy．
C．A friendly way to make the author see what was good for him．
D．A joint effort to persuade the author both kindly and forcefully．
23．What may be the best title for the text？C
A．Lessons from Ill-health
B．Unexpected Love
C．Secrets Hidden from Health
D．Discovery Made in Hospital．

17．Our top priorities must be profit and commercial （商业的） growth．

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