英語問題
(1)The problem is, real food is cooked by real people — you! — and real people are cooking less than ever before. We know why people don’t cook, or at least we think we do: they’re busy. They find convenience foods more available than foods they cook themselves They wrongly believe that ready-to-eat foods are less expensive than those they cook themselves. They live in so-called food deserts and lack access to real food. In addition, they were never taught to cook by their parents.
(2)Yet Americans watch 35 hours of television a week, according to recent survey. Increasing amounts of that time are spent watching other people cook. And although there certainly are urban and rural pockets where people have little access to fresh food, about 90 percent of American households own cars, and anyone who can drive to McDonald’s can drive to a supermarket.
(3)But perhaps most important, three basic recipes can get anyone into the kitchen and beyond the convenience foods in a few days. One could set off a heated argument with a question like, “What are the three best basic recipes?” but I suggegt these: a stir-fry, a chopped salad, and the basic combination of rice and lentils, all of which are easy enough to learn in one lesson. “Lessons” might be called “recipes,” and need no “teacher” beyond the written word. They are made from actual food. The salad requires no cooking; the stir-fry is lightning fast; the rice-and-lentils, though cooked more slowly, requires minimal attention.
(4)These recipes offer other benefits. They’re healthy and environmentally friendly. They’ve sustained scores of generations of societies worldwide, using traditional farming methods and producing little negative impact on the earth. Almost without exception, your ancestors relied on something like one or more of these dishes.
(5)There is one notable thing these recipes are not: magic. You cannot produce them without having a functioning kitchen (a sink, a refrigerator and a stove will do it), some minimal equipment, including a pot, a flying pan, a bowl, a couple of knives and a cutting board, and the ability and money to stock a pantry. These requirements cannot be met by everyone, but they can be met by far more people than those who cooked dinner last night.
(6)It’s worth noting, moreover, that the stir-fly and the rice-and-lentils can be made entirely from the pantry, if you allow for the fact that frozen vegetables are a completely acceptable substitute for “fresh”, especially in winter, when “fresh” may mean “flown in from Peru.”
(7)Given ingredients, a kitchen and equipment, all that is left is some time, and with a well-stocked pantry, that time can be about the same as driving to McDonald's and back. Make these three things mentioned above, and you're a cook. By becoming a cook, you can leave convenience foods behind, creating more healthful, less expensive and better-tasting food that requires less energy, water and land per calorie. Not a bad result for us — or the planet.
【設問】
・1段落2文目内doの内容
アbelieve イcook ウfind エknow オlive
・2段落3文目内pocketsの意味
アcabinets イhalls ウdestinations エplaces オpurses
・3段落2文目内whichの内容
アa stir-fry, a chopped sarad, and the basic combination of rice and lentils イthe convenience foods ウthe written word エa heated argument
・5段落3文目内metと同じ意味のもの
アHe met his family at the airport. イThey fell in love when his eyes met hers. ウHe always met misfortune with a smile. エThis new product mem our customers' needs.
長文の原文はこちらです。
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/weekinreview/02bittman.html?src=me&ref=homepage&_r=1&
お礼
再度の詳しい注釈有り難うございます。 成る程、本来の意味は「全否定=断言」ですが、 「そこまで断定することもないだろう」の微妙な ニュアンスまで含めると、個人的には Not all local food (or,speciality) is as tasty as they say. 位で妥協しておきます、、、そうですね、「so」はもう必要有りませんね。 これだと、難しい単語も避けていて、これを使うことにします。 助かりました。