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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.”
【语篇导读】本文是一篇说明文。作者探究男人花在烹饪上的时间变长而女人相反花的时间变短，以及这些变化的原因。
32. What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?
33. What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?
34. How did Prof. Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?
35. Which is the best title for the passage?
确定题目关键是探究其中一个原因。结合文章中的相关信息，可找到答案。句意：A.厨师地位的提高。B受欢迎的女厨师的影响。C女性烹饪观念的转变。D性别平等运动的发展。可知，只有D是其中一个原因，所以选D.
事实细节题，直接信息理解题。根据第二段：“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.花更多时间在烹饪的名人图片效应的作用，结合了更普遍的推动性男女平等，现在男人们比他们在1961年时花两倍多的时间来准备饭菜。”，可知，两个原因中只有D符合，故选D
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确定题目关键是作者是如何评价男女花在烹饪上的时间的？结合文章中的相关信息，可找到答案。句意：A.现在男人比女人花更多的时间做饭。B女人做饭的时间比以前少多了。C要花40年时间，男人在炉子上花的时间比女人多。D与1961相比，人们做饭的时间急剧减少。可知，ACD都是错误选项，与原文不符，所以选B.
事实细节题，直接信息理解题。根据第五段：“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.，上一代女人花了近两个小时做饭，现在花一个小时零七分钟，但他们仍然比男人在厨房花了更多的时间。”，可知，两个原因中只有B符合，故选B
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确定题目关键是Prof. Gershuny如何看待家庭聚餐的？ 结合文章中的相关信息，可找到答案。句意：A它已成为过去的事情。B它是非常不同于它曾经是。C它不应该提倡在现代。D.有利于家庭的稳定。可知，ACD都是错误选项，与原文不符，所以选B.
事实细节题，直接信息理解题。根据最后一段第二句：“Prof. Gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a tableGershuny教授指出，家庭餐是现在很少有家庭成员围在桌子旁一起吃了”，可知，现在家庭聚餐与过去不同了，故选B
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文章的主题是男人花在厨房里的时间越来越多。句意：A 家庭用餐的变化B男女平等C.烹饪成为男人的新趋势D对于妇女而言，烹饪是过去的事了，只有C符合，故选C.
归纳概括题。根据第一段：“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.据来自牛津大学的报告，受名人厨师如戈登拉姆齐和Jamie Olive的鼓励，男人花在厨房里的时间越来越多。”可知男人花在厨房里的时间越来越多是一种新趋势，包括名人。故选C。
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