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show you how to shop on the Inter give you some information about Granny Look introduce some goods will fail to find any information at Christmas when you need . cards Advent Calendars gifts for theatres B Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged by celebrity (名人 ) chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver, according to a report from Oxford University. The effect of the celebrity role models, who have given cooking a more manly picture, has bined with a more general drive towards sexual equality and men now spend more than twice the amount of time preparing meals than they did in 1961. According to the research by Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961. said, “The man in the kitchen i s part of a much wider social has been 40 years of sexual equality, but there is another 40 years probably to e.” Women, who a generation ago spent nearly two hours a day cooking, now spend just one hour and seven minutes— a great fall, but they still spend far more time in the kitchen than men. Some experts have named these men in aprons as “Gastrosexuals (men using cooking skills to impress friends)” , who have been inspired to pick up a kitchen knife by the success of Ramsay, Oliver as well as other male celebrity chefs such as Hugh Fearnley- Whittingstall, Marco Pierre White and Keith Floyd. “I was married in my father came to visit me a few weeks later , I was wearing an apron when I opened the laughed, ” said .“That would never happen now.” Two- thirds of adults say that they e together to share at least three times a week , even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room pointed out that the family meal was now rarely eaten by all of its members around a table— with many “family meals” in fact taken on the sofa in the sitting room, and shared by family members.“The family meal has changed a lot, and few of us eat— as I did when I was a child— at least two meals a day together as a it has survived in a different format.” is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before? improvement of cooks39。status. influence of popular female chefs. change of female39。s view on cooking. development of sexual equality campaign. does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking? spend more time cooking than women nowadays. spend much less time on cooking than before. will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women. is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking pared with 1961. did see the family meal according to the passage? has bee a thing of the past. is very different from what it used to be. shouldn39。t be advocated in modern times. is beneficial to the stability of the family. is the best title for the passage? Changes of Family Meals between Men and Women into a New Trend for Men — a Thing of the Past for Women C New Yorkers and visitors to the Big Apple will get to ring in the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year in the ., in style with a fireworks display on the Hudson River set to music written by Academy Awardwinning poser Tan Dun. The display is part of the second annual “Happy Chinese New Year: Fantastic Art China” festival held in New York on February 5 10, 2020. The China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), the Cultural Institute and the Cultural Associate of the Committee of 100 announced this year’s events on November 18 at a press conference at the Lincoln Center. The “Fantastic Art China” festival will feature a larger and more diverse series of artistic and cultural events across New York’s top cultural venues ( 地點(diǎn) ) and landmarks, including the Lincoln Center, Empire State Building and Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. This year’s theme focuses on exploring the plicated relationship between sound and image, said Professor Yu Ding from CAFA, who is also president of Fantastic Art China and in charge of the festival’s design. Lunar New Year, which celebrates the “Year of the Monkey” in 2020, is an opportunity to bring China’s modern art to mainstream America, and the festival serves as an innovative approach to establishing cultural exchange between China and New York City, Yu said. UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador Tan Dun’s music is a new edition that will be featured at several venues, including a major art exhibition at the Javits Center, events at the Lincoln Center and the fireworks display on the Hudson, which will take place on the evening of February 6. Five barges (游艇 ) on the river will launch the fireworks designed by CAFA that will tell a story about celebration and conservation. “We Chinese are fond of nature, so the best way to celebrate the Lunar New Year is to salute with the sounds of nature, such as sounds of water, stone and bamboo,” said Tan Dun at the press conference, “And it will be fun t o use the music of water during the firework display.” In addition to the fireworks, a special lighting show at the Empire State Building will illuminate New York City during the holiday. Chinese New Year is being recognized as a public school holiday for the first time in New York. Children from the National Dance Institute, which represents 75 schools, will perform traditional Chinese dances at the Lincoln Center and the Javits Center. And, in celebration of the “Year of the Monkey” events will feature a conservation message about the endangered golden monkey in China. 28. The theme of this year’s celebration is centered on ________. A. diversity of Chinese traditional fest