单选题 Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage convenience food helps companies by creating growth, but what is its effect on people? For people who think cooking was the foundation of civilization the microwave is the last enemy The communion of eating together Is easily broken by a device that liberates households citizens from waiting for mealtimes The first great revolution in the history of food is in danger of being undone The companionship of the campfire cooking pot and common table, which have helped to bond humans in collaborative living for at least 150000 year could be destroyed Meals have certainly sated from the rise of convenience food. The only meals regularly taken together in Britain these days are at the weekend, among rich families struggling to retain something of the old symbol of togetherness Indeed, the day’s first meal has all but, disappeared, In the 20 st century the leisure British breakfast was undermined by the com flake in the 21 st breakfast is vanishing altogether a victim of the quick cup of coffee in Starbucks and the cereal bar Convenience food has also made people forget how to cook one of the apparent paradoxes of modern food is that while the amount of lime spent cooking meals has fallen from 60 minutes a day in 1980 to 13M a day in 2002, the number of cooks and television programmer on cooking has multiplied But perhaps this isn’t a paradox Maybe it is became people can’t cook anymore, so they need to be told how to do it, or maybe it is because people buy books about hobbies...golf, yachting...not about chores. Cooking has erased to be a chore and has became a hobby Although everybody lives in the kitchen its facilities are increasingly for display rather than for use Mr Silverstein’s now book ,“trading up” look at mid-range consumer’s milling now to splash out He says that industrial-style Viking cook pot, with nearly twice the heat output of other range ranges, have helped to push the "kitchen as theater” trend in hour goods They cost from $1000 to $9000 Some 75% of them are never used. Convenience also has an impact on the healthiness, or otherwise, of food of course there is nothing bad about ready to eat food itself You don’t get much healthier than an apple, and supermarkets sell a better for you range of ready-meals, But there is a limit to the number of apples people want to eat, and these days it is easier for people to eat the kind of food bloat makes them fat The three Harvard economists in their paper "why have Americans brooms more obese?” point out that in the past, if people wanted to eat fatty hot food they had to cook it. That took rune and energy a good chip needs frying twice, once to cook the potato and once to get it crispy Which discouraged of consumption of that cost of food Mass preparation of .food took away that constraint Nobody has to cut and double cook their own fries these days Who has the time?

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单选题 What is the paradox in the third paragraph?

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单选题 Which of the following might the another mostly agree with?