Topic(题目)：
Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live?Use specific reasons and examples to supportyour answer.
Model Essay(范文)：
The twentieth century has brought with it manyadvances. With those advances, human lives havechanged dramatically. In some ways life is worse, but mostly it is better. Changes in food preparationmethods, for example, have improved our lives greatly.
The convenience of preparing food today is amazing. Even stoves have gotten too slow forus. Microwave cooking is much easier. We can press a few buttons and a meal is completelycooked in just a short time. People used to spend hours preparing an oven-cooked meal, andnow they can use that time for other, better things. Plus, there are all kinds of portable, prepackaged foods we can buy. Heat them in the office microwave, and lunch at work is quickand easy.
Food preparation today allows for more variety. With refrigerators and freezers, we canpreserve a lot of different foods in our homes. Since technology makes cooking so muchfaster, people are willing to make several dishes for even a small meal. Parents are more likelyto let children be picky, now that they can easily heat them up some prepackaged macaroniand cheese on the side. Needless to say, adults living in the same house may have verydifferent eating habits as well. If they don’t want to cook a lot of different dishes, it’s commonnow to eat out at restaurants several times a week.
Healthful eating is also easier than ever now. When people cook, they use new fatsubstitutes and cooking sprays to cut fat and calories. This reduces the risk of heart disease andhigh cholesterol. Additionally, we can buy fruits and vegetable fresh, frozen or canned. They areeasy to prepare, so many of us eat more of those nutritious items daily. A hundred years ago, you couldn’t imagine the process of taking some frozen fruit and ice from the freezer, addingsome low-fat yogurt from a plastic cup and some juice from a can in the refrigerator, andwhipping up a low-fat smoothie in the blender!
Our lifestyle is fast, but people still like good food. What new food preparation technologyhas given us is more choices. Today, we can prepare food that is more convenient, healthier, and of greater variety than ever before in history.
重点单词 全部解释
nutritious[nju:'triʃəs]adj. 有营养的，滋养的
needless['ni:dlis]adj. 不需要的，无用的
refrigerator[ri'fridʒə.reitə]n. 冰箱
convenience[kən'vi:njəns]n. 适宜，便利，便利设施，方便的时间，舒适
convenient[kən'vi:njənt]adj. 方便的，便利的
willing['wiliŋ]adj. 愿意的，心甘情愿的
preserve[pri'zə:v]v. 保存，保留，维护
n. 蜜饯，禁猎区
plastic['plæstik, plɑ:stik]adj. 塑料的，可塑的，造型的，整形的，易受影响的
specific[spi'sifik]adj. 特殊的，明确的，具有特效的
n. 特
variety[və'raiəti]n. 多样，种类，杂耍
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