30. The timid pupils dared not express the_msetve.s at the meeting about the poor services at the school dining hall.

　　A. speak out 　　B. speak of　　 C. speak ill 　　D. speak well

　　Part II Reading Comprehension

　　Directions: The passages below are followed by some multiple-choice questions or short answer questions. For each of the multiple-choice questions there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Please choose the best answer to each of the questions and then mark your answer on ANSWER SHEET Iby drawing a single bar across the corresponding letter in the square bracket. For the short answer questions, please write a short answer to each of the given questions on ANSWER SHEET II. (50 points)

　　Passage 1

　　What makes Americans spend nearly half their food dollars on meals away from home? The answers lie in the way Americans live today. During the first few decades of the twentieth century, canned and other convenience foods freed the family cook from full-time duty at the kitchen range. Then, in the 1940s, work in the wartime defense plants took more women out of the home than ever before, setting the pattern of the working wife and mother. Today about half of the country's married women are employed outside the home. But, unless family members pitch in with food preparation, women are not fully liberated from that chore. Instead, many have become, in a sense, prisoners of the completely cooked conveniencemeals. It's easier to pick up a bucket of fried chicken on the way home from work or take thefamily out for pizzas or burgers than to start opening cans or heating up frozen dinners after along, hard day. Also, the rising divorce rate means that there are more single working parents withchildren to feed. And many young adults and elderly people, as well as unmarried and divorcedmature people, hve alone rather than as part of a family unit and don't want to bother cookingfor one. Fast food is appealing because it is fast, it doesn't requireany dressing up, it offers a"fun" break in the daily routine, and the outlay of money seems small. It can be eaten in thecar —— sometimes picked up at a drive-in window without even getting out —— or on the run.Even if it is brought home to eat, there will never be any dirty dishes to wash because of thehandy disposable wrappings. Children, especially, love fast food because it's finger food, nostruggling with knives and forks, no annoying instructions from adults about table manner.

　　31. Americans enjoy fast food mainly because __

　　A. it can be eaten in the car

　　B. it is much more tasty than home-made food

　　C. one only uses his fingers while eating it

　　D.it is time-saving and convenient

　　32. It can be inferred that children __

　　A. want to have more freedom at table

　　B. never wash dishes after each meal

　　C. are good at using forks and knives while eating

　　D.take eating time as a fun break

　　33. Many Americans are eating out and not cooking at home partially because