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1、雅安中学高雅安中学高 20132013 级高考前模拟（一）级高考前模拟（一）英英 语语第卷第二部分第二部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分阅读理解（共两节，满分 4040 分）分）第一节（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分）阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。AChristmas，Easter and Birthday parties can be difficult times for grandmothers and parents as they rush around trying to arrange the perfec
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9、successB.a magazine that helps the family to prepare for special occasionsC.a company that sells all sorts of products on the InternetD.a website that helps you to prepare for special occasions22.The purpose of the text is .A.to make children have a memorable holiday B.to show you how to shop on the
10、 InternetC.to give you some information about Granny Look D.to introduce some goods 23.You will fail to find any information at Christmas when you need .A.Christmas cards B.fun Advent Calendars C.Christmas gifts D.tickets for atheatresBMen are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by
11、 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 ti
12、me 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 so
13、cial 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 minutesa great fall，but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men.Some experts have nam
14、ed 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 FearnleyWhittingstall，Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.“I was married in 197
15、4.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.”Twothirds 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 dini
16、ng room table.Prof.Gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a tablewith 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 eatas I did when I was a childat least two meals a day together as a family.But it has survived in a different format.”24.What is one reason behind the trend t
