专题03：阅读理解说明文-2023年广东省广州市11区中考英语一模及名校模拟试题分类汇编（原卷版+解析版）

专题03：阅读理解说明文 2023年广东省广州市11区中考英语一模及名校模拟试题分类汇编（原卷版） 1.（2023·广东广州·统考一模）Take your dog for a meal. At more restaurants, including some of the most fashionable ones, dining with animals is now part of the evening’s menu. When locals in Key West go out to dinner, a popular place is an open-air restaurant. On entering the restaurant, they’ll likely see a cat next to a sign that says “Pet the Cat, $1.” For the owners of the restaurant, serving human guests alongside their pets is a no-brainer.  Since they opened the restaurant, they’ve had a friendly rule towards pets, the one that allows pets into the restaurant in a given week. Americans more and more depend on restaurants (they eat 4.2 meals out each week), it’s only natural that the family pet is finally getting into the act. Enter “pet-friendly restaurants” into an Internet search engine and many restaurants come out. Why do restaurants court pets? “Dogs never send their food back,” jokes one owner. The trend（趋势）doesn’t only belong to common places. Many high-rank restaurants also have followed the trend. And there are some cooks making a special effort to treat those with four legs. Lorie Ann,  co-owner and cook at a restaurant named Fish Wagon in Calif, specializing in German and French food, serves a free home-made “doggie burger” and a few doggie “cookies” to non-human guests. Even as more restaurants seek to draw pet owners, they are still the exception. Most local health rules make it clear that pets should be prevented from restaurants and suggest that they be kept out of open-air areas. Still, many officials don’t pay attention to the rules and allow pets to sit outside with their owners. To make pet owners convenient within the rules, some restaurants allow pets to sit with their owners only when the animals are “parked” just outside the designated（指定的）dining area. 1．Why does it become part of the evening’s menu to take pets for a meal naturally in America? A．Many restaurants aim to please non-human guests. B