7.The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and for the environment.Those findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tilman is a professor at the University of Minnesota.In the study,he examined information from 100nations to show what people ate and how diet affected health.Mr.Tilman noted a movement beginning in the 1960s.He found that as nations industrialized(工業(yè)化),population increased and earnings rose.More people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet.The Western diet is high in sugar,fat,oil and meat.By eating these foods,people began to get fatter and sicker.
"The food,let us say,in the 15richest nations of the world,right now contains about 400or 500extra calories(熱量) a day that are eaten beyond what people need,and that leads people to gain weight."
David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for diseases like diabetes,heart disease and some cancers.Diabetes is shooting to very high rates in the United States and across Europe.Heart disease is a major cause of death in the Western nations.Unfortunately when people become industrialized,if they adopt this Western diet,they are going to have these same health problems.
A diet bad for human beings,it seems,is also bad for the environment.As the world's population grows,experts say more forests and areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for raising cattle.These areas will be needed to meet the increasing demand for food.
Mr.Tilman calls the link between diet,the environment and human health,"a dilemma",a situation where it is very difficult to decide what to do.He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind.
32.Why did people get fatter in the 1960s?A
A.They ate foods high in calories.
B.They adopted a western lifestyle.
C.They set aside little time for exercise.
D.They had a better life and became lazier.
33.According to the text,overweight people may suffer the following diseases EXCEPTD.
A.diabetes
B.heart disease
C.cancers
D.skin disease
34.What can we infer from Paragraph 5?C
A.The world's population will grow faster than ever.
B.People won't care about the environment.
C.There will be fewer and fewer forests.
D.Raising cattle will be the most moneymaking business.
35.What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?D
A.To tell people effective ways to keep healthy.
B.To draw people's attention to environmental protection.
C.To show the problems industrialized nations are facing.
D.To call on people to give up the Western diet.
分析 隨著全球化進程進一步加快,西方的飲食習(xí)慣也層層逼近世界的每一個角落,它是否對我們的飲食健康或者環(huán)境造成影響呢?這篇文章就做了詳細的介紹.
解答 32.A.細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第二段:The Western diet is high in sugar,fat,oil and meat.By eating these foods,people began to get fatter and sicker可知20世紀60年代的人們吃高熱量的食物導(dǎo)致他們變胖;故選A.
33.D.細節(jié)理解題.根據(jù)第四段:David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for diseases like diabetes,heart disease and some cancers可知超重的人可能患有糖尿病,癌癥和心臟;故選D.
34.C.推理判斷題.根據(jù)第五段:As the world's population grows,experts say more forests and areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for raising cattle可知森林將會越來越少;故選C.
35.D.寫作意圖題.綜合全文,尤其是根據(jù)文章最后一段的最后一句可知,西方飲食有害健康,不利于環(huán)境,故作者是想通過該文讓人們警惕西方飲食帶來的危害,讓讀者放棄西方飲食;故選D.
點評 考察學(xué)生的細節(jié)理解和推理判斷能力,做細節(jié)理解題時一定要找到文章中的原句,和題干進行比較,再做出正確的選擇.在做推理判斷題不要以個人的主觀想象代替文章的事實,要根據(jù)文章事實進行合乎邏輯的推理判斷.