Topic 3 食物容易保存是否改变了人们的生活习惯.docVIP

Topic 3：食物容易保存是否改变了人们的生活习惯？　　Topic3、 Nowadays, food has become easier to prepare. Has this change improved the way people live? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.　　 【参考范文】?????? Nowadays, wherever we turn our gaze, we can see different types of food that are easier to prepare. For instance, we can buy frozen foods in a supermarket and just prepare it in a couple of minutes, whereas before it could have taken us maybe hours to prepare this kind of meals. I would accept that this so-called improvement has changed our lives, but I believe that there are some drawbacks as well. 　　It is true that these kinds of food do not involve hard work to prepare, but food that is easy to prepare generally has some artificial ingredients mixed in it that makes it easy-to-cook. If we take time to read the ingredients, we would definitely come across words like preservatives or?artificial flavorings. It was just a couple of days ago that I came across a newspaper article which stated that someone was poisoned because he ate this type of food. He was hospitalized for almost a month. 　　Not having to cook has also taken the fun out of cooking. Cooking is an art, but in todays world, this is no more true. People are so busy with their work that they just rely on these simple foods. The invention and production of these foods have made people lazy not only for cooking but also for a well family get-together. It was not like former times when families would sit together and eat freshly baked food. Instead, they are getting these artificial things with minimal nutrients in them. 　　Cooking in the yesteryears was much better than todays. People would spend more time in the kitchen, preparing the food in the way that they liked it. This brought families closer together and also contributed to the high quality and nutrition of the food. Granted, people are busier nowadays and do not have as much time as they did in the past, but I believe that people have forgotten th