【单选题】
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part.Each of the passages is followed by 5 questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are 4 choices markedA,B,C、andD、Choose the best one.
{{B}}Passage One{{/B}}
TheAmerican desire for convenience also created the concept of fast-food restaurants, found in every city and almost every small town in the United States, and now exported all over the worlD、These fast-food restaurants, such as McDonald’s and KFC, serve sandwiches, salads, fried chicken, seafood, and other food to hurried customers in five minutes or less, often at a drive-up window. There are also a wide variety of restaurants that will deliverChinese food, pizza, and other dishes to people’s homes in about a half-hour. In many areas there are "take-out taxis" that will deliver food from the menus of 20 or 30 different restaurants for a small charge. For those who prefer to prepare their food at home,American grocery stores are full of convenience foods that are packaged and ready to cook or even precookeD、
Like microwave ovens and dishwashers, fast-food and take-out restaurants are convenient because they save theAmerican consumer time that would otherwise be spent fixing meals or cleaning up. More than half of all the women in the United States are currently employeD、This includes mothers with children under the age of 18. More than half the women with little children under the age of six hold jobs. Sixty-eight percent of the women who have school-age children are employeD、Families with working mothers need all the time-savers they can get.
Thus, the conveniences thatAmericans desire reflect not so much a leisurely lifestyle as a busy lifestyle in which even minutes of time are too valuable to be wasteD、Alexis de Tocqueville was one of the first to see in this a curious paradox (自相矛盾) in theAmerican character. He observed thatAmericans were so busy working to acquire comforts and conveniences that they were unable to relax and to enjoy leisure time when they had it. Today, manyAmericans have what one medical doctor has called "the hurry sickness".
B．they offer nutritious and tasty food
C．they provide superior service
D．they are convenient
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
细节题。根据第二、三段，快餐、外卖店很方便，避免了他们做饭、饭后洗涮等家务，因此美国人喜欢他们。D是正确答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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