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Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity c

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问题     Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity chefs(名人厨师)like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University.
    The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cookery a more manly image, has combined with a more general drive towards sexual equality, to mean men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961.
    According to 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 gender equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come."
    Women, who a generation ago spent a fraction under two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes — a dramatic fall, but they still spend far more time at the stove than men. Some critics say men have been inspired to pick up a spatula(锅铲)by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd.
    The report, commissioned by frozen food company Birds Eye, also makes clear that the family meal is limping(缓慢前进)on in far better health than some have suggested, thanks in part to a resurgence(复兴)in cooking by some consumers. Two-thirds of adults claim 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.
    Anne Murphy, general manager at Birds Eye, said: "The evening meal is still clearly central to family life and with some saying family time is on the increase and the appearance of a more frugal(节俭的)consumer, we think the return to tradition will continue as a trend."
    However, 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 completely different members of the family.
    "The family meal has changed very substantially, 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." [br] How did Prof. Jonatahn Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?
选项 A、It has become a thing of the past.
B、It is beneficial to the stability of the family.
C、It is very different from what it used to be.
D、It shouldn’t be advocated in modern times.
答案 C
解析 末段首句为Gershuny教授的原话：家庭用餐发生了很大变化，现在我们很少有人能与家人每天聚在一起吃至少两顿饭——就像我小的时候那样。C)是对该句的同义转述，故为答案。末段末句话锋一转，说它(即family meal)以另一种形式延续了下来，A)“家庭聚餐已经是过去的事情了”与此矛盾。B)“有利于家庭稳定”在文中没有提及。in a differentformat意为“以一种不同的形式”。
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