[单选题]第二部分:阅读选择(第11~15题,每题2分。共10分)阅读下面短文。请从短文后所给各题的4个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出1个最佳选项。
A材料题回答11-15题The Sandwich American lunch hour is usually from noon until one o'clock or from one until two. People at work or school rarely go home for lunch. Instead, many bring lunch with them from home. For this purpose they need a meal that is small, portable, does not require constant refrigeration. The sandwich meets all these three require ments. When it comes to talking about the sandwich, Americans can offer you a long list of its names:a submarine sandwich, a hero, a hoagie a grinder, a pool boy, a torpedo, a club sandwich an open sandwich. Whatever you call it this concoction(混合)of cold cuts in a roll is as American as the hot dog or the apple pie. In attempting to track down its origin, it is found that several U. S. cities claim to be its birthplace New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, Chester. A strong possibility is the simultaneous, independent invention of all these cities, Whatever it started, the sandwich was clearly an innova tion of the Italian immigrants. In their old country, Italian workershad gone home at midday for their lunch;since U. S. factory owners frowned on this practice, they adopted the roll as a kind of lunch box put their meat cheese within. In this way, an inexpensive yet filling meal could be carried to the workplace without damage. Hence we can see the sandwich as a compromise between the Old World attachment to sausages cheese, the need in the American work-day context. The sandwich remained largely a working-class item from its beginning in the 1580s. Then during the Depression the financially suffered middle class realized its value as an economical meal transformed it into an American staple(生活必需品)11. The passage offers a long list of the sandwich's names to give readers an impression that_______.( ) 查看材料A.different people prefer different sandwiches
Bthe sandwich is very popular among Americans
Cthe sandwich has some funny interesting names
DAmericans frequently talk about the sandwich
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[解析]本文第二段开头,作者列出了一长串各种三明治的名字,可以看出三明治的Vl味、制作方法花样百出。因此也可知,美国人对其的喜爱。答案为B。