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Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity chefs(名人厨师)like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, accor

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问题     Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity chefs(名人厨师)like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.
    The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cookery a more manly image, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality, to mean men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.
    According to 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 gender equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come."
    Women, who a generation ago spent a fraction under two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes — a dramatic fall, but they still spend far more time at the stove than men. Some critics say men have been inspired to pick up a spatula(锅铲)by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.
    The report, commissioned by frozen food company Birds Eye, also makes clear that the family meal is limping(缓慢前进)on in far better health than some have suggested, thanks in part to a resurgence(复兴)in cooking by some consumers. Two-thirds of adults claim 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.
    Anne Murphy, general manager at Birds Eye, said: "The evening meal is still clearly central to family life and with some saying family time is on the increase and the appearance of a more frugal(节俭的)consumer, we think the return to tradition will continue as a trend."
    However, 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 completely different members of the family.
    "The family meal has changed very substantially, 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."
What does the author say about the time men and women spend on cooking?
选项 A、Women spend much less time on cooking now compared with some 25 years ago.
B、That men spend more time cooking than women has become a social trend.
C、There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.
D、It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women.
答案A
解析 第5段首句讲到，二、三十年前，女性每天花在做饭上的时间近两小时，而如今仅为1小时7分钟——减少了很多，A)中much less time对应文中a dramatic fall，some 25 yearsago是对a generation ago的同义转述，故答案为A)紧接着but后说(女性)还是比男性下厨的时间长很多，由此可知，男性下厨时间长于女性并非已成为一种社会趋势，B)的现在完成时的表述错误，故排除。如第2段所表述，现在男性下厨时间是1961年的两倍还多，很明显时间是在增多，C)意思与此相反。第4段引言末句前半句指出性别平等问题已历时40年，后半句紧承上句是说达到真正的男女平等可能还需40年，而非男性下厨时间超过女性还需40年，故排除D)。
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