阅读理解。
Visitors to Britain are always complaining about English food. But they do not really know what they
are talking about because they rarely get a chance to eat it. Most of the restaurants in large towns have
foreign owners and serve foreign food. When visitors are invited to eat in an English home, their hosts
often feel they must offer them something foreign and exotic (奇特的) .
Those of us who do know English food realize that at its best it can be really very good. On the other
hand it is true to say that it is sometimes terrible. Part of the problem is that we are not really interested in
food-we eat to live, we don't live to eat. So we don't generally spend necessary time and effort needed
to cook really good meals or ready prepared food which only needs heating up before eating.
You can find the best English food in the country away from large towns, where life is slower and
people are not in such a hurry. But more visitors come to London because they are interested in shopping and sightseeing. They do not come because of food, so why should they complain about it?
1. Visitors to Britain are always complaining about English food because _____.
A. they don't often eat English food
B. they know little about English food
C. they only eat English food in English home
2. When English people have guests they prefer to ____ .
A. cook some unusual food
B. offer them some prepared food
C. serve them food they are used to
3. Which of the following statements is right?
A. People don't want to spend time and effort in cooking.
B. People like to cook in a quick easy way.
C. English food is neither good nor terrible.
4. Visitors can find the best English food _____ .
A. in the restaurants in large towns
B. in the country
C. in English homes
5. The conclusion suggests _____.
A. visitors have the rights to complain about English
B. as well as food people come to shopping and sightseeing
C. the criticism (批评) of English food is unfair
