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What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home The answers lie in the wa) 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 1900s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home that ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother. Unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women ,are not fully liberated from that chore.
It’s easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take the family out for pizzas oi burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after a long, hard day. Also nowadays, 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, live alone rather than as a part of a family unit and don’t want to bothei cooking for one. Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn’t require any dressing up, it offers a "fun" break in the daily routine, and the outlay 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 ta wash because of the handy disposable wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it’s finger food, no struggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manners.
According to the text, a drive-in window is a______

A. car window from which you can see the driver
B. window in the restaurant from which you get your meal in the car
C. place where you check the mechanic condition of your car
D. entrance where you return the used plates after eating
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Directions In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. In most cases, technology has not saved time, but enabled us to do more things. In the home, washing machines (36) to free women from having to toil over the laundry. In reality, they (37) us to change our clothes daily instead of weekly, creating seven times as much washing and ironing. Similarly, the weekly bath has been (38) by the daily shower, multiplying the hours spent on personal grooming. Meanwhile, technology has not only allowed work to spread into our leisure time--the laptop-on-the-beach syndrome-but (39) the new burden of dealing with faxes, e-mails and voicemails. It has also provided us with the (40) to spend hours fixing software glitches on our personal, computers or filling our heads with useless (41) from the Intemet. Technology apart, the Internet points the way to a second reason why we feel so time-pressed: the information explosion. There is another reason for our increased time (42) levels: rising prosperity. As ever-larger quantities of goods and services are produced, they have to be (43) Driven on by advertising, we do our best to oblige: (44) . So we suffer from what Wilson calls (45) In fact, not everyone is overstressed. It is a convenient shorthand to say we are all time-starved, but we have to remember that it only applies to half the population. (46)