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Millions of hamburgers are eaten by people in every corner of the world every day. Together with hot dogs and Coca-Cola , hamburgers have been the most important American contribution(贡献) to international eating habits.
The name "hamburger" has nothing to do with ham(火腿) . It is believed that the hamburger was first brought to the United States by Germans from the city of Hamburg some time in the1850s. From then on the hamburger became a kind of popular American fast food.
Now young people in Asia, Europe and South America have learned to eat while on the move: a hamburger in one hand and a soft drink in the other. There have been cries to anger from Italy and Spain about the shortening of the usual lunch break. Instead, young people have discovered a lunch for which they don' t 'have to stop at all.
However, there are clouds over the hamburger ' s world. People who concern about health dislike the high animal fat in the hamburger. They think the time saved seems a high price to pay for poor health. The packages in which hamburgers are usually served are causing serious pollution problems in many large cities. Big hamburger companies are destroying large areas of South American rainforest to 'produce the cheap meat they need. So, will the hamburger celebrate its next century?
68. In which way do hamburgers change people' s eating habits?
[A]People can have their meals at any time of the day.
[ B] They can be served in any restaurant.
[C] People can have them with soft drinks.
[D]Meal time can be greatly reduced.
What is the purpose of this advertisement?
A.To promote healthy diets
B.To sell hamburgers
C.To offer a 15% discount
D.To advise the opening of a new restaurant
听力原文: Foreigners joining a Chinese dinner party should know and follow Chinese table manners. Before dinner you sometimes get a hot, damp cloth, with which you can clean your face and hands. It is a custom in China to have some tea or other drinks before the meal is served. First, some cold dishes are provided, which are placed on a round glass plate in the middle of the table. Rice or noodles are served and should not be mixed with other food. Chinese people prefer using chopsticks instead of forks and knives. At a dinner party Chinese people enjoy drinking beer or alcohol. Everybody gets up, raises their glasses and touches the others' glasses, saying ganbei!
What's the purpose of getting a hot, damp cloth before dinner?
A.To clean the table.
B.To put it on the knees.
C.To clean face and hands.
The main course served in American meals is usually meat, fish, or poultry, but rarely is more than one of these served as a first course, however.
Most Americans eat breakfast and lunch quickly unless it is social, business, or family occasion. The evening meal, however, is usually longer and a time for the family to gather together. Rushing through day-time meals is part of the fast pace in America. Another reason for rushing through day-time meals is that many people who eat breakfast and lunch in restaurants are usually crowded with people waiting for a place so that they, too, can be served and return to work at the proper time. So each one hurries to make room for the next person. As with busy people everywhere there is a real difference between a meal that is eaten in a hurry and one that can be enjoyed with friends during one's leisure.
In America, salads are very popular and are served especially ______.
A.all year
B.in the summer
C.at lunch
D.at dinner
ssible, but people eat 34 billion hamburgers a year. This is enough to make a line of hamburgers around the world four times.
The favorite place to buy hamburgers is a fast-food restaurant. In these restaurants, people order their food, wait just a few minutes, and carry it to their tables themselves. They can eat it in the restaurant or take the food out and eat it at home, at work, or in a park. At some restaurants people can drive up beside a window. They order the food, and a worker hands it to them through the window. Then they eat in their cars.
Hamburgers are not the only kind of food that fast-food restaurants serve. Some serve fish, chicken, beef sandwiches, or Mexican food. They also serve fries, shakes (a drink made from milk and ice cream) , soft drinks and coffee.
Fast-food restaurants are very popular because the service is fast and the food is inexpensive. For many people, this is more important than quality of the food. These restaurants are also popular because the food is always the same. People have known that if they eat at a company' s restaurant in the north or south of the city, the food will be the same.
In a fast-food restaurant, people______.
A.stand up to eat
B.are served at table
C.eat in a hurry
D.serve themselves
The fast-food is convenient owing to the following factors except______.
A.it doesn't take you much time to have a meal
B.you can get a lot of salt and fat in your fast-food
C.you can take your order without leaving your car
D.you can take the food to anywhere you like
Fast-food restaurants are popular because______.
A.people are free to order their food
B.the quality of the food is good
C.it is cheaper and faster to have meals there
D.people can find fast-food restaurants everywhere
Which of the following sentences is not correct?
A.The service is fast and the food is cheap in fast-food restaurant.
B.Everyone likes eating fast food.
C.People can find the same food in all the restaurants.
D.People can take fast food out.
What" s the main idea of the passage?
A.Americans eat enough hamburgers to make a line around the world four times.
B.Fast-food restaurants are popular in the United States.
C.Some people can eat fast food in parks.
D.Mothers who work outside home often have meals in fast-food restaurants.
Human beings are naturally like rats – we are afraid of anything new. If you give rats some food that they have never had before, they will turn their backs on it out of fear. We are the same. It is possible to introduce new foods, but only in the right psychological context, like a birthday. Once the introduction has been made, the fact of having a full stomach is physically pleasing, so the next time it is easier. However, some foods are more tempting than others. Scientists are sure that we are born with a sweet tooth. This is why children have a natural desire for sugar.
Another discovery is how a sense of smell affects our appetite. In one experiment, chemical substances were put on the tongues of human participants. At the same time, air was blown down the participants’ noses so they could not smell the chemical substances. As a result, no two people got the same sensation from the same food. Physical, psychological, and cultural differences shaped the response.
The intensity of feelings about food depends upon knowledge of it. The average student who eats a new dish will have only a cloudy image of it, but for some people whose tongues are trained to appreciate fine differences, they’ll have an exciting experience, much like someone who has a great musical ear. This is why someone who eats hamburgers everyday likes them and becomes a hamburger expert. They can tell the difference between a Big Mac and a Burger King, just like the Japanese can tell the difference between varieties of rice that taste the same to Europeans.
21. Why do children prefer a hamburger to a home-cooked meal?
A.The person doesn’t get the instruction from the brain.
B.The brain doesn’t respond well to unfamiliar tastes.
C.The food made at home is not tasty.
D.Children prefer food that is easy to make.
Businessmen can travel from London to New York in three hours and lots of people exceed the seventy-mile-per-hour speed limit on motorways. A person of 75 is not old these days. A serious illness does not mean certain death because there have been so many advances in medical science. We no longer need to be afraid of contracting diseases like polio or smallpox. I can speak to my son in Australia from my own sitting room here in Manchester, watch athletes running a race on the other side of the world without moving from my own home and I can even do my shopping while I sit here in an armchair. I never need to worry about food going bad in the warm weather and, at the flick of a switch, I can have a hot meal in a couple of minutes. So, it seems, the quality of life has greatly improved since my own childhood.
I'm not convinced, however, that people are happier today than they were 50 years ago. We are certainly materially better off than we were but most people still seem to be weighed down by problems. My daughter and her family are a good illustration. They have a spacious, comfortable home with every labor-saving device you can think of. There's a washing machine, a clothes dryer, a food processor, a vacuum cleaner and all sorts of other household items which are designed to save time but it seems to me that my daughter and her husband just spend all that "saved" time working! They never relax and are always complaining of being tired and "stressed".
What is the passage mainly about?
A.How life has improved.
B.How life has become worse.
C.A comparison of life now and that in the past.
D.Memory of life in the past.
听力原文: In different parts of Britain, people call their meals by different names. It's very complicated. For most people the main meal of the day is called dinner. But some families eat this at mid-day, others eat it in the evening. People who have dinner in the evening have a smaller meal called lunch at mid-day, and people who have dinner at mid-day usually have another meal which they call tea between five and six, or they have supper a little later.
For most people, breakfast is a bowl of cereal followed by toast and jam with a cup of coffee or tea. Lunch is usually a very quick meal; most people have a sandwich or a light snack. Dinner may have two or three courses. First a starter, for example soup, then a main course with meat or fish and finally a dessert.
It is probably tree that British food does not have a very good reputation among people from overseas. In general, though, it has improved considerably in recent years.
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