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Everybody knows that a favorite food of the Americans is the hamburger.

　　The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast-food restaurant. In these restaurants， people order their food， wait just a few minutes， then when the food is ready they carry it to their tables themselves. They can either eat in the restaurant or take the food out in a plastic box and eat it at home， at work， or in a park. At some restaurants people can drive up beside a window. They order the food， and a worker hands it to them through the window. Then they drive off and eat in their cars or wherever they like.

　　Hamburgers are not the only kind of food that fast-food restaurants serve. Some serve fish or chicken， or sandwiches，and also soft drinks， coffee and so on.

　　Fast food restaurants are very popular because the service is fast and the food is not too expensive. For many people，this is very important. In the United States， about 50 percent of married women with children work outside the home. They are often too busy or too tired to cook dinner for the family at night， and fast-food restaurants are a great help to them.

　　Now there are fast-food restaurants in countries all over the world.

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　　快餐店如今比比皆是。作者主要介紹了美國快餐店的情況，說明了它之所以興旺的兩個原因：既快又便宜。也正因爲這一點，它才風糜全球。文章描述清楚、細膩，語言簡潔而有變化。

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　　快餐店

　　每個人都知道美國人最喜歡的喫的是漢堡包。

　　買漢堡包時，人們最樂意去的地方是快餐店。在這些店裡，人們要了喫的，衹需稍等片刻，儅食物做好時，顧客可以自己耑到餐桌上。他們既可以在快餐店喫，也可以用塑料盒將飯帶廻家裡喫，或在公園喫。有些快餐店還爲司機提供方便。司機可以把車開到窗戶旁邊，工作人員可以將他們要的食物從窗口遞出去。然後他們將車開走，想在哪幾喫，就在哪兒喫。

　　快餐店不僅供應漢堡包。還供應魚、雞、三明治、軟飲料、咖啡等等。

　　快餐店之所以受歡迎，就因它的速度快，而且也不太貴。對大多數人來說，這很重要。在美國，50％的已婚婦女都在外工作。她們太忙，也太累，不能爲家人做飯，而快餐店恰好幫了他們的大忙。

　　現在快餐店已遍及全世界。