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【題目】From my experience, there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time, _【1】Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. Here are three tips for great cooking on a tight schedule:

1. Think ahead. The moments when I think cooking is a pain are when I’m already hungry and there is nothing ready to eat. So think ahead of the coming week. When will you have time to cook? Do you have the right materials ready?_【2】

2. Make your time worth it. When you do find time to cook a meal, make the most of it and save yourself time later on. Are you making one loaf of bread? 【3】It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something. So save yourself the effort for a future meal.

3. 【4】This may surprise you, but one of the best tools for making cooking worth your time is experimentation（實驗）. It gives you the chance to hit upon new ideas and recipes (食譜) that can work well with your appetite (食欲) and schedule. The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.

Hopefully that gives you a good start. 【5】And don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!

A. Understand your food better.

B. Make three or four instead.

C. Cooking is a burden for many people.

D. A little time planning ahead can save a lot of work later on.

E. Ability is easily improved.

F. Let cooking and living simply be a joy rather than a burden (負(fù)擔(dān)).

G. Try new things.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】E

【2】D

【3】B

【4】G

【5】F

【解析】

試題解析：隨著生活節(jié)奏的加快，人們尤其是年輕人花在廚房的時間越來越少了，作者總結(jié)了三點要素：能力、金錢和時間。本文作者就時間這一點給出了幾點建議：1、提前想好吃什么；2、讓時間有所值；3、嘗試新鮮事物。做到了這些才能讓下廚變成一件享受的事，給飲食生活帶來更好的改變。

【1】E. 考查推理判斷題。根據(jù)前文“there are three main reasons why people don’t cook more often: ability, money and time”這里有三個主要因素來闡述人們?yōu)槭裁床唤?jīng)常做飯，以及后文“Money is a topic I’ll save for another day. So today I want to give you some wisdom about how to make the most of the time you spend in the kitchen. ”對于金錢這個主題下次再議，所以今天我想給你們一些建議，關(guān)于如何最大利用你花在廚房的時間�？梢酝茰y，對于開篇提到的三大要素，作者想要討論的是時間，所以首先排除能力和金錢，故選E。

【2】D. 考查主旨大意題。根據(jù)這一小段的主題“Think ahead.”可知，作者給出的第一點建議是提前想好，選項中只有D選項：提前花時間做一點計劃能夠節(jié)省之后的很多工作時間，符合此意，故選D。

【3】B. 考查細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)前文“Are you making one loaf of bread?”你只做一片面包嗎？以及后文“It takes around the same amount of time to make more of something.”做更多數(shù)量的東西往往花費的時間和做一個同樣多。故B選項符合題意：取而代之，做三個或四個吧。故選B。

【4】G. 考查主旨大意題。此空要填寫適當(dāng)?shù)男��?biāo)題，根據(jù)本段落的意思，作者希望下廚者能夠更多地進(jìn)行實踐，最后一句“The more you learn and the more you try, the more ability you have to take control of your food and your schedule.”你學(xué)的越多，嘗試的越多，你就能擁有更多掌控你食物和食譜的能力。所以G選項符合題意：嘗試新鮮事物。故選G。

【5】F. 考查細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)后文“And don’t let a busy schedule discourage you from making some great changes in the way you eat and live!”不要讓忙碌的計劃使你泄氣，阻礙你在飲食生活上做出更好的改變�？梢酝茰y，前文讓我們享受烹飪，故F選項符合題意：讓下廚和生活成為一種簡單的享受而不是負(fù)擔(dān)。故選F。