Chef Xiang Chunqin lowered the fire on the stove where she was cooking her Cantonese meal. She added all the necessary ingredients, including the seafood, shrimp. She quickly lowered the fire and turned toward a phone camera as hundreds of people watched her online. "It ruins the dish if you burn the breadcrumbs, "She advised her live-stream video watchers.
Many people in China are restricted to their homes in the effort to stop the spread of coronavirus. Millions of them are finding a new interest in cooking. People watching television and online cooking shows are learning how to make Chinese and Western foods. They are also pushing up the sale of special cookware on online markets, because cooking tools matter to some recipes. Downloads of the top five recipe apps doubled in February, said research company Sensor Tower, i.e. more than 2 million downloads. The Chinese video streaming company Billibilli said it has had more than 580 million views of its cooking videos in the two months since the coronavirus began to spread in China.
Another online cooking show producer DayDayCook told reporters its number of new users increased 200 percent from January to February. A recipe for bean curd and shrimp received the most views. We have never gained new users with such speed since we launched the service in 2012," said founder and leader Tan Xiaoyong.
Many new home cooks are young people living in cities, say industry leaders. This group is used to eating in restaurants or getting food delivery. Now these people are cooking at home.Huang Yifeng, is a 28-year-old who works in Beijing, the capital. She was among those trapped at home in February. She says she spent a lot of time online, learning how to make bread and other foods. Chef Xiang explained that many of her online viewers expressed interest in discussing more than just food. "In the past, users were only interested in learning cooking tricks, but now we talk about all kinds of subjects."
【小题1】What does the underlined word in the second paragraph probably refer to?| A．pans and pots | B．cooks and viewers |
| C．salt and oil | D．books and recipes |
| A．Bilibili has more viewers than DayDayCook after the coronavirus broke out. |
| B．The recipe for bean curd and shrimp had the most purchasers. |
| C．People were only interested in learning cooking tricks when restricted to their homes. |
| D．In February, much more people than before had access to the trending cooking apps. |
| A．To provide readers with an example of how hot online cooking apps have become. |
| B．To serve as the background information of the passage. |
| C．To show it's easy to do business during the coronavirus outbreak. |
| D．To advertise the app DayDayCook. |
| A．The reason why people are used to eating in restaurants or getting food delivery. |
| B．The number of DayDayCook's new users from January to February. |
| C．The fact that western food is getting increasingly popular. |
| D．The trend of learning cooking tricks when trapped at home. |
