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阅读理解 My favorite thing about autumn is that I have an excuse to make my mom apple cake again. So, I always thought, once my first child was in primary school, I would enjoy taking part in bake sale fundraisers. Instead, I fear them. I do not imagine that funds for football uniforms appear out of thin air. So I dutifully show up to each bake sale with home-made cakes. Still, bake sales trouble me. They feel like a holdover from a time when many moms didn't work and it was supposed they had a lot of time to bake cookies for children. Women who don't have the time to bake at home and who bring packaged cookies are seen as breaking a great American tradition. What are we selling at bake sales, anyway? Are we advertising our baking skills? Or is the goal to raise money? Children happily buy cupcakes from a store, so why do we care that nobody in a home kitchen worked late into the night to make them? Actually, if you look closely at the economics, they just don't add up. We might spend $10 on ingredients to make 18 cupcakes that sell for $2 each. Think of this $26 as profit supposing that the hours spent shopping and baking and packing things up and taking them to school, and possibly selling and cleaning up afterward, don't have value. Volunteering your time and energy to something important is worth praising. But neither the ingredients nor the work is "free", and many parents can't afford to give them away. This is not an attack against people who love to make banana bread and have the time to do so. But most people do not. Most parents struggle to get even the most basic parenting tasks finished in the limited time between the end of the workday and children's bedtimes. It feels crazy to take time away from helping with homework, or actually making dinner, to spend hours on a fundraiser. （1） What can we learn about the author? A . She loves baking. B . She is active at school. C . She likes home-made food. D . She is against fundraising. （2） Why do bake sales trouble the author? A . She has to buy cakes in stores. B . Home-made baking is a burden. C . Some moms don't attend bake sales. D . Moms are showing off their baking skills. （3） What does the example in Paragraph 5 show? A . Ingredients are too expensive. B . It is uneconomical to bake at home. C . It is hard to raise money at bake sales. D . Ready-made cakes are popular at school. （4） What does the author think of the time involved in baking? A . It is increasing. B . It is rewarding. C . It is highly valued. D . It is unavailable for many. 答案： A B B D

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