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These days, nobody needs to cook. Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved ready-meals. Cooking is an occasi
These days, nobody needs to cook. Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved ready-meals. Cooking is an occasi
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2021-01-08
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These days, nobody needs to cook. Families graze on high-cholesterol take-aways and microwaved ready-meals. Cooking is an occasional hobby and a vehicle for celebrity chefs. Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21st-century home.
The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status. In America the kitchen market is now worth $ 170 billion, five times the country’s film industry. In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one million kitchens worldwide. The average budget for a " major" kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54,000: even a "minor" improvement cost on average $ 18,000.
Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson & Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £ 145,000 -155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical work. Its big selling point is that nobody else will have it:" You won’t see this kitchen anywhere else in the world. "
The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social change. Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places, generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from living space as possible. That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants, and the aspiring middle classes wanted nothing to do with them.
But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in, housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated classes. One of the pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In American Woman’s Home, published in 1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific approach to household management, designed to enhance the efficiency of a woman’ work and promote order.
Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to another American, Christine Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the housewife. Her 1919 work, Household Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home, was based on detailed observation of a housewife’s daily routine. She borrowed the principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied it to domestic tasks on the kitchen floor.
Frederick’s central idea, that "stove, sink and kitchen table must be placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely", inspired the first fully fitted kitchen, designed in the 1920s by Margarete Schiitter-Lihotsky. It was a modernist triumph, and many elements remain central features of today’s kitchen.
Why does the Georgian-style kitchen sell at a very high price?
选项
A、It is believed to have tremendous artistic value.
B、No duplicate is to be found in any other place.
C、It is manufactured by a famous British company.
D、No other manufacturer can produce anything like it.
答案
B
解析
推理判断题。由文章第三段第一句可知,英国定制厨具制造商罗宾逊&康尼什公司推出了一套乔治时代风格的厨房,费用在145 000到155 000英镑之间,还不包括修建、安装水管和铺设电线的费用,说明这间乔治时代风格的厨房价格昂贵;第三段第二句继续指出,其一大卖点是独家拥有:“你在世界上其他任何地方都不会再看到这种厨房”,由此推出该厨房价格高的原因是在任何地方都找不到复制品,故答案为B)。
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