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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 40 years of sexual equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come.”
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.
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.”
小题1:What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?
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. |
A.Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays. |
B.Women spend much less time on cooking than before. |
C.It will take 40 years 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. |
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. |
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 |
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:B
小题4:C
解析
试题分析:文章介绍受名厨的激励再加上性别平等问题变得更为普遍,如今男性下厨的时间越来越多。
小题1:细节题: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.可知越来越多的男子下厨房的一个原因是性别平等问题的运动,选D
小题2:细节题: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
小题3:细节题: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
小题4:标题确定题:从全篇文章和第一段的句子:可知这篇文章讲的是男性下厨成新潮流,选C。
核心考点
试题【Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人) 】;主要考察你对题材分类等知识点的理解。[详细]
举一反三
Now, Truss and I disagree on what it means to have “zero tolerance”. She thinks that people who mix up basic grammar “deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked (砍) up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave”, while I just think they deserve to be passed over for a job – even if they are otherwise qualified for the position.
Everyone who applies for a position at either of my companies, iFixit or Dozuki, takes a compulsory grammar test. If job hopefuls can’t distinguish between “to” and “too”, their applications go into the bin.
Of course, we write for a living. iFixit.com is the world’s largest online repair manual (指南), and Dozuki helps companies write their own technical documentation, like paperless work instructions and step-by-step user manuals. So, it makes sense that we’ve made a strong strike against grammar errors.
But grammar is relevant for all companies. Yes, language is constantly changing, but that doesn’t make grammar unimportant. Good grammar is credibility, especially on the Internet. And, for better or worse, people judge you if you can’t tell the difference between “their” “there” and “they’re”.
Good grammar makes good business sense – and not just when it comes to hiring writers. Writing isn’t in the official job description of most people in our office. Still, we give our grammar test to everybody, including our salespeople, our operations staff, and our programmers.
Grammar signifies more than just a person’s ability to remember high school English. I’ve found that people who make fewer mistakes on a grammar test also make fewer mistakes when they are doing something completely unrelated to writing – like stocking shelves or labeling parts. It is the same with programmers. Applicants who don’t think writing is important are likely to think lots of other things also aren’t important.
小题1:The author agrees with Lynne Truss in that ________.
A.grammar mistakes can’t be tolerated |
B.books on grammar make people stupid |
C.people need to learn basic grammar |
D.grammar mistakes are absolutely unavoidable |
A.They should be left out for a job. |
B.They have to correct their mistakes. |
C.They aren’t qualified for their jobs. |
D.They must be severely punished. |
A.Only one of them has a compulsory grammar test. |
B.They are companies where one learns grammar. |
C.Grammar is quite important for their existence. |
D.They depend on grammar correction for a living. |
A.Companies giving grammar tests may have no good business sense. |
B.Grammar becomes unimportant as language is constantly changing. |
C.A “zero tolerance” approach to grammar errors might seem a little unfair. |
D.People who pay attention to writing may pay attention to other things. |
While Henry Hitchings of the Los Angeles Times admits that good manners can reduce social conflict, he points out that mostly their purpose is protective – they turn our natural warrior-like selves into more elegant ones.
So where did table manners come from?
In medieval England, a writer named Petrus Alfonsi took the lead to urge people not to speak with their mouths full. And King David I of Scotland also proposed that any of his people who learned to eat more neatly be given a tax deduction (减除).
Disappointingly, that idea never caught on. It was during the Renaissance, when there were real technical developments, opinions of correct behavior changed for good. “None of these was more significant than the introduction of the table fork,” wrote Hitchings. “Gradually, as forks became popular, they brought the new way of eating, making it possible, for instance, to consume berries without making one’s fingers dirty.”
Forks were introduced to Britain in 1608 and 25 years later, the first table fork reached America. Yet while most of the essentials (基本要素) are the same on both sides of the Atlantic, there are a few clear differences between what’s normal in the US and what holds true in the UK. For example, in the US, when food needs cutting with a knife, people generally cut a bite, then lay aside the knife and switch the fork to their right hand. Then they pick up one bite at a time. By contrast, Britons keep the fork in the left hand and don’t lay the knife down.
Though globalization has developed a new, simpler international standard of table manners, some people still stick with the American cut-and-switch method.The Los Angeles Times noted, “They are hanging on to a form of behavior that favors manners above efficiency.”
小题1:What does the story mainly talk about?
A.The importance of proper table manners . |
B.The development of table manners in Western countries. |
C.Some unwritten rules of table manners in the US and UK. |
D.Differences between American and British table manners. |
A.worked in practice | B.became popular |
C.drew attention | D.had a positive effect |
A.The introduction of forks. |
B.The tax deduction policy. |
C.The rise of the Renaissance. |
D.Petrus Alfonsi’s efforts in promoting table manners. |
A.British and American table manners are completely different from each other. |
B.American people pay more attention to their table manners than British people do. |
C.With globalization, the American cut-and-switch method has been abandoned in the US. |
D.British people’s way of using a knife and fork may be more efficient than American people’s. |
Judy Kaczynski is president of an anti-bullying group called Bully Police USA.Her daughter Tina was the victim of severe bullying starting in middle school in the state of Minnesota.She said, "Our daughter was a very outgoing child.She was a bubbly personality, very involved in all kinds of things, had lots of friends.And over a period of time her grades fell completely.She started having health issues.She couldn"t sleep.She wasn"t eating.She had terrible stomach pains.She started clenching her jaw and grinding her teeth at night.She didn"t want to go to school."
Bullying is defined as negative behavior repeated over time against the same person. It can involve physical violence.Or it can be verbal — for example, insults or threats.Spreading lies about someone or excluding a person from a group is known as social or relational bullying.
And now there is cyberbullying, which uses the Internet, e-mail or text messages.It has easy appeal for the bully because it does not involve face-to-face contact and it can be done at any time.
The first serious research studies into bullying were done in Norway in the late 1970s.The latest government study in the United States was released last year.It found that about one-third of students age twelve to eighteen were bullied at school.
Susan Sweater is a psychologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and co-director of the Bullying Research Network.She says schools should treat bullying as a mental health problem to get bullies and victims the help they need.She says bullying is connected to depression, anxiety and anti-social behavior, and bullies are often victims themselves.
小题1:From the case of Tina, we can know that .
A.bullying is rare | B.victims suffered a lot |
C.schools are to blame | D.personalities are related |
A.To beat someone repeatedly. |
B.To call someone names. |
C.To isolate someone from friends. |
D.To refuse to help someone in need. |
A.Because it can involve more people. |
B.Because it can create worse effects. |
C.Because it is more convenient. |
D.Because it can avoid cheating. |
A.bullies are anti-social |
B.bullies should give victims help |
C.students are not equally treated |
D.bullies themselves also need help |
A.Bullying—Old Irish Girl Committed Suicide |
B.15-Year-Old Irish Girl Committed Suicide |
C.Cyberbullying-Taking Off in Schools |
D.How to Find Bullying among Teens |
What accounts for its popularity? The show features a new generation of Chinese fathers, who, as part of the country’s new middle class, have faced more problems with modern child-raising techniques such as taking an active role with their children.
Part of the appeal of the show is the chance to throw a glance at the lives of Chinese celebrities (名流) and their children. Audiences are interested in watching the failed attempts of celebrity dads making dinner, doing hair, and disciplining (管教) children -- tasks often left to mothers in a society still influenced by the saying that “men rule outside and women are inside.” “In traditional Chinese culture, fathers are strict and mothers are kind. But on the show, we see fathers who are much gentler on their kids and more involved in their upbringing, ” said Li Minyi, an associate professor. “This show raises an important question for modern Chinese society -- what is the role of fathers in today’s China?”
After each episode (集) goes to air, the Chinese internet explodes with comments on each celebrity"s parenting style.
Actor Guo Tao tries to communicate with his son, Shitou, but is seen as a more traditional Chinese father, and has been criticised online for being too harsh. Zhang Liang, a supermodel, is an audience favorite for treating his son, Tiantian, more like a friend. The show’s most famous celebrity, Lin Zhiying, a film star, was originally praised as patient with his son Kimi. But as the season progresses, fans begin to criticise him for raising a spoiled, undisciplined boy. Director Wang Yuelun is at a complete loss when it comes to care of his daughter’s hair.
Even the People"s Daily is pleased with the success of the show.
小题1:Sponsorship rights for the show’s first season were sold for about______.
A.312 million yuan | B.50 million yuan |
C.31 million yuan | D.600 million yuan |
A.gives audiences the chance to raise the star"s children themselves |
B.invites some famous film stars to take part in it |
C.lets people think about the role of fathers in modern families |
D.raises people"s concern about women"s role in the society |
A.careless | B.strict | C.clumsy | D.kind |
A.Guo Tao | B.Zhang Liang | C.Lin Zhiying | D.Wang Yuelun |
Never giving up is the key to make our dreams come true. We may fail from time to time, but we can learn from failure, correct our mistakes and try again until we achieve our goals. Our life is like a long journey which is not all roses. It sometimes has wind and rain. We believe rainbows will appear after storms.
Cooperation is also necessary. Everyone likes a person who is good at cooperating with others. Besides, in our society most problems can"t be solved by one person alone. Cooperation is becoming one of the most important ways for people living in the developing society.
At the same time, we should learn to examine our abilities because it helps us know our advantages and disadvantages as well as get a full control of ourselves. Then we may be confident enough to face challenges.
Follow the suggestions above, and our dreams are sure to come true.
小题1:How many suggestions of making dreams come true are mentioned in this passage?
A.One. | B.Two. | C.Three. | D.Four. |
A.never giving up our dreams | B.our life |
C.a long journey | D.learning from failure |
A.The Chinese Dream |
B.Cooperation is Necessary |
C.Examine Our Abilities |
D.Advice on How to Realize Our Beautiful Dreams. |
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