I go to the barber’s every three weeks. I don’t like very short hair, so my barber doesn’t cut off much. I have known him for almost four years, and when I go to him, we always talk a lot. He tells me all his news and I tell him all mine. He meets a lot of interesting people in his shop and he talks to most of them, so he always has a lot of news for me.
Every year my barber goes to France for two weeks for his holidays, and when he comes back to England, he has a lot of interesting news. While he is cutting my hair, he tells me about beautiful cities and quiet little villages, strange food and drinks and many other things. I sit there and listen to the old man with open ears. One minute, my barber’s chair is a seat in a French train, and the next minute it became a chair in a restaurant in Paris. Although my barber is old, he always tries new things. He never says, "I have never eaten this food before, so I am not going to eat it now." H
A. A piece of necklace.
B. A ring.
C. A bunch of flowers.
Karen and Ken Mullin, a young professional couple in Cleveland, own fifty cookbooks and two fully equipped kitchens in their house. Yet they rarely cook their own meals; instead, on their way home from work they usually stop at a supermarket and choose two portions of meat loaf and a container of ready-to-serve potatoes. "My job," says Karen, "is to pour the salad from the bag. "
A half-century after the first TV dinner was born, the food industry is approaching its long-sought dream of relieving people like the Mullins of unpaid labor in the final, and arguably most profitable, step by which a cow gets turned into meat loaf. Increasingly, tables in America’s kitchens are used not for cutting or peeling but for putting takeout food onto plates. For those who even bother with plates. According to Harry Balzar, an influential food-industry researcher, American dinners that came from a takeout counter increased by 24 percent in the past decade. &quo
A. are too busy to cut or peel
B. are too busy to use their tables
C. do not even use their plates
D. do not even use the microwave
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