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Have you ever wondered what you would look like if you were an Asian, Middle Eastern, black, white or Indian person? By stepping into the Human Race Machine, you can find out.When you sit inside it, the machine creates a digital image （数字影像） of your face.After pushing certain buttons, the machine uses various photos of people of a certain ethnic group mixed with your own facial features.From this, it can come up with an image showing how you would look as a member of a different race.
The machine is part of a traveling retrospective （回顾展） called “ Seeing and Believing: The Art of Nancy Burson.” Burson is a famous American photographer and inventor.The show of 100 photos and multimedia works was on view at the Grey ArtGallery in New York on April 20.
“ It is a strange feeling, just like stepping into someone else’s skin.” Said Hathy Zajchenko, a museum visitor from Pennsylvania, US.As soon as she sat down, she tried out a range of ethnic groups.“ The Middle Eastern image worked pretty well for me,” she said with a smile.
According to Burson, the machine is a prayer for unity.It is about seeing through differences to find the things we all share in common.Burson added the database （资料库） of Middle Eastern faces, both Arab and Jewish, after the terrorist attacks （恐怖袭击） on September 11.“ I have always wanted to allow people to see differently.I am a photographer.I am recording the unseen, because what we can not see is so much more interesting than what we can see,” Burson said.
For those who missed the show, the Human Race machine will be on view at the New York Hall of Science in the Queens district full-time as of June.
28.The Human Race Machine can ____ .
A.let people step into someone else’s skin
B.create a digital image of your face and change it
C.turn your pray into reality
D.tell you what you would look like if you were a member of another ethnic group
29.The phrase “ come up with” in the first paragraph means ____.
A.produce B.get nearer C.come out D.change
30.The sentence “ The machine is a pray for unity” means _____ .
A.the Human Race machine can unite the facial feather of a different ethnic group with your own
B.one can pray before the machine
C.the machine shows that no matter what race people are , there are some things we all have in common
D.if you want, the machine can change your face
31.Burson added the database of Middle Eastern faces after the September 11 attack because ____.
A.she wanted to show people what terrorists look like
B.she wanted to let people see the foreign people
C.she wanted to be famous as a photographer
D.she wanted to record what people can not see
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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 combined 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 Prof.Jonatahn 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.
Prof.Gershuny said, “The man in the kitchen is part of a much wider social trend.There has been 40 years of sexual equality, but there is another 40 years probably to come.”
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 1974.When my father came to visit me a few weeks later, I was wearing an apron when I opened the door.He laughed,” said Prof.Gershuny.“That would never happen now.”
Two-thirds of adults say that they come together to share at least three times a week, even if it is not necessarily around a kitchen or dining room table.Prof.Gershuny 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 family.But it has survived in a different format.”
32.What is one reason behind the trend that men spend more time cooking than before?
A.The development of sexual equality campaign. B.The improvement of cooks’ status.
C.The change of female’s view on cooking. D.The influence of popular female chefs.
33.What does the author think about the time men and women spend on cooking?
A.Men spend more time cooking than women nowadays.
B.It will take 40 years before men spend more time at the stove than women.
C.There is a sharp decline in the time men spend on cooking compared with 1961.
D.Women spend much less time on cooking than before.
34.How did Prof.Gershuny see the family meal according to the passage?
A.It is very different from what it used to be. B.It is beneficial to the stability of the family.
C.It shouldn’t be advocated in modern times. D.It has become a thing of the past.
35.Which is the best title for the passage?
A.The Changes of Family Meals B.Equality between Men and Women
C.Cooking into a New Trend for Men D.Cooking—a Thing of the Past for Women
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