第三篇 Obesity(肥胖) in the Western World
Obesity is rapidly becoming a new scourge of the western world, delegates agreed at the 11th European Conference on the issue in Vienna Wednesday to Saturday. According to statements before the opening of the conference —— of 2,000 specialists from more than 50 countries 一 1. 2 billion people worldwide are overweight, and 250 million are obese.
Professor Bernhard Ludvik of Vienna General Hospital said，“ Obesity is a chronic illness. In Germany，20 per cent of the people are already affected，but in Japan only one per cent. ” But he said that there was hope for sufferers thanks to the new scientific discoveries and medication.
Professor Friedrich Hopichler of Salzberg said, "We are living in the new age (but) with the metabolism(新陈代谢) of a stone-age man" “I have just been to the United States. It is really terrible. A pizza shop is springing up on every comer. We have been overrun by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization. ”
Many of the experts stressed that obesity was a potential killer. Hopichler said, “Eighty percent of all diabetics are obese，also fifty per cent of all patients with high blood pressure and fifty per cent with adipose(脂肪的) tissue complaints. ” "Ten per ce医.学全.在.线网站www.med126.comnt more weight means thirteen per cent more risk of heart disease. Reducing one's weight by ten per cent leads to thirteen per cent lower blood pressure. ”
Another expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their financing of preventive programs. "Though the health insurance pays for surgery (such as reducing the size of the stomach) when the body-mass index is more than 40. That is equivalent to a weight of 116 kilograms for a height of 1.70 meters. One should start earlier. ”
Ludvik said that prevention should begin in school. “ Child obesity (fat deposits) correlates(与……相关) with the time which children spend in front of TV sets. ”
The consequences were only apparent later on. No more than fifteen per cent of obese people lived to the average life expectancy for their population group.
41.Which of the following is true about obesi
A. People in Japan needn’t worry about obesity.
B. Obesity is a disease that lasts for a long time.
C.20% of the people in the world are overweight.
D.Obesity should be cured with new medication
42. Which of the following does Prof. Friendrich Hopichler probably agree?
A. Diabetes is mainly caused by obesity.
B. 50% of patients with high blood pressure complained about obesity.
C. The fast food supplied in American pizza shops is tasteless.
D. The more one weights, the more likely he is to suffer from heart disease.
答案：D
43.Hermann Toplak suggested that more money should be spent on_______.
A. health insurance
B. preventive programs
C. state health services
D. obesity-related surgeries
答案：B
44.Which of the following is most often accompanied by obesity?
A. Diabetes
B. High blood pressure
C. Stomachache
D. Adipose tissue complaints
答案：A
45.”The consequences” in the last paragraph result from people_____.
A. reducing their weight
B. eating fast food
C. getting obese
D. spending too much time in front of TV sets
答案：C
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The Day a Language Died
When Carios Westez died at the age of 76. a language died, too. Westez, more commonly known as Red Thunder Cloud, was the last speaker of the Native American language. Catawba. Anyone who wants to hear the songs of the Catawba can contact the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., where, back in the 1940s, Red Thunder Cloud recorded a series of songs for future generations. __________(46)They are all that is left of the Catawba language. The language that people used to speak is gone forever.
We are all aware of the damage that modern industry can do to the world’s ecology(生态).However, few people are aware of the impact widely医.学全.在.线网站www.med126.com spoken languages have on other languages and ways of life. English has spread all over the world. Chinese, Spanish, Russian, and Hindi have become powerful languages. As well, ___________(47).When this happens, hundreds of languages that are spoken by only a few die out.
Scholars believe there are about 6,000 languages around the world, but more than half of them could die out within the next 100 years. There are many examples, Araki is a native language of the island of Vanuatu, located in the Pacific Ocean. It is spoken by only a few older adults，so like Catawba，Araki will soon disappear. Many languages of Ethiopia will have the same fate because each one has only a few speakers. _________(48)In the Americas, 100 languages, each of which has fewer than 300 speakers, also are dying out.
Red Thunder Cloud was one of the first to recognize the threat of language death and to try to do something about it. He was not actually born into the Catawba tribe, and the language was not his mother tongue. _________(49). The songs he sang for the Smithsonian Institution helped to make Native American music popular. Now he is gone, and the language is dead.
What does it mean when a language disappears? When a plant or insect or animal species dies, it is easy to understand what we’ve been lost and to appreciate what this means for the balance of the natural word. However, language is only a product of the mind. To be the last remaining speaker of a language，like Red Thunder Cloud，must be a lonely destiny, almost as strange and terrible as being the last surviving member of a dying species. ____________(50)
A. As these language become more powerful. their use as tools of business and culture increase.
B. For the rest of us, when a language dies, we lose the possibility of a unique way of seeing and describing the world.
C . These language don’t have many native speakers.
D . However，he was a frequent visitor to the Catawba reservation in South Carcinoma where he learned the language.www.med126.com
E . Papua New Guinea is an extremely rich source of different languages，but more than 100 of them are in danger of extinction(灭绝).
F . Some people might want to try to learn some of these songs by heart.
答案：
46、F ;47、A ;48、C;49、D;50、B
