单选题 Fried foods have long been frowned upon. Nevertheless, the skillet(长柄平底煎锅) is about our handiest and most useful piece of kitchen equipment. Strong woodcutters 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 afflicted by 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(消化道) more readily than the boiled type. Furthermore, be learned, by watching the progress of the contents of the stomach by means of the fluoroscope(荧光检查仪), 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(权威意见) 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(胃的) 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(胆汁) 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 rose because an "oracle"(圣贤) suffered from dyspepsia(消化不良) 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 proved fact. It should have been refuted long since, as experience has demonstrated its falsity.

单选题 This passage focuses on ______.
A．why the skillet is a handy piece of kitchen equipment
B．the digestibility of fried foods
C．how the experts can mislead the public in the area of food preparation
D．why fried foods have long been frowned upon

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干信息this passage focuses on可知解答本题需通观全文。
整篇文章谈论的主题是油炸食品是否易于消化。第一段提到：人们一直不喜欢油炸食品，因为据说这种食品不好消化，但科学家却发现，经过油炸的食物更容易在消化道里分解。第二段提到：人们反对油炸食品，说其会引起消化不良，是因为这种说法已经成为传统，但它却并非被证明了的事实，而实践已经证明了它的荒谬。综上所述，这篇文章的主题就是the digestibility of fried foods。故选B。

单选题 People engaged in active labor eat fried foods because ______.
A．they are healthful
B．they are much cheaper
C．they can be easily digested
D．they can provide the calories the workers need

单选题 The author implies that the public should ______
A．prepare some foods by frying
B．avoid fried foods if possible
C．fry foods for adults but not for children
D．prepare all foods by frying

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干信息implies that the public should可将答案定位到第二段第一句。
题干问作者对公众烹饪食品有何建议，作者在第一段提到，据实验证明，油炸食品非但不会导致消化不良，而且还比较容易消化。第二段开头处又提到：“我们没有必要让我们的食品浸在油里，但与此相反，油炸食品这个方法被广泛禁止好像也没有什么依据。”可见，作者的观点是人们是可以食用一些油炸食品的。故选A。

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 ______
A．grateful B．factual C．sarcastic D．humorous

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 根据题干信息an "oracle" suffered from dyspepsia which he ascribed to some fried item on the menu可将答案定位到第二段第二句。
题干中的引文选自第二段中间处，作者提到：“人们最初对油炸食品的非难，可能源自某位‘圣贤’，这位前辈偶尔消化不良就认定是吃了幕单上某些油炸食品的结果。于是他的这种论调传播开来。”作者的讽刺语气跃然纸上。加之oracle本身就在引号里，更足以证明其讽刺性。故选C。