单选题
Fried foods have long been frowned upon. Nevertheless, the skillet is about our handiest and most useful piece of kitchen equipment. Stalwart lumberjacks and others engaged in active labor requiring 4,000 calories per day or more will take approximately one-third of their rations prepared in this fashion. Meat, eggs, and French toast cooked in this way are served in millions of homes daily. Apparently the consumers are not beset with more signs of indigestion than afflict those who insist upon broiling, roasting, or boiling. Some years ago one of our most eminent physiologists investigated the digestibility of fried potatoes. He found that the pan variety was more easily broken down for assimilation than when deep fat was employed. The latter, however, dissolved within the alimentary tract more readily than the boiled type. Furthermore, he learned, by watching the progress of the contents of the stomach by means of the fluoroscope, that fat actually accelerated the rate of digestion. Now all this is quite in contrast with "authority". Volumes have been written on nutrition, and everywhere the dictum has been accepted--no fried edibles of any sort for children. A few will go so far as to forbid this style of cooking wholly. Now and then an expert will be bold enough to admit that he uses them himself. The absence of discomfort being explained on the ground that he possesses a powerful gastric apparatus. We can of course sizzle perfectly good articles to death so that they will be leathery and tough. But thorough heating, in the presence of shortening, is not the awful crime that it has been labeled. Such dishes stimulate rather than retard contractions of the gall bladder. Thus it is that bile mixes with the nutriment shortly after it leaves the stomach.
We don't need to allow our foodstuffs to become oil-soaked, but other than that, there seems to be no basis for the widely heralded prohibition against this method. But notions become fixed. The first condemnation probably arose because an "oracle" suffered from dyspepsia, which he ascribed to some fried item on the menu. The theory spread. Others agreed with him, and after a time the doctrine became incorporated in our textbooks. The belief is now tradition rather than a proved fact. It should have been refuted long since, as experience has demonstrated its falsity.
单选题 This passage is primarily concerned with ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】这篇短文主要谈油炸食品的易消化性。第一段列举了一些例证,说明食品的易消化性。比如说,若干年以前,一位非常杰出的心理学家就调查过油炸土豆的易消化性。他利用荧光镜对胃部的食物进行观察,获知脂肪实际上加快了消化速度。
单选题 The main idea of this passage is that ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】尽管传统的观点谴责油炸食品,但是油炸食品同以其他方式制作的食品一样易于消化。作者在第一段说,显然,(油炸食品的)消费者们像坚持以烘、烤、煮的方式制作食品的人一样也没有受到消化不良症状的困扰。
单选题 Apparently much fried food is eaten because ______.
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】人们吃大量的油炸食品显然是因为它易于制作。根据第一段第二句,长柄平底煎锅也许是最方便、最有用的厨具。这说明油炸食品易于准备,故选A。
单选题 The author strongly implies that the public should ______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】作者强烈地暗示,大众应该通过油炸的方式制作一些食品。作者在第二段开头说,我们没有必要让食品油乎乎的,但是,除此以外,似乎没有什么理由广泛地禁止油炸食品的方法。
单选题 When the author says that an "oracle" suffered from dyspepsia which he ascribed to some fried item on the menu, he is being ______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】作者说一位消化不良的“大智者”把这种症状归因于菜谱上的某种油炸食品,他用的是讽刺的口吻。作者显然讽刺那位“大智者”(oracle)以偏概全,最终造成了以讹传讹的后果。