新东方：2016年6月英语六级仔细阅读解析
Passage 2
These days, nobody needs cook. Families grazed on high-cholesterol
take-aways and microwaved ready meals. Cooking is an occasional hobby and a
vehicle for celebrity chefs. Which makes it odd that the kitchen has become the
heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the medieval castle, the
kitchen is to the 21st-century home.
The money spent on kitchens has risen with their status. In America the
kitchen market is now worth $170billion, five times the country’s film industry.
In the year to August 2007, IKEA, a Swedish furniture chain, sold over one
million kitchens worldwide. The average budget for a “major” kitchen overhaul in
2006, calculates Remodelling magazine, was a staggering $54,000; even a “minor”
improvement cost on average $18,000.
Exclusively, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the
kitchen: Robinson & Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens,
offers a Georgian-style one which would cost £145,000- 155,000—excluding
building, plumbing and electrical work. Its big selling point is that nobody
else will have it: “You won’t see this kitchen anywhere else in the world.”
The elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that
of design showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social
change. Right into the early 20th century, kitchens were smoky, noisy places,
generally located underground, or to the back of the house, and as far from
living space as possible. That was as it should be: kitchens were for servants,
and the aspiring middle class wanted nothing to do with them.
But as the working classes prospered and the servant shortage set in,
housekeeping became a matter of interest to the educated class. One of the
pioneers of a radical new way of thinking about the kitchen was Catharine Esther
Beecher, sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe. In American Roman’s Home, published in
1869, the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific approach to household
management, designed to enhance the efficiency of a woman’s work and promote
order. Many contemporary ideas about kitchen design can be traced back to
another American, Chris-Frederick, who set about enhancing the efficiency of the
housewife. Her 1919 work, House-Engineering: Scientific Management in the Home,
was based on detailed observation of a wife’s daily routine. She borrowed the
principle of efficiency on the factory floor and applied domestic tasks on the
kitchen floor.
Frederick’s central idea, that “stove, sink and kitchen table must be
placed in such a relation that useless steps are avoided entirely”, inspired the
first fully fitted kitchen, designed in the 1920s by Margarete
Schutter-Lihotsky. It was a modernist triumph, and many elements remain central
features of today’s kitchen.
51. What does the author say about the kitchen of today?
A) It is where housewives display their cooking skills.
B) It is where the family entertains important guests.
C) It has become something odd in a modern house.
D) It is regarded as the center of a modern home.
52. Why does the Georgian-style kitchen sell at a very high price?
A) It is believed to have tremendous artistic value.
B) No duplicate is to be found in any other place.
C) It is manufactured by a famous British company.
D) No other manufacturer can produce anything like it.
53. What does the change in the status of the kitchen reflect?
A) Improved living conditions. C) Technological progress.
C) Women’s elevated status. D) Social change.
54. What does the Beecher sisters’ idea of a kitchen?
A) A place where women could work more efficiently.
B) A place where high technology could be applied.
C) A place of interest to the education people.
D) A place to experiment with new ideas.
55. What do we learn about today’s kitchen?
A) It represent the rapid technological advance in people’s daily life.
B) Many of its central features are no different from those of the
1920s.
C) It has been transformed beyond recognition.
D) Many of its functions have changes greatly.
【试题解析】
51.D解析：根据“the kitchen of today”及顺序原则定位到第一段的“Which makes it odd that the
kitchen has become the heart of the modern house: what the great hall was to the
medieval castle, the kitchen is to the 21st-century home.”，题干的the kitchen of
today与“the kitchen has become the heart of the modern
house”，对应，其中today同义替换为modern，与D答案吻合“It is regarded as the center of a modern
home.”
52.B解析：根据“Georgian-style kitchen“ 找到第三段的“offers a Georgian-style one which
would cost £145,000- 155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical work.
”，再根据“sell at a very high price ”定位到“Its big selling point”，并且同义替换了，那么答案在“Its
big selling point” is that nobody else will have it: “You won’t see this kitchen
anywhere else in the world.”，这句话中is 后面解释了价格高的原因，且结构是A:B，A与B的意思一致，表达的“You won’t
see this kitchen anywhere else in the world“，独一无二，故答案是B”No duplicate is to be
found in any other place.“。
53.D 解析：根据“change in the status of the kitchen reflect“定位到了第四段”The
elevation of the room that once belonged only to the servants to that of design
showcase for the modern family tells the story of a century of social
change.“，定位比较隐含。”这句话中是由“once“到”modern“，体现了题干中的”change“，题干中的“reflects”同义替换成“tells”，故答案是D
social change。
54.A 解析：根据题干关键词定位在第五段 “the Beecher sisters recommended a scientific
approach to household management, designed to enhance the efficiency of a
woman’s work and promote order”， 从这一句可以看出Beecher sister对厨房的观点与women 和
efficiency有关，因此选择A.
55.B 解析：上一题定位在第五段，根据顺序出题原则，这一题的答案应该会在最后一段，从 “It was a modernist triumph,
and many elements remain central features of today’s
kitchen”，这句可以得出20世纪20年代的许多厨房的中心元素依然存在在今天。因此答案选择B.
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