Question

【題目】Most drinks stating that they are fruitflavored (水果味道的) contain no fruit at all, while most of the rest contain only a small quantity of fruit, according to a study carried by the British Food Commission.

“Shoppers need to check the labels (標(biāo)簽) before buying drinks, though sometimes the actual content can be nonexistent，” said Food Commission spokesperson Ian Tokelove. “Food production is highly competitive. __【1】__ It will increase profits, and consumers won't always realize they are being tricked.”

Flavorings are focused on the flavors of natural food products such as fruits, meats and vegetables, or creating flavor for food products that do not have the desired flavors. Researchers analyzed the contents of 28 strawberryflavored products sold in stores. __【2】__ Of the 11 products that did contain strawberries, five of them contained less than one percent real fruit. In addition, each juice box contained nearly eight teaspoons of sugar.

__【3】__ Let's take jam as an example. Some strawberryflavored jam was labeled as containing no artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners, but it contained absolutely no strawberries at all.

__【4】__ Consumers have the rights to know clearly about what they have bought. Under current UK law, food packages do not have to distinguish between natural and artificial flavoring. “Describing a product as strawberry flavor and covering the surface of the packet with pictures of strawberries is misleading. __【5】__ Unfortunately, it is also legal and widespread,” Tokelove said. “It's time to take measures to protect the consumers' rights.”

A. The products which contain real fruit are popular with people.

B. Even products advertised as more natural often contained no fruit.

C. They found that about 60 percent of them didn't contain any fruit at all.

D. If companies can cut their costs by using flavoring, they are likely to do so.

E. It is important and necessary to demand a small amount of flavoring in the products.

F. Actually the product contains just a tiny percentage of strawberry or even no fruit at all.

G. The Food Commission suggested all flavors used in a product should be listed on the packaging.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】D

【2】C

【3】B

【4】G

【5】F

【解析】

試題分析：文章主要講述了食品添加劑的問(wèn)題。被商家稱為“含有水果成分”、“純天然”的食品，實(shí)際上，所含的水果成分很少，甚至一點(diǎn)也沒(méi)有，使用的全是添加劑和色素。

【1】It will increase profits, and consumers won't always realize they are being tricked.（因?yàn)椋┻@樣做會(huì)增加利潤(rùn)，消費(fèi)者也不會(huì)意識(shí)到自己被欺騙了。根據(jù)下一段的“Flavorings are focused on the flavors of natural food products”可知，D“如果商家通過(guò)使用調(diào)味品來(lái)降低成本，他們很有可能會(huì)這么做”符合題意，故選D。

【2】根據(jù)“Researchers analyzed the contents of 28 strawberryflavored products sold in stores. Of the 11 products that did contain strawberries, five of them contained less than one percent real fruit.”可知，28種草莓味的產(chǎn)品中，只有11種含有少量的草莓，C“60%的產(chǎn)品都不含任何水果成分”符合題意，故選C。

【3】根據(jù)“Let's take jam as an example. Some strawberryflavored jam was labeled as containing no artificial colors, flavors, or sweeteners, but it contained absolutely no strawberries at all.”可知，以口香糖為例，一些標(biāo)有不含任何人工顏料、添加劑和糖精的草莓味口香糖竟不含草莓成分。即使標(biāo)有不含人工成分、更天然的產(chǎn)品也不含水果成分。故選B。

【4】Consumers have the rights to know clearly about what they have bought.消費(fèi)者有知情權(quán)，他們有權(quán)知道所買商品里面都含有什么，G“食品委員會(huì)建議把所使用的添加劑都標(biāo)在包裝上”符合題意，故選G。

【5】Describing a product as strawberry flavor and covering the surface of the packet with pictures of strawberries is misleading.標(biāo)榜草莓口味的產(chǎn)品，并在產(chǎn)品包裝上貼上草莓圖案的行為是在誤導(dǎo)消費(fèi)者。F“實(shí)際上，這個(gè)產(chǎn)品僅含有少量的草莓成分，甚至一點(diǎn)草莓成分也沒(méi)有”符合題意，故選F。