精品解析:【全国市级联考】山西省晋中市2016-2017学年高二下学期质量监测（优生检测）英语试题

山西省晋中市2016-2017学年高二下学期质量监测（优生检测） 英语试题 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分60分） 第一节（共l5小题；每小题3分，满分45分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A At a supermarket, two women are shopping. One is a stay-at-home housewife who loves to create delicious masterpieces. The other is a supervisor at an advertising agency. The two ladies stop in the frozen foods section. "I'm so tired, "sighs the professional woman." I don't know what to do about supper. "Her friend suggests, "What about a microwave dinner?" The weary professional sighs, "I don't feel like cooking tonight." It is true that Americans have cakes for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and instant dinners. Most Americans enjoy the convenience of prepackaged meals that can be served in 10 minutes or less. However, if you think American cooking means throwing the packaged contents into the microwave, think again. Many Americans recognize the value of cooking skills, admitting that there's nothing better than a good home-cooked meal. For those who need guidance in their cooking, recipes are lifesavers. Recipes list all the ingredients for a dish, the amount of each to use, and a description of how to put them together. Most good cooks have a shelf full of cookbooks ranging from locally published recipe collections to national bestsellers. Magazines devoted to home management, are full of tasty selections. Friends often increase their recipe collection by passing around their favorites cards. For experienced cooks, recipes are merely references. They often make adjustments, depending on the people they need to serve, the available ingredients and their personal taste. Some cooks prefer instead to depend on their feelings to cook the right flavors. Of course, as a "land of immigrants," America has imported all varieties of cooking. Most good cooks in America are "fluent" in several cooking "dialects": Mexican, Italian, Chinese and traditional American style, just to name a few. But whatever the dialect, cooking is a language everyone understan