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 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.”
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.
2.What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?
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.
3.How did Prof. Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?
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.
4.Which is the best title for the passage?
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
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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 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.”
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.
2.What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?
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.
3.How did Prof. Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?
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.
4.Which is the best title for the passage?
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
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If a shop has chairs _____ women can park their men, they will spend more time in the shop.
A.that B.which C.when D.where
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If a shop has chairs _______ women can park their men, women will spend more time in the shop.
A.that B.which C.when D.where
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Friends come to visit us in the evening, they spend their time telling us they are in a hurry and looking at their watches.It isn’t that our friends are all very busy, it is just that When we haven’t got a television.People think that we are very strange.“But what do you do in the evening?”,they are always asking.The answer is very simple.Both my wife and I have hobbies.We certainly don’t spend our evenings staring at the walls.My wife enjoys cooking and painting and often attends evening classes in foreign languages.This is particularly useful as we often go abroad for our holidays.I collect stamps and I’m always busy with my collection.Both of us enjoy listening to the music and playing chess together.
Sometimes there are power cuts and we have no electricity in the house.This does not worry us, we just light candles and carry on with what we were doing before.Our friends, however, are lost---no television!---So they don’t know what to do.On such evenings our house is very full ---they all come to us.They all have a good time.Instead of sitting in silence in front of the television, everybody talks and plays games.
1.The couple have not got a television, because .
A. they are not rich enough
B. they are strange people
C. they enjoy spending evenings in their own ways
D. they don’t know what to do when there are power cuts
2.Both of the couple are interested in .
A. learning languages
B. traveling
C. staying home alone
D. watching people play games
3.At night when there is no electricity, the couple .
A. have to stare at the walls
B. can do nothing but sit in silence
C. will have many visitors
D. have to go out for candles
4.The writer tries to tell us that ____.
A. the television is useful
B. electricity is important
C. life is enjoyable without television
D. life is impossible without a television
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Penguins are flightless birds that spend half their time on land and half in the water.
1. They have dark and white feathers, and their wings have evolved into flippers (脚蹼). Most penguins feed on fish, squid and other forms of sea life caught while swimming.
2. They are mostly found in groups that include thousands of penguins. Penguins each have their own unique mating call, and they use that to locate their mate and chicks in such a large group.
Although almost all penguin species are native to the Southern Hemisphere, they are not found only in cold Antarctica.3. Several species are even found in the temperate zone, and one species, the Galátpagos penguin, lives near the equator (赤道).
Unfortunately, many penguin species worldwide are facing threats. The biggest is climate change and global warming. As the earth warms up, the sheets of ice have melted, and the algae (藻类)that grow under the ice decrease. The algae are eaten by tiny creatures called zooplankton. When there is a drop in zooplankton, it affects the fish that depend on it.4.
Another major threat is from oil spills. If coated with oil, penguins cannot float or swim in water. Also, if oil is swallowed, penguins will die from poison.5.
A.These birds are very social.
B.In fact, only a few of them live so far south.
C.Penguins are highly adapted for life in the water.
D.The biggest threat for penguins comes from humans.
E.They have a tendency to live in a community together.
F.As a result, penguins have less fish to eat and thus starve.
G.Others include overfishing, illegal egg harvesting, and natural enemies.
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Once upon a time, two young men were spending some time in the country. One day, while taking a walk together, they crossed a large field. 1. (sudden) a bull (公牛) appeared and began to chase (追逐) them. They were very 2. (frighten) and began to run, but the bull kept 3. (run) after them. Finally, one of the men climbed up a tree and 4. other one jumped into a hole. Soon, however, the man 5. had jumped into the hole came out again.
Immediately the bull chased him back into the hole again. This 6. (go) on for five or six times. Finally, the man in the tree came up 7. an idea and shouted to his friend, “Stay in the hole for a while or this bull 8. (keep) us here all day!” 9.he jumped back into the hole again, he said,“It's easy for you to say, 10. there is a bear in this hole.”
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The reason why women love to spend hours in shops while men prefer to be in and out of the high street in minutes can trace back(追溯) to their hunter-gathering past, find scientists.
While women spent their days gathering food, often with children, men were hunters who made plans about how to catch and kill their prey (猎物). These two ways of getting food in the past show how we shop in modern times, the study believes.
Women would spend hours trying to find the right things, because they had in the past spent ages trying to find the best quality and health-giving food. Men, on the other hand, decided in advance what animal they wanted to kill and then went looking for it. Once it was found and killed, they returned home.
Daniel Kruger, professor of the University of Michigan, said the study could be the answer to why there are a lot of collisions when couples go shopping together. He said it could also help couples to avoid fights in the shops if they understood the reasons why each sex had different ways of deciding on the perfect present.
“In modern times, women are much more likely than men to know when a specific type of item will go on sale. Women also spend much more time choosing the perfect color and texture.”
Professor Kruger said his study was important because if men and women understood each other’s shopping habits they could avoid arguments while shopping.
1.What has decided the different shopping habits of men and women?
A. Different ways of keeping food in the past.
B. Different ways of eating in the past.
C. Different ways of buying food in the past.
D. Different ways of gathering food in the past.
2.In comparison(比较) with men, women were less likely to_____.
A. catch the right animal and kill it.
B. spend much time on shopping.
C. choose the right color and texture.
D. know when a specific item was on sale.
3.What does the underlined word mean in the fourth paragraph?
A. Requests B. Arguments.
C. Concerns. D. Differences.
4.According to Kruger, his study can help to _____.
A. develop good shopping habits.
B. avoid arguments in shopping between men and women.
C. give people tips on choosing good gifts.
D. make sure people buy safe food for children.
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Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV, according to results of a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) published Thursday.
The survey, of citizens of five Chinese cities, found that 79 percent of interviewees use the internet for information, and 55.1 percent to read news on the internet. About 63 percent of the interviewees use e-mail. The average times spent surfing the net and watching TV were 2.73 hours and 1.29hours, respectively.
Only 10.4 percent reported use the internet primarily to send and receive email; 65.9 percent read online news; 62.2 quite often play games on-line. More and more people have taken an interest in the entertainment opportunities online. Up to 56.5 percent of interviewees quite often download music, and 53.5 percent get entertainment messages from the internet.
Yet the survey found that television is still the dominant mass medium. Seventy-nine percent of interviewees choose to watch TV to get information, and another 75 percent take newspapers as important as TV.
Five major web sites in the Chinese language, namely Sina, Sohu, Netease, Baidu and Yahoo are still ranked top ones by web users, and those that voted for Sina as the best among them were 30.9 percent.
Authorized statistics showed that web users in China have already exceeded 100 million, second to that of the United States.
1.Which of the following is not true?
A.Chinese people are now spending more time surfing the net than watching TV.
B.There are more Chinese people using the internet for information compared with those reading news on the internet.
C.There are more people using e-mail compared with those searching information on the internet.
D.There are more people using e-mail compared with those reading news on the internet.
2.The survey shows that ________.
A.Only 10.4% reported use the internet to send and receive email.
B.Less than half of the people use the internet for enter fain-ment.
C.All of the people reported like to play games on-line.
D.Most of the people reported read online news.
3.Which will you choose if you want to chat with your friends on the internet?
A.TV B.Sina C.telephone D.QQ
4.The underlined word “exceeded” means ________.
A.increased to B.increased by C.risen D.decreased
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—Sorry, Bill, I can't go straight on and spend more time with you in Huangshan. ——_______
A. It was just like you. B. Isn't it as bad as that?
C. You're really a wet blanket. D. Accidents will happen.
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—Bill, if it doesn’t rain, we can go straight on and spend more time in Vienna.
—________! I just want to hear Mozart.
A.Well done! B.No problem!
C.That’s great! D.That’s it!
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