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What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answer lies in the way Americans live tod
What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answer lies in the way Americans live tod
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2017-11-28
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问题
What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answer lies in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range.
Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother.
Today about half of the country’s married women are employed outside the home. But, unless family members
pitch in with
food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that chore.
Instead, many have become, in a sense, prisoners of the completely cooked convenience meals. It is easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long, hard day.
Also, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, have been alone rather than as part of a family unit and don’t want to bother cooking for one.
Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it does not require any dressing up, it offers a "fun" break in the daily routine, and the expense of money seems small. It can be eaten in the car — sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out — or on the run. Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of the handy disposable wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it is finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manner.
It can be inferred that children______.
选项
A、want to have more freedom at table
B、never wash dishes after meal
C、like using knives and forks while eating
D、take eating time as a fun break
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。根据题干中的children可将本题出处定位于最后一段最后一句。本句指出,孩子们尤其喜欢快餐,因为它是一种快餐食物,他们不必费劲使用刀叉,也不必忍受来自大人对餐桌礼仪的令人讨厌的要求。由此可推断,孩子们在吃饭时想要更多的自由,故答案为[A]项。
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