For many Americans, 2013 ended with an unusually bitter cold spell. Late November and December (26)_____ early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two (27)_____, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones. But the U.S. was the exception: November was the warmest ever (28)_____, and current data indicates that 2013 is likely to have been the fourth hottest year on record.
Enjoy the snow now, because (29)_____ are good that 2014 will be even hotter, perhaps the hottest year since records have been kept. That’s because, scientists are predicting, 2014 will be an El Niños Year.
El Niños, Spanish for “the child”, (30)_____ when surface ocean waters in the southern Pacific become abnormally warm. So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet’s surface, that the (31)_____ energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world. El Niños are (32)_____ with abnormally dry conditions in Southeast Asia and Australia. They can lead to extreme rain in parts of North and South America, even as southern Africa (33)_____ dry weather. Marine life may be affected too: EI Niños can (34)_____ the rising of the cold, nutrient-rich (营养丰富的) water that supports large fish (35)_____, and the unusually warm ocean temperatures can destroy coral (珊瑚).
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
30. occurs动词辨析题。Spanish for the child是EI Nino的同位语，句子成分中缺少谓语动词，空格后的when引导了时间状语从句。主语是第三人称单数，相应动词应该选择第三人称单数形式。备选项experiences，occurs。根据句意，当什么什么的时候，就会发生，选择occurs。
33. experiences动词辨析题。空格位于两组名词之间，因此句子成分缺少动词。主语是第三人称单数，动词也应为相应格式。备选项experiences，occurs。从句意角度分析，厄尔尼诺现象会导致降雨量极多，甚至连常年遭遇干旱天气的南非也不能幸免。选择experiences。Tips：当occurs表示发生什么时，一般都是发生的事情做主语。例如，Dry weather occurs in South Africa。
【A】Why do so many Americans eat tons of processed food, the stuff that is correctly called junk (垃圾) and should really carry warning labels?
【B】It’s not because fresh ingredients are hard to come by. Supermarkets offer more variety than ever, and there are over four times as many farmers’ markets in the U. S. as there were 20 years ago. Nor is it for lack of available information. There are plenty of recipes (食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television. If anything, the information is overwhelming.
【C】And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories (卡路里) outside the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our dally calories from snacks. So we’re eating out or taking in, and we don't sit down—or we do, but we hurry.
【D】Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans? Why would we want to outsource (外包) this basic task, especially when outsourcing it is so harmful?
【E】When I talk about cooking, I’m not talking about creating elaborate dinner parties or three-day science projects. I’m talking about simple, easy, everyday meals. My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectations, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
【F】Perhaps a return to real cooking needn’t be far off. A recent Harris poll revealed that 79% of Americans say they enjoy cooking and 30% “love it”; 14% admit to not enjoying kitchen work and just 7% won’t go near the stove at all. But this doesn’t necessarily translate to real cooking, and the result of this survey shouldn’t surprise anyone: 52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
【G】Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Morn cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal. Most people couldn’t afford to do otherwise.
【H】Although frozen dinners were invented in the 40s, their popularity didn’t boom until televisions became popular a decade or so later. Since then, packaged, pre-prepared meals have been what’s for dinner. The microwave and fast-food chains were the biggest catalysts (催化剂), but the big food companies—which want to sell anything except the raw ingredients that go into cooking—made the home cook an endangered species.
【I】Still, I find it strange that only a third of young people report preparing meals at home regularly. Isn’t this the same crowd that rails against processed junk and champions craft cooking? And isn’t this the generation who say they’re concerned about their health and the well—being of the planet? If these are truly the values of many young people, then their behavior doesn’t match their beliefs.
【J】There have been half-hearted but well-publicized efforts by some food companies to reduce calories in their processed foods, but the Standard American Diet is still the polar opposite of the healthy, mostly plant—based diet that just about every expert says we should be eating. Considering that the government’s standards are not nearly ambitious enough, the picture is clear: by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
【K】To help quantify (量化) the costs of a poor diet, I recently tried to estimate this impact in terms of a most famous food, the burger (汉堡包). I concluded that the profit from burgers is more than offset (抵消) by the damage they cause in health problems and environmental harm.
【L】Cooking real food is the best defense—not to mention that any meal you’re likely to eat at home contains about 200 fewer calories than one you would eat in a restaurant.
【M】To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple: Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local, organic ingredients; all you need is real food. I’m not saying local food isn’t better; it is. But there is plenty of decent food in the grocery stores.
【N】The other sections you should get to know are the frozen foods and the canned goods. Frozen produce is still produce; canned tomatoes are still tomatoes. Just make sure you’re getting real food without tons of added salt or sugar. Ask yourself, would Grandma consider this food? Does it look like something that might occur in nature? It’s pretty much common sense: you want to buy food, not unidentifiable food like objects.
【O】You don’t have to hit the grocery store daily, nor do you need an abundance of skill. Since fewer than haft of Americans say they cook at an intermediate level and only 20% describe their cooking skills as advanced, the crisis is one of confidence. And the only remedy for that is practice. There’s nothing mysterious about cooking the evening meal. You just have to do a little thinking ahead and redefine what qualifies as dinner. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills. Someday you won’t even need recipes. My advice is that you not pay attention to the number of steps and ingredients, because they can be deceiving.
【P】Time, I realize, is the biggest obstacle to cooking for most people. You must adjust your priorities to find time to cook. For instance, you can move a TV to the kitchen and watch your favorite shows while you’re standing at the sink. No one is asking you to give up activities you like, but if you’re watching food shows on TV, try cooking instead.
11、36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
12、37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
13、38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
14、39. Cooking skills can be improved with practice.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
15、40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
16、41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
17、42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
18、43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
19、44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
20、45. The popularity of TV led to the popularity of frozen food.
A A
B B
C C
D D
E E
F F
G G
H H
I I
J J
K K
L L
M M
N N
O O
P P
答案解析：36. Cooking benefits people in many ways and enables them to connect with one another.
D）Shouldn’t preparing—and consuming—food be a source of comfort, pride, health, well-being, relaxation, sociability? Something that connects us to other humans?
解析：题目中的意思是，烹饪对人们来说益处多多，并且可以促进人与人之间的交流。原文中D段用反问句来强调烹饪的重要性，提到准备食材和大家一起享用食物的过程可以让人们觉得舒服，健康，放松，并且也是一个社交的过程，可以让我们与其他人沟通。comfort，pride，health，well-being，relaxation，sociability都是cooking的好处，是benefit的同义转换，connect us to other humans是connect one with another的同义转换。
37. Abundant information about cooking is available either online or on TV.
B）There are plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes available to anyone who has a computer, smartphone or television.
解析：题目的意思是无论在电视上还是网上都可以看到丰富的关于烹饪的信息。回归原文中，作者告诉大家获得烹饪信息的渠道很多，种类也很多，可以通过电脑手机电视看到相关的食谱，以及视频和相关教学课程。这道题其实是一个细节考查题，考查大家对文章信息的归纳汇总能力。abundant information对应于文章中的plenty of recipes(食谱), how-to videos and cooking classes，而online or TV是对原文的重现。
38. Young people do less cooking at home than the elderly these days.
F）52% of those 65 or older cook at home five or more times per week; only a third of young people do.
O) And the only remedy for that is practice. Like any skill, cooking gets easier as you do it more; every time you cook, you advance your level of skills.
解析：题目的意思是多练习可以提升烹饪技巧。回归原文中O段，出现最多的词是skill，可以看出这段主要介绍了烹饪技巧，锁定文章中针对厨艺不好的补救办法就是practice，单词重现。后面一句中也出现了，do more，gets easier和advance your level skill。advance与improve是同义替换。
40. In the mid-20th century, most families ate dinner at home instead of eating out.
G）Back in the 1950s most of us grew up in households where Mom cooked virtually every night. The intention to put a home-cooked meal on the table was pretty much universal.
解析：题目中说到，20世纪中叶，大部分家庭都是在家吃饭而不是出去吃。很明显，这里出现了表示时间的词，mid-20th century，另一种表现方式就是1950s，可以快速定位到G段，再看G段的信息，提到20世纪50年代，我们大多数人成长的家庭环境中，妈妈几乎每天晚上都会做饭，人们普遍都愿意将家常菜摆上餐桌。every night与home-cooked都可以与题目中的dinner和ate at home同义替换。
41. Even those short of time or money should be encouraged to cook for themselves and their family.
E）My mission is to encourage green hands and those lacking time or money to feed themselves. That means we need modest, realistic expectation, and we need to teach people to cook food that’s good enough to share with family and friends.
解析：题目中提到鼓励那些缺少时间和金钱的人为自己和家人做饭。而文章中出现了多处原词重现，encourage，family and friends，feed themselves对应于cook for themselves，short of money or time对应于lacking time or money。这道题中，同义替换和原词重现均出现了。
42. Eating food not cooked by ourselves can cause serious consequences.
J）...by not cooking at home, we’re not eating the right things, and the consequences are hard to overstate.
解析：题目中提及吃了不是自己做的东西可能会引起严重的后果。简简单单的一句话，可以通过到consequences定位到J段，serious对应于文章中的hard to overstate，难以描述。
43. To eat well and still save money, people should buy fresh food and cook it themselves.
M）To those Americans for whom money is a concern, my advice is simple; Buy what you can afford, and cook it yourself. The common prescription is to primarily shop the grocery store, since that’s where fresh produce, meat and seafood, and dairy are. And to save money and still eat well you don’t need local organic ingredients;
解析：题目的意思是为了吃的健康而且省钱，人们应该买新鲜的食材并且自己做。回归原文中，段落开头就提到了对于经济上不怎么宽裕的美国人来说，作者提出了很简单的建议，买一些负担得起的食材，然后自己做饭。紧接着，作者又推荐了可以出售新鲜食材的食品杂货店，同时提议省钱而且健康饮食的方法，不一定非要吃有机食材，只要是真正的食物就可以了。save money and eat well是原词重现，那么后面的buy fresh food and cook it themselves 其实是对前面两句话的总结。
44. We get a fairly large portion of calories from fast food and snacks.
C）And yet we aren’t cooking. If you eat three meals a day and behave like most Americans, you probably get at least a third of your daily calories(卡路里) outsides the home. Nearly two-thirds of us grab fast food once a week, and we get almost 25% of our daily calories from snacks.
The wallet is heading for extinction. As a day-to-day essential, it will die off with the generation who read print newspapers. The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a comer shop. At the shops where you spend any real money, that money is increasingly abstracted. And this is more and more true, the higher up the scale you go. At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.
Which is nothing more or less than excellent service, if you have the money. But across society, the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. But earning money isn’t quick or easy for most of us. Isn’t it a bit weird that spending it should happen in haft a blink (眨眼) of an eye? Doesn’t a wallet—that time-honored Friday-night feeling of pleasing, promising fatness—represent something that matters?
But I’ll leave the economics to the experts. What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment. Everything about the look and feel of a wallet—the way the fastenings and materials wear and tear and loosen with age, the plastic and paper and gold and silver, and handwritten phone numbers and printed cinema tickets—is the very opposite of what our world is becoming. The opposite of a wallet is a smart phone or an iPad. The rounded edges, cool glass, smooth and unknowable as a pebble (鹅卵石). Instead of digging through pieces of paper and peering into corners, we move our fingers left and right. No more counting out coins. Show your wallet, if you still have one. It may not be here much longer.
21、46. What is happening to the wallet?
A It is disappearing.
B It is being fattened.
C It is becoming costly.
D It is changing in style.
答案解析：
46. A) It is disappearing.
解析：细节题，题目中问钱包怎么了，文章的第一句话就是The wallet is heading for extinction.钱包正在走向灭绝，因此很容易选出A。
22、47. How are business transactions done in big modern stores?
A Individually.
B Electronically.
C In the abstract.
D Via a cash register.
答案解析：
47. B) Electronically.
解析：细节题，由big modern stores定位到第一段的At the most cutting-edge retail stores—Victoria Beckham on Dover Street, for instance—you don’t go and stand at any kind of cash register when you decide to pay. The staff are equipped with iPads to take your payment while you relax on a sofa.以位于Dover Street上的前卫商店Victoria Beckham为例，当你想要付款时，并不用站在任何结账终端前付款，员工会在你坐在沙发上休息时拿着ipad过来完成你的付款。这充分说明了当今交易已经趋向电子化。
23、48. What makes the author feel uncomfortable nowadays?
A Saving money is becoming a thing of the past.
B The pleasing Friday-night feeling is fading.
C Earning money is getting more difficult.
D Spending money is so fast and easy.
答案解析：
48.D) Spending money is so fast and easy.
解析：细节题，uncomfortable定位至第二段the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned. But earning money isn’t quick or easy for most of us. Isn’t it a bit weird that spending it should happen in half a blink (眨眼) of an eye?这种抽象的现金概念让作者不舒服。作者说自己可能过时了。但是赚钱对于大家来说并不是快捷简单的，可是一眨眼的功夫钱就花出去了岂不是很奇怪。鲜明的对比表明作者觉得钱花的太快了，相比挣钱来说，花钱太容易了。
24、49. Why does the author choose to write about what’s happening to the wallet?
A It represents a change in the modern world.
B It has something to do with everybody’s life.
C It marks the end of a time-honored tradition.
D It is the concern of contemporary economists.
答案解析：
49.A ) It represents a change in the modern world.
解析：细节题，Why表示原因的询问，作者为什么要写现下钱包发生的变化，由此问题可以定位到第三段What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.使我困扰的是钱包的消失代表的当今社会环境的变化。因此A符合文意。
25、50. What can we infer from the passage about the author?
A He is resistant to social changes.
B He is against technological progress.
C He feels reluctant to part with the traditional wallet.
D He feels insecure in the ever-changing modern world.
答案解析：
50. D) He fells insecure in the ever-changing modern world.
解析：推断题，希望通过这篇文章推断出作者的一些想法。文章中the abstraction of the idea of cash makes me uneasy.和What bothers me about the death of the wallet is the change it represents in our physical environment.作者提到对钱包的消失感到不安，同时钱包的消失反应了社会环境的变化，说明作者对这种变化感到不安，因此选择D项。A，B均未提及，C项只是对文章结尾两句话的一个解释，不是作者所要表达的主要意图。
Part III Reading Comprehension
Everybody sleeps, but what people stay up late to catch—or wake up early in order not to miss—varies by culture.
From data collected, it seems the things that cause us to lose the most sleep, on average, are sporting events, time changes, and holidays.
Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight savings time. Russians, for example, began to wake up about a half-hour later each day after President Vladimir Putin shifted the country permanently to “winter time” starting on October 26.
Russia’s other late nights and early mornings generally correspond to public holidays. On New Year’s Eve, Russians have the world’s latest bedtime, hitting the hay at around 3:30 a.m.
Russians also get up an hour later on International Women’s Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives.
Similarly, Americans’ late nights, late mornings, and longest sleeps fall on three-day weekends.
Canada got the least sleep of the year the night it beat Sweden in the Olympic hockey (冰球) final.
The World Cup is also chiefly responsible for sleep deprivation (剥夺). The worst night for sleep in the U. K. was the night of the England-Italy match on June 14. Brits stayed up a half-hour later to watch it, and then they woke up earlier than usual the next morning thanks to summer nights, the phenomenon in which the sun barely sets in northern countries in the summertime. That was nothing, though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a haft later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.
It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it’s likely that only the richest people do. And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person. Even if that’s the case, though, the above findings are still striking. If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut-eye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing?
26、51. What does the author say about people’s sleeping habits?
A They are culture-related.
B They affect people’s health.
C They change with the seasons.
D They vary from person to person.
答案解析：
51.A) They are culture-related.
解析：细节题，sleeping habits定位到第一段Everybody sleeps, but what people stay up late to catch—or wake up early in order not to miss—varies by culture.每个人都会睡觉，但是有些人为了赶上什么而熬夜，有些人为了不要错过什么而早起，这些都是根据文化差异而不同的。由此，人们的睡眠习惯与文化有关。故选A。
27、52. What do we learn about the Russians regarding sleep?
A They don’t fall asleep until very late.
B They don’t sleep much on weekends.
C They get less sleep on public holidays.
D They sleep longer than people elsewhere.
答案解析：
52.C) They get less sleep on public holidays.
解析：推断题，由Russian定位到第三段，Russia’s other late nights and early mornings generally correspond to public holidays.俄罗斯人在节假日也会晚睡早起。A项他们睡得晚太绝对。B项周末睡得少未提及，D项他们比其他地方的人睡的多未提及，C项他们在节假日睡得少与节假日晚睡早起意思一致。
28、53. What is the major cause for Europeans’ loss of sleep?
A The daylight savings time.
B The colorful night life.
C The World Cup.
D The summertime.
答案解析：
53. C) The World Cup.
解析：推断题，根据选项中的World Cup定位到第八段，The World Cup is also chiefly responsible for sleep deprivation(剥夺）, The worst night for sleep in the U.K. was the night of the England-Italy match on June 14. That was nothing, though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.
29、54. What is the most probable reason for some rich people to use a device to record their sleep patterns?
A They have trouble falling asleep.
B They want to get sufficient sleep.
C They are involved in a sleep research.
D They want to go to bed on regular hours.
答案解析：
54. B) They want to get sufficient sleep.
解析：细节题，由device，record等词定位到第九段，It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns, in some of these nations, it’s likely that only the richest people do. And people who elect to track their sleep may try to get more sleep than the average person.并不是每个人都有可以记录睡眠的设备，只有最富有的人才拥有这个设备。人们记录睡眠是为了比大众获得更多的睡眠。与题目中B选项吻合。
30、55. What does the author imply in the last paragraph?
A Sleeplessness does harm to people’s health.
B Few people really know the importance of sleep.
C It is important to study our sleep patterns.
D Average people probably sleep less than the rich.
答案解析：
55. B) Few people really know the importance of sleep.
解析：推断题，根据题目定位最后一段，If the most health-conscious among us have such deep swings in our shut-eye levels throughout the year, how much sleep are the rest of us losing? 如果这些最关注自己健康的人的睡眠时间都有很大波动，那么我们其余的人又失去了多少睡眠呢？表达了作者对人们不重视睡眠的担忧，因此选B。
