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.”
1.What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?
A. The improvement of cooks’ status.
B. The influence of popular female chefs.
C. The change of female’s view on cooking.
D. The development of sexual equality campaign.
2.What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?
A. Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.
B. Women spend much less time on cooking than before.
C. It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women.
D. There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.
3.How did Prof. Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?
A. It has become a thing of the past.
B. It is very different from what it used to be.
C. It shouldn’t be advocated in modern times.
D. It is beneficial to the stability of the family.
4.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. The Changes of Family Meals
B. Equality between Men and Women
C. Cooking into a New Trend for Men
D. Cooking—a Thing of the Past for Women
科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年甘肃天水一中高一上期第二学段段中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
完形填空。
This past Thanksgiving Day the boss of the company I work for decided to serve a Thanksgiving meal for the poor. I couldn't______this and decided that I wanted to ______! I could deliver foods and send out my smile card.
I arrived at my ______ around 11 and found a line of families waiting outside the doors. I wasn't sure ______ I wanted to give my card to because there were so many people there ______I knew I wanted to give it to a mother.
I served ______ table plates of turkey with all the fixings and slices of pumpkin pie for desert. Everyone was so happy and honestly seemed ______ for what my co-workers and I were doing.
At my last______there was an older lady with about eight kids. She looked tired, but ______ that her children were ______ . Smiling at her, I exchanged a few words ______ her and knew that she was a foster mom(养母) and that______she would have liked to cook at home she couldn't ______ it because of the size of her family. She then thanked me for ______ time with my family to serve hers.
She burst______ a smile and gave me a hug ______I gave my smile card to her.
At the end of the day I didn't think about how I gave up time with my ______ to do this because I got so ______ out of this special and unforgettable experience, ______made me so incredibly thankful for ______I have and I now realize it is important to give back, and not just on the holidays.
1.A.escape B.accept C.forget D.miss
2.A.ignore B.sign C.help D.take
3.A.factory B.company C.home D.farm
4.A.what B.when C.who D.where
5.A.but B.so C.and D.while
6.A.an amount of B.a number of C.the series of D.the number of
7.A.thankful B.regretful C.confused D.amused
8.A.round B.table C.turn D.desk
9.A.surprised B.upset C.happy D.curious
10.A.sitting B.singing C.laughing D.eating
11.A.with B.for C.about D.over
12.A.in case B.as though C.even if D.so that
13.A.pay B.think C.succeed D.afford
14.A.putting up B.giving up C.taking up D.making up
15.A.in B.out C.onto D.into
16.A.hardly B.slightly C.carefully D.immediately
17.A.family B.friend C.boss D.co-workers
18.A.much B.little C.many D.few
19.A.as B.which C.what D.it
20.A.something B.somebody C.everything D.Everybody
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年浙江台州书生中学高二下期中考试英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
No one knows for sure when advertising first started. It is possible that it grew out of the discovery that some people did certain kinds of work better than others did them. That led to the concept of specialization, which means that people would specialize, or focus, on doing one specific job.
Let’s take a man we’ll call Mr. Fielder, for example. He did everything connected with farming. He planted seeds, tended the fields, and harvested and sold his crops. At the same time, he did many other jobs on the farm. However, he didn’t make the bricks for his house, cut his trees into boards, make the plows (犁), or any of other hundreds of things a farm needs. Instead, he got them from people who specialized in doing each of those things.
Suppose there was another man we shall call Mr. Plowright. Using what he knew about farming and working with iron, Mr. Plowright invented a plow that made farming easier. Mr. Plowright did not really like farming himself and wanted to specialize in making really good plows. Perhaps, he thought, other farmers will trade what they grow for one of my plows.
How did Mr. Plowright let people know what he was doing? Why, he advertised, of course. First he opened a shop and then he put up a sign outside the shop to attract customers. That sign may have been no more than a plow carved into a piece of wood and a simple arrow pointing to the shop door. It was probably all the information people needed to find Mr. Plowright and his really good plows.
Many historians believe that the first outdoor signs were used about five thousand years ago. Even before most people could read, they understood such signs. Shopkeepers would carve into stone, clay, or wood symbols for the products they had for sale.
A medium, in advertising talk, is the way you communicate your message. You might say that the first medium used in advertising was signs with symbols. The second medium was audio, or sound, although that term is not used exactly in the way we use it today. Originally, just the human voice and maybe some kind of simple instrument, such as a bell, were used to get people’s attention.
A crier, in the historical sense, is not someone who weeps easily. It is someone, probably a man, with a voice loud enough to be heard over the other noises of a city. In ancient Egypt, shopkeepers might hire such a person to spread the news about their products. Often this earliest form of advertising involved a newly arrived ship loaded with goods. Perhaps the crier described the goods, explained where they came from, and praised their quality. His job was, in other words, not too different from a TV or radio commercial in today’s world.
1.What probably led to the start of advertisement?
A. The discovery of iron.
B. The specialization of labor.
C. The appearance of new jobs.
D. The development of farming techniques.
2.The writer makes up the two stories of Mr. Fielder and Mr. Plowright in order to __________.
A. explain the origin of advertising
B. predict the future of advertising
C. expose problems in advertising
D. provide suggestions for advertising
3.The last two paragraphs are mainly about __________.
A. the history of advertising
B. the benefits of advertising
C. the early forms of advertising
D. the basic design of advertising
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年江西铅山一中等四校高二下第二次月考联考英语卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Wilma was born on June 23, 1940 in St Bethlehem, Tennesse. By the time she was 6, Wilma Rudolph was given metal braces(支架) to aid her in walking. She started receiving treatment with help from her family. A few years later, she walked without any assistance into the church.
When she was in junior high, she joined the basketball team. She finally made an appeal to compete in games again and when her wish was finally permitted, she amazed everyone by leading the team to an undefeated season and the state championships. Though they lost the championship title in the end, Wilma Rudolph earned the attention of the women’s track coach, Ed Template at Tennessee State University and was invited to join the “Tigerbelles”. Her efforts paid off as she turned out to be so good that the Tigerbellers invited her to join them in the national Olympic team trails. Not only did she make it into the team, but she won a bronze medal in the 4×100m relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Four years later, Rudolph set a world 200m record(22.9 seconds) at the 1960 US Championships. At the Rome Olympics in 1960, she competed in the 100m, 200m and 4×100m relay, and equaled the world record of 11.3 seconds in the semifinals (半决赛) of the 100m. She won the final by three metres in 11.0 seconds, but it was not accepted as a world record. Wilma Rudolph’s extraordinary achivevements in Rome made her a darling of the European press who gave her the nickname “the Black Gazelle(羚羊)” and “The Black Pearl”. She also became the first woman in American history to win 3 gold medals in the Olympics and was crowned “the Fastest Woman in the World”. Wilma Rudolph’s spirit inspired people such as Jackie Joyner Kersee and Florence Griffith Joyner who became the next woman to win 3 gold medals.
1.What problem did Wilma face according to Paragraph 1?
A. Not being able to walk
B. Not being able to speak
C. Losing her sight
D. Losing her hearing
2.According to the passage, Wilma could join the “Tiger-belles” mainly because of .
A. her being Ed Template’s favourite athlete
B. her strong appeal to Ed Template
C. her outstanding performances in basketball games
D. her winning the championship title
3.We learn that Wilma broke the world record in .
A. the 4×100m relay at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics
B. the semifinals of the 100m at the Rome Olympics
C. the final of the 100m at the Rome Olympics
D. the 200m at the 1960 US Championships
4.How many people that at least won 3 Olympics gold medals in American history are mentioned in the passages?
A. Three B. One C. Four D. Five
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科目：高中英语 来源：2015-2016学年河南商丘第一高级中学高二下期中考试英语卷（解析版） 题型：完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Every fast-food employee knows that the drive-through window is the worst position. The window sticks with constant ice; the roar of engines hurts your _________; your words are lost in the howling wind.
On a _________ afternoon, everything changed.
Every once in a while, the sub-zero temperatures seal a _________ windows shut. Drivers don’t exactly enjoy having to stand outside in the cold, _________ their orders into a speaker box, when they expect to drive through on their heated leather seats. In such cases, most customers tend to show their annoyance to the employees.
This woman was _________ .
“I’ll get the next car’s _________ as well,” she said as she came up to the window to pay. She stood outside, _________ much snow on her hair. Though she was obviously freezing, her bright _________lit up her face like a fire.
“You can’t _________ their drinks,” I said, confused and tired.
“No, but I’ll buy them,” she said. “Pay it forward and all that.”
Completely puzzled, I charged her as _________ , and when the next customer arrived at the window I explained what had just happened. I watched as his _________ changed — first angry to be out in the cold, then _________ at the random act of kindness, and finally, delighted by his _________ .
“I suppose I’ll pay for the next order then,” he replied, nodding and waving at the impatient driver _________him. He _________ over the cash and received his pre-paid hot drink.
The trend continued. Customers arrived annoyed, only to leave _________ and pleased. Some were shocked to spend much more than they had expected, _________ others ended up receiving their order for less than half the price.
Five vehicles passed, then ten, then twenty. No one refused to pay. Customers stood at my window _________ a fist-full of change to buy drinks for a complete stranger. Cars drove off, honking (鸣笛) and _________ their thanks.
It only takes one customer, one person, to change the entire _________ of traffic. It only takes one moment, one smile, to warm up even the coldest of days.
1.A. ears B. hands C. feet D. back
2.A. freezing B. sunny C. warm D. usual
3.A. truck’s B. vehicle’s C. car’s D. lorry’s
4.A. offering B. throwing C. screaming D. cancelling
5.A. polite B. angry C. popular D. different
6.A. number B. coffee C. fee D. order
7.A. covering B. increasing C. gathering D. falling
8.A. eyes B. smile C. hair D. annoyance
9.A. pay B. take C. buy D. bring
10.A. instructed B. requested C. directed D. suggested
11.A. gesture B. expression C. figure D. feeling
12.A. inspired B. upset C. surprised D. disappointed
13.A. turn B. sense C. deed D. luck
14.A. beyond B. before C. beside D. behind
15.A. took B. looked C. handed D. thought
16.A. shy B. calm C. anxious D. regretful
17.A. while B. since C. as D. unless
18.A. making B. emptying C. lying D. holding
19.A. explaining B. sending C. introducing D. casting
20.A. jam B. row C. flow D. line
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根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多于选项。（请把答案填在答案卷的横线上）
Without plants, people couldn’t live. We eat plants. _____1.____. And we need plants for another reason: We need them because they are beautiful.
____2.____.Imagine no flowers with their sweet smells, their beautiful colours and their lovely shapes. Imagine, when the wind blows, we are not able to hear the leaves of the trees or watch the branches swing from side to side.
_____3.____.That is why we have parks full of trees and flowers. That is why people always like houses with room for some grass and a garden.
Do you talk to your plants? _____4.___Perter Tompkins and Christopher Bird, writers of a book called The Secret of Plants, tell of an experiment in which two seeds were plants in different places. While the plants were growing, one plant was given love and hopeful ideas. _____5.___Under the earth it had more and longer roots; above the earth, it had a thicker stem and more leaves.
A. Plants get energy from the sun.
B.After six months, the deserted plant faded away.
C. After six months, the beloved plant was bigger
D. We take in oxygen that plants make.
E. Everywhere people need beautiful plants.
F. Imagine a world with no plants.
G. Do you give them love and take good care of them?
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Section C
Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.
Walking will be banned on escalators as part of a trail designed to reduce congestion(拥堵) at some of the country’s busiest stations.
In the first move of its kind, all travelers will be forced to stand on both sides of escalators on the London Underground as part of a plan to increase capacity(容量) at the height of the rush hour.
A six-month trial will be introduced at Holborn station from mid-April, eliminating the rule of standing on the right and walking on the left. The move, imitating a similar structure in Far eastern cities such as Hong Kong, is designed to increase the number of people using long escalators at the busiest times . it could be expanded across the Tube network in coming years.
According to London Underground, only 40 percent of travelers walk the full length of long escalators, leaving the majority at the bottom as they wait to get on to the “standing “side.
A three-week trial at Holborn last year found that the number of people using escalators at any time of could be raised by almost a third. Peter McNaught, operations director at London Underground, said: “It may not seem right that you can go quicker by standing still, but our experiments at Holborn have proved that it can be true. This new six-month trial will help us find out if we can influence customers to stand on both sides in the long term.”
Holborn has one of the longest sets of escalators on the Underground network at 23.4 high. Tube bosses claim that capacity was limited because so few people wanted to walk up—meaning only one side was used at all times. Research has shown that it is more effective use of escalators over 18.5 to ban walking.
The previous trial found that escalators at the station normally carried 2,500 people between 8:30am and 9:30am on a typical day, rising to 3,250 during the researching period.
In the new trial, which will be launched from April 18, one of three “up” escalators will be standing only, with a second banning walking at peak times. A third will remain a mix of walking and standing.
(Note: Answering the questions the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TEN WORDS.)
1.What is the existing problem with standing on the right and walking on the left?
2.What did last year’s three-week trial at Holborn station prove?
3.The research suggests that walking should be forbidden on escalators that are at least _________ in height.
4.In the new trail, in addition to one escalator banning walking in rush hours, the other “up” escalators will be used for_________________.
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科目：高中英语 来源：2016年全国普通高等学校招生统一考试英语（江苏卷参考版） 题型：单项填空
Parents should actively urge their children to______the opportunity to join sports teams.
A. gain admission to B. keep track of
C. take advantage of D. give rise to
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书面表达
假设你是晨光中学的学生会主席李津。一批来自英国的高中生与你校学生开展了为期两周的交流活动。现在，他们即将回国，你将在欢送会上致辞。请根据以下提示写一篇发言稿。
（1） 回顾双方的交流活动（如学习、生活、体育、文艺等方面）；
（2） 谈谈收获或感情；
（3） 表达祝愿语期望。
注意：
（1） 词数不少于100；
（2） 可适当加入细节，是内容充实、行文连贯；
（3） 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。
Dear friends,
How time flies!
Thank you.
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