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In the United States, the biggest change in spending has been in the amount spent on food, which has decreased from 46% of the t
In the United States, the biggest change in spending has been in the amount spent on food, which has decreased from 46% of the t
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2009-10-15
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In the United States, the biggest change in spending has been in the amount spent on food, which has decreased from 46% of the total family budget in 1901 to 19% of present day totals. This is due to the fact that people are now able to buy more and better foods at lower prices. As a result of the growth in fast food restaurants (for example, McDonald’s or KFC), more people are also eating out. Thus about 30% of today’s food budget goes on meals eaten outside the home while a hundred years ago it was only 3%.
At the beginning of the 20th century, few people owned their homes (only around 19% of working families) or cars (at about $ 1,000 per ear this was well above the average family income of $ 650 per year), as most people were unable to borrow money. But there was a rapid rise in both home and car ownership during the mid-1900s.
Free time increased considerably following the shortening of the working week, i.e. from six days to five, and from 10 hours to eight hours a day. In fact, the working clay couldn’t be too long, otherwise people wouldn’t have the time to spend their money. The amount of a family’s budget spent on outside entertainment, such as parties, films and concerts has increased from just under 6% in Ford’s day to about 9% today. On the other hand, we spend only a quarter of what our great-grand-parents paid for reading materials.
It is difficult to see how our spending patterns may change in the future. We already know that our population is aging and this will have an effect on the amount of money we spend on medicalcare.
选项
A、Increase in family income.
B、Changes in family planning.
C、Changing patterns in spending.
D、Decrease in food demand.
答案
C
解析
题干意为“这篇文章谈论的主旨是什么?”本文开始谈论美国人在饮食方面资金投入的变化,然后扩展到房子和汽车等消费结构上面的变化,所以主要谈论的是消费结构的变化。所以本题的正确答案为C。
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