Question

6．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．"
8．What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before？A
A．The development of sexual equality campaign．
B．The influence of popular female chefs．
C．The change of female's view on cooking．
D．The improvement of cooks'status．
9．What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking？C
A．Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays．
B．It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women．
C．Women spend much less time on cooking than before．
D．There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961．
10．How did Prof．Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage？C
A．It has become a thing of the past．
B．It shouldn't be advocated in modern times．
C．It is very different from what it used to be．
D．It is beneficial to the stability of the family．
11．Which is the best title for the passage？D
A．The Changes of Family Meals．
B．Equality between Men and Women．
C．Cooking-a Thing of the Past for Women．
D．Cooking into a New Trend for Men．

Answer 1

分析 本文為科教類閱讀，因受名廚的激勵，再加上性別平等問題變得普遍，如今男性下廚的時間越來越多．

解答 8．A．細節(jié)理解題：從文章第二段的句子"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，越來越多男性下廚房的一個原因是性別平等問題變得越來越普遍，選A．
9．C．細節(jié)理解題：從文章第五段的句子"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，作者認為女子花在做飯上的時間比過去少了，選C．
10．C．細節(jié)理解題：從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 認為家庭的聚餐和過去不一樣了，選C．
11．D．主旨大意題：從全篇文章和第一段的句子"Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity （名人） chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver"可知，這篇文章講的是男性下廚成新潮流，選D．

點評 本文是一個科教類閱讀理解，題目涉及多道細節(jié)理解題，做題時結合原文和題目有針對性的找出相關語句進行仔細分析，結合選項選出正確答案．推理判斷題也是要在抓住關鍵句子的基礎上合理的分析才能得出正確答案，切忌胡亂猜測，一定要做到有理有據(jù)．