单选题 Americans are often in a hurry. They rush to work, rush home, and rush through their meals. Workers and students usually have only half hour or an hour for lunch. As a result, a lot of Americans go and eat in fast food restaurants. The service is quick, and the prices are cheap.
What do fast food restaurants serve? Of course, many of them have hot dogs, hamburgers, fried chicken, pizza, or ice cream. But other fast food restaurants specialize (专门从事) in different foods. Some places serve roast beef. Some serve fish and seafood. In fact, you can find popular foreign dishes in fast food restaurants, too. There are Italian restaurants with Italian sausage (香肠) and spaghetti (通心粉). And there are Chinese restaurants with Cantonese (粤式的) or Sichuan foods.
A lot of fast food restaurants are franchises (产品经销特许权), a very popular form of business in the United States. There are many restaurants in a franchise, and each franchise has a different owner. However, all of the restaurants are under one central management, and the name of the restaurants is the same everywhere in the United States — and in foreign countries, too. This kind of central control guarantees that, for example McDonald's hamburgers and Kentucky Fried Chicken taste the same everywhere.
In modern American life, fast food restaurants are very important. They provide quick and inexpensive meals for American people in a hurry.

单选题 Why do many Americans eat their meals in fast food restaurants?

单选题 When do Americans usually go to fast food restaurants?

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。文章第一段提到上班一族和学生都只有半个或者一个小时的午餐时间，接着又说他们去快餐店吃饭，即“Workers and students usually have only a half hour or an hour for lunch. As a result, a lot of Americans go and eat in fast food restaurants”，也就是说明美国人通常去那里吃中饭，故本题答案是[B]。

单选题 What kinds of fast food are discussed in the passage?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 细节题。参考文章第二段的内容，作者先提到快餐店经营如hot dogs, hamburgers, fried chicken, pizza, or ice cream, roast beef等本国食品，接着又讲到“In fact, you can find popular foreign dishes in fast food restaurants, too”，可以判断在文章中提到了美国和外国的食物。因此本题答案是[D]。