Question

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

In seventeenth-century colonial North America, all day-to-day cooking was done in the fireplace. By and large, fireplaces were planned for cooking as well as for warmth. Those in the Northeast were usually four or five feet high, and in the South, they were often high enough for a person to walk into. A heavy timber called the mantel tree was used as a lintel to support the stonework above the fireplace opening. This timber might be scorched occasionally, but it was far enough in front of the rising column of heat to be safe from catching fire.

Two ledges were built across from each other on the inside of the chimney. On these rested the ends of a "lug pole" from which pots were suspended when cooking. Wood from a freshly cut tree was used for the lug pole, so it would resist heat, but it had to be replaced frequently because it dried out and charred, and was thus weakened. Sometimes the pole broke and the dinner fell into the fire. When iron became easier to obtain, it was used instead of wood for lug poles, and later fireplaces had pivoting metal rods to hang pots from.

Beside the fireplace and built as part of it was the oven. It was made like a small, secondary fireplace with a flue leading into the main chimney to draw out smoke. Sometimes the door of the oven faced the room, but most ovens were built with the opening facing into the fireplace. On baking days (usually once or twice a week) a roaring fire of "oven wood," consisting of brown maple sticks, was maintained in the oven until its walls were extremely hot. The embers were later removed, bread dough was put into the oven, and the oven was sealed shut until the bread was fully baked.

Not all baking was done in a big oven, however. Also used was an iron "bake kettle," which looked like a stewpot on legs and which had an iron lid. This is said to have worked well when it was placed in the fireplace, surrounded by glowing wood embers, with more embers piled on its lid

Which of the following aspects of domestic life in colonial North America does the passage mainly discuss? 

A. the use of iron kettles in a typical kitchen 

B. methods of baking bread 

C. fireplace cooking 

D. the types of wood used in preparing meals

Answer 1

Chọn A

Kiến thức: Đọc hiểu

Giải thích:

Những khía cạnh nào sau đây của đời sống gia đình ở Bắc Mỹ thuộc địa mà đoạn văn thảo luận chủ yếu?

  A. việc sử dụng ấm sắt trong bếp phổ biến

  B. phương pháp nướng bánh mì

  C. nấu ăn lò sưởi

  D. các loại gỗ được sử dụng trong việc chuẩn bị bữa ăn

Thông tin: When iron became easier to obtain, it was used instead of wood for lug poles, and later fireplaces had pivoting metal rods to hang pots from… Also used was an iron "bake kettle," which looked like a stewpot on legs and which had an iron lid.

Tạm dịch: Khi sắt trở nên dễ kiếm hơn, nó được sử dụng thay vì gỗ để làm tai cột, và lò sưởi sau đó có các thanh kim loại xoay để treo nồi… Cũng được sử dụng là một "ấm đun nước" bằng sắt, trông giống như một cái xoong có chân và có nắp sắt