Karen and Ken Mullin, a young professional couple in Cleveland, own fifty cookbooks and two fully equipped kitchens in their house. Yet they rarely cook their own meals; instead, on their way home from work they usually stop at a supermarket and choose two portions of meat loaf and a container of ready-to-serve potatoes. "My job," says Karen, "is to pour the salad from the bag. "A half-century after the first TV dinner was born, the food industry is approaching its long-sought dream of relieving people like the Mullins of unpaid labor in the final, and arguably most profitable, step by which a cow gets turned into meat loaf. Increasingly, tables in America’s kitchens are used not for cutting or peeling but for putting takeout food onto plates. For those who even bother with plates. According to Harry Balzar, an influential food-industry researcher, American dinners that came from a takeout counter increased by 24 percent in the past decade. "We thought the micro-wave would be a cooking device," says Harry Balzer, "but we find it reheating takeout pizza. "Across the United States, entire business models are being transformed. Supermarket takeout counters, formerly a place where unsold chickens were coated with sauce, increasingly resemble high-end corporate cafeterias, with sushi bars and stir-fry stations.One psychologist thinks the trend toward healthier eating is responsible: Americans have finally gotten the message that it’s bad to eat fried chicken, so they’re doing it at home where no one can see them.Of course, there are people you wouldn’t expect to cook at home, like Steve Traxler, an unmarried Chicago theater producer, whose refrigerator contains little more than orange juice, wine and leftovers. I think they’re reading them in bed," says Rozanne Gold, author of a cookbook.It’s not entirely a question of time. The takeout fashion is fueled, in part, by the popularity of foods like sushi, which even adventuresome American cooks are unlikely to try to make at home. And takeout fills another need as well, for the atmosphere of the home-cooked dinner. From the text we can learn that the Mullins ()
A. are experienced in cooking
B. are expert at food shopping
C. often go dining out at a restaurant
D. often eat ready-made food at home
Amongst the most popular books written today are those which are usually classified as science fiction. Hundreds of titles are (1) every year and are read by all kinds of people. (2) , some of the most successful films of recent years have been (3) on science fiction stories.It is often thought that science fiction is a fairly new (4) in literature, but its ancestors can be (5) in books written hundreds of years ago. These books were often concerned (6) the presentation of some form of ideal society, a (7) which is still often found in modern stories.Most of the classics of science fiction, (8) , have been written within the last one hundred years. Books by writers such as Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, to (9) just two well-known authors, have been translated into many languages.Modern science fiction writers don’t write about men from Mars or space adventure stories. They are more interested in (10) the results of technical developments on society and the human mind; or in (11) future worlds which are a reflection of the world which we live in now. (12) this, their writing has obvious (13) implications.In an age where scientific fact frequently (14) science fiction, the writers may find it difficult to keep (15) scientific advances. Those who are (16) clear-sighted to see the way we are going, however, may provide a valuable (17) on how to deal with the problems which society will (18) face as it tries to (19) its new technology and come to terms with a continually (20) view of the world. 19()
A. realize
B. master
C. control
D. accomplish
有红、蓝、黄、白、紫五种颜色的皮球,分别装在五个盒子里。甲、乙、丙、丁、戊五人猜测盒子里皮球的颜色。甲:第二盒是紫的,第三盒是黄的。乙:第二盒是蓝的,第四盒是红的。丙:第一盒是红的,第五盒是白的。丁:第三盒是蓝的,第四盒是白的。戊:第二盒是黄的,第五盒是紫的。猜完之后打开盒子发现,每人都只猜对了一种,并且每盒都有一个人猜对。 由此可以推测( )。
A. 第一个盒子内的皮球是蓝色的
B. 第三个盒子内的皮球不是黄色的
C. 第四个盒子内的皮球是白色的
D. 第五个盒子内的皮球是红色的