Eating better and more adventurously is becoming an obsession, especially among people with money to spend. Healthier eating-and not-so-healthy eating-as well as the number and variety of food choices and venues continue to increase at an ever quickening pace. Globalization is the master trend that will drive the world of food in the years ahead. Consumers traveling the globe, both virtually and in reality, will be able to sweep up ingredients, packaged foods, recipes, and cooking techniques from every comer of the earth at an ever-intensifying and accelerating pace. Formerly remote ingredients and cooking styles are creating a whole new culinary mosaic as they are transplanted and reinterpreted all over the world. Many factors are behind this, but none more so than the influence of the great international hotel chains. Virtually every chef who has worked for Hilton, Westin, Peninsula, or any other major chain gathers global experience in locales as diverse as Singapore, New Orleans, Toronto, and Dubai. At each stop, they carry away cooking ideas and techniques they can and do use elsewhere. This trend will gain even greater momentum as ambitious young adults stake their own futures on internationalization, treating broader food away as an important aspect of their own advancement. Young people will need knowledge of food and ingredients from different continents and cultures as one aspect of socialization, enculturation, cultural exchange, and success. In country after country, there seems little doubt that global cuisine will make its biggest inroads among the younger set. Many in the generations now coming of age will treat world-ranging food knowledge and experience as key elements in furthering their personal plans, business acumen, and individual growth. The Internet has made global contacts a matter of routine. Computer networking will permit chefs and others in the food industry, including consumers, to link directly with the best available authorities in faraway nations, supplementing or bypassing secondhand sources of information altogether. Time, with all its implications, will also be a factor in emerging world food trends. More and more of us are destined to operate on global time-that is, at full tilt 24 hours a day. This will become the norm for companies with resources scattered all over the planet. Beyond the 24-hour supermarkets many of us already take for granted, there will also be three-shift shopping centers open at any hour. Restaurants in the great business capitals intent on cultivating an international clientele will serve midnight breakfasts or break-of-dawn dinners (with the appropriate wines) without raising a single eyebrow.
单选题 From the first two paragraphs we can learn that the trend of food obsession is______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:本题是一道细节题。参见文中前两段:第1段谈到人们吃得越来越好,不管食物是否有利于健康;第2段谈到全球化使得这一趋势风行全世界(all over the world)。由此可见,人们对食物迷恋的趋势在全球范围越来越流行。
单选题 According to the text the trend of new culinary mosaic is most accelerated by______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:本题是推论题。参见文中第3段第1句:Many factors are behind this,but none more so than the influence of the great international hotel chains.由此可知,大型连锁国际饭店加快了新烹饪工艺(new culinary mosaic)的传播。
单选题 Judging from context, the phrase "global cuisine"( Para. 4) probably mean______.
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:本题是词汇题。根据第4段前面几句所谈的食物成分、饮食文化内容,可猜测cuisine是与饮食有关的烹饪。
单选题 We can infer from the passage that______.
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:本题是推论题。参见文章的最后一段,对于全天24小时营业,作者用的都是将来时态:are destined to,there will also be,will serve midnight breakfasts。可见,目前的餐馆还没有实行全天24小时营业。
单选题 The best title for the passage may be______.
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:本题是主旨题。根据全文内容可得出此中心思想。其他选项都比较片面,不宜充当标题。