What might the author continu…——2023 高考英语第 30 题答案解析

【答案】28. A 29. D 30. D 31. B
【解析】
【导语】本篇是一篇说明文，介绍英国人在英国烹饪节目的影响下改变对烹饪的看法，并尝试新的烹饪习
惯。
【28 题详解】
细节理解题。根据第一段的“ What comes into your mind when you think of British food? Probably fish and
chips, or a Sunday dinner of meat and two vegetables. But is British food really so uninteresting?”（当你想到英国
食物时，你会想到什么？你可能想到的是炸鱼薯条，或是一肉两菜的周日晚餐。但是，英国食物真的如此
无趣吗？）可知，提及英国食物，大家往往只是想到炸鱼薯条和周日烤肉，所以人们通常会觉得英国食物
平平无奇。故选 A 项。
【29 题详解】

推理判断题。根据第二段的“ It’s thanks to these TV chefs rather than any advertising campaign that Britons are
turning away from meat-and-two-veg and ready-made meals and becoming more adventurous in their cooking
habits.”（正是由于电视上的这些大厨，而不是凭借广告宣传活动，英国人正在远离“一肉两菜”和速食
餐，而变得更加愿意探索新的烹饪习惯。 ）和“It seems that TV programmes have helped change what people
think about cooking.”（似乎电视节目帮助改变了人们对烹饪的看法。 ）可知，英国的烹饪节目能够改变英国
人对烹饪的看法，尝试从传统的英式饮食走出来，尝试新的烹饪习惯，由此推知英国的烹饪节目具有很大
的影响力。故选 D 项。
【30 题详解】
细节理解题。根据第三段的“ Almost one third say they now use a wider variety of ingredients (配料) than they
used to, and just under 1 in 4 say they now buy better quality ingredients than before.”（几乎三分之一的人表示
他们现在使用的配料比以前更多，将近四分之一的人表示他们现在购买的配料质量比以前更好。 ）可知，
三分之一左右的人，也就是 33%左右的人，使用的配料比以前更多。故选 D 项。
【31 题详解】
推理判断题。根据第三段的最后一句“ With an increasing number of male chefs on TV, it’s no longer “uncool”
for boys to like cooking.”（随着电视上出现越来越多男性厨师，男孩子喜欢烹饪不再是一件“不酷”的事
了。 ）可知，接下来，文章应该具体介绍电视上的男性厨师，从而与上文形成语义连贯。故选B 项。
D
If you want to tell the history of the whole world, a history that does not privilege one part of humanity, you
cannot do it through texts alone, because only some of the world has ever had texts, while most of the world, for
most of the time, has not. Writing is one of humanity’s later achievements, and until fairly recently even many
literate (有文字的) societies recorded their concerns not only in writing but in things.
Ideally a history would bring together texts and objects, and some chapters of this book are able to do just that,
but in many cases we simply can’t. The clearest example of this between literate and non-literate history is perhaps
the first conflict, at Botany Bay, between Captain Cook’s voyage and the Australian Aboriginals. From the English
side, we have scientific reports and the captain’s record of that terrible day. From the Australian side, we have only
a wooden shield (盾) dropped by a man in flight after his first experience of gunshot. If we want to reconstruct
what was actually going on that day, the shield must be questioned and interpreted as deeply and strictly as the
written reports.
In addition to the problem of miscomprehension from both sides, there are victories accidentally or
deliberately twisted, especially when only the victors know how to write. Those who are on the losing side often
have only their things to tell their stories. The Caribbean Taino, the Australian Aboriginals, the African people of

Benin and the Incas, all of whom appear in this book, can speak to us now of their past achievements most
powerfully through the objects they made: a history told through things gives them back a voice. When we consider
contact (联系) between literate and non-literate societies such as these, all our first-hand accounts are necessarily
twisted, only one half of a dialogue. If we are to find the other half of that conversation, we have to read not just the
texts, but the objects.