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第 44 至 47 題為題組    American cooking programs have taught audiences, changed audiences, and changed with audiencesfrom generation to generation. In October 1926, the U.S. Department of Agriculture created this genre’sfirst official representative, a fictional radio host named Aunt Sammy. Over the airwaves, she educatedhomemakers on home economics and doled out advice on all kinds of matters, but it was mostly the cookingrecipes that got listeners’ attention. The show provided a channel for transmitting culinary advice andbrought about a national exchange of recipes.    Cooking shows transitioned to television in the 1940s, and in the 1950s were often presented by a cooksystematically explaining instructions on how to prepare dishes from start to finish. These programs werebroadcast during the day and aimed at middle-class women whose mindset leaned toward convenient foodsfor busy families. Poppy Cannon, for example, was a popular writer of The Can-Opener Cookbook. Sheappeared on various television shows, using canned foods to demonstrate how to cook quickly and easily.    Throughout the sixties and seventies, a few chef-oriented shows redefined the genre as an exhibitionof haute European cuisine by celebrity gourmet experts. This elite cultural aura then gave way to variouscooking styles from around the world. An example of such change can be seen in Martin Yan’s 1982 “YanCan Cook” series, which demonstrated Chinese cuisine cooking with the catchphrase, “If Yan can cook,you can too!” By the 1990s, these cooking shows ranged from high-culture to health-conscious cuisine,with chefs’ personalities and entertainment value being two keys to successful productions.    At the beginning of the 21st century, new cooking shows emerged to satisfy celeb-hungry, reality-crazedaudiences. In this new millennium of out-of-studio shows and chef competition reality shows, chefs havebecome celebrities whose fame rivals that of rock stars. Audiences of these shows tend to be people whoare interested in food and enjoy watching people cook rather than those who want to do the cookingthemselves, leaving the age-old emphasis on following recipes outmoded.
44. Which of the following is closest in meaning to “haute” in the third paragraph?
(A) Coarse.
(B) Civilian.
(C) Various.
(D) High-class.

參考答案

答案：D
難度：適中0.521739
統計：A(1),B(10),C(11),D(24),E(0)

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