5．What does MLE website praise Stonie for in Paragraph 3? A．His easy manner. B．His effortless speed. C．His huge eating amount. D．His dynamic performance.
B 解析：推理判断题。第三段提到“像一辆安静的汽车在高速公路上以最快的速度从你身边驶过；像拳击手闪电般地出拳；像速滑运动员穿着非常紧身的赛服，四肢伸展的速度比时钟嘀嗒作响的速度都快。杰出的选手让它看起来很容易”，这部分是通过把Stonie吃南瓜馅饼的速度与汽车、拳击手和速滑运动员的速度进行对比来突出Stonie吃的速度以及他给观众的毫不费力的感觉。故选B。
6．Whose approach is contrary to the light-hearted approach? A．Major League Eating.
B．World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship. C．The Turkey Day races in Broomfield, Colorado. D．Pumpkin Palooza in Sparks, Nevada.
B 解析：细节理解题。根据第二段可知，World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship比的是谁吃得最多，这当然不会是轻松的(light-hearted)。故选B。
7．What do people value most in the Turkey Day celebration in Broomfield? A．Health. C．Competition.
B．Energy. D．Skill.
A 解析：推理判断题。根据第四段中的“contestants just have to eat one piece of pie (or about one-sixth of a pie) as fast as possible...for those who want to lose weight”可知， 在这里参加比赛的人只比赛吃一块南瓜馅饼的速度，随后的赛跑是为那些要减轻体重的人准备的，故可推知，在Broomfield的Turkey Day celebration中， 人们最注重健康。故选A。
8．Which of the following can replace the underlined phrase? A．random C．endless
B．playful D．vital
D 解析：词义猜测题。根据画线部分前的“The winners are chosen by audience applause, so style, talent and humor”可知， 这个比赛的胜者由观众的掌声选出，因此可推知，参赛者的风格、才能和幽默感很重要，故vital与画线部分意义相近。故选D。
【新闻报道类】
(2017·甘肃天水甘谷二中一模)
Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity(名人) chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver，according to a report from Oxford University.
The effect of the celebrity role models，who have given cooking a more manly picture，has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.
According to the research by Prof.Jonatahn Gershuny，who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford，men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking，up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961.
Prof.Gershuny said，“The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend.There has been 40 years of sexual equality，but there is another 40 years probably to come.”
Women，who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking，now spend just one hour and seven minutes—a great fall，but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men.
Some experts have named these men in aprons as “Gastrosexuals (men using cooking skills to impress friends)”，who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by the success of Ramsay，Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall，Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.
“I was married in 1974.When my father came to visit me a few weeks later，I was wearing an apron when I opened the door.He laughed，” said Prof.Gershuny.“That would never happen now.”
Two-thirds of adults say that they come together to share at least three times a week，even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table.Prof.Gershuny pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a table—with many “family meals” in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room，and shared by family members.“The family meal has changed a lot，and few of us eat—as I did when I was a child—at least two meals a day together as a family.But it has survived in a different format.”
语篇解读 牛津大学的一篇报道说，男性下厨的时间比以前多了。一方面的原因是男性名人厨师的影响，另一方面更多的是男女平等观念的影响。 4．What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before? A．The development of sexual equality campaign. B．The influence of popular female chefs. C．The change of female’s view on cooking. D．The improvement of cooks’ status. 答案 A
解析 细节理解题。根据第二段中的“The effect of the celebrity role models，who have given cooking a more manly picture，has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality...”可知，男性名人在电视上展示厨艺和受到性别平等的心理驱使，导致男性在做饭上花得时间更多了。故选A。 5．What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking? A．Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.
B．It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women. C．Women spend much less time on cooking than before.
D．There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961. 答案 C
解析 细节理解题。根据第五段的内容可知，女性下厨的时间比以前少了，但是还是比男性多。故
2020年高考阅读理解话题分类指导专项训练
