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  3. What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answer lies in the way Americans live tod

What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answer lies in the way Americans live tod

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问题     What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answer lies in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range.
    Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother.
    Today about half of the country’s married women are employed outside the home. But, unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that chore.
    Instead, many have become, in a sense, prisoners of the completely cooked convenience meals. It is easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long, hard day.
    Also, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents with children to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorced mature people, have been alone rather than as part of a family unit and don’t want to bother cooking for one.
    Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it does not require any dressing up, it offers a "fun" break in the daily routine, and the expense of money seems small. It can be eaten in the car — sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out — or on the run. Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of the handy disposable wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it is finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manner.
People who live alone prefer not to cook at home on the ground that______.
选项 A、they are too busy working to think of cooking
B、they consider cooking for one person is too troublesome
C、they think eating outside from time to time is enjoyable
D、they want to share every meal with the friends
答案B
解析 事实细节题。根据题干中的alone可将本题出处定位于第五段最后一句。本句指出，许多年轻人和年老者以及未婚和离婚的成年人都是一个人住，而不是家庭中的一员，他们不愿意麻烦为一个人做饭。由此可知，独居的人不愿意在家做饭，是因为他们觉得为一个人做饭太麻烦，故答案为[B]项。
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