第四部分：閱讀理解（第31~45題，每題3分，共45分）

下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道題。請根據短文內容，為每題確定1個最佳選項

第一篇

Eat healthy

"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club1!’’ Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, it’s accompanied by an appeal： “Just think about those starving orphans in Africa!2" Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites3. Instead of staying "clean the plate", perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.

According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government, according to a USA Today story.4 Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little.

Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University; told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began (o grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waistline began to expand.

Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparently, some customers are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe restaurants serve portions that are too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed. But a closer look at the survey indicates that many Americans who can’t afford fine dining still prefer large portions. Seventy percent of those earning at least $150,000 per year prefer smaller portions; but only 45 percent of those earning less than $25,000 want smaller.

It’s not that working class Americans don’t want to eat healthy. It’s just that, "after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal.5 They live frompaycheck to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next year’s Christmas presents.

31、Parents in the United States tend to ask their children

A.to save food for tomorrow

B.to wash the dishes clean

C.not to waste food at meals

D.not to eat too much at meals

32、American restaurants serve large portions because Americans

A.value quantity

B.have big bellies

C.want enough nutrition

D.are mostly rich

33、what  happened  in America in the 1970S?

A.The restaurants began to serve smaller portions

B.Health experts advised people to eat less

C.May American tried to get slim

D.the America waistline started to expand

34、what does the survey indicate?

A.Low-income American prefer large portions

B.20 percent Americans want smaller portions

C.57 percent Americans earn $150.000 per year

D.23 percent Americans earn less than $25.000per year

35、which of the following is NOT true of walking class Americans?

A.they don’t have the habit of saving money

B.they live from paycheck to paycheck

C.they work long hours

D.the want to be healthy eaters

本題分數（15）

第4部分：閱讀理解

31  c  文章開頭說“把盤里的東西吃干凈”，這里的clean并不是wash的意思，而是指“不要浪費食品"的意思，從后面接著所說的“你要想想非洲那些餓著肚子的孤兒吧！”就可以佐證。

32  A  本題的答案來自于第三段第三句，該句說“美國人習慣于把食物的量與食物的價值聯系在一起”，所以就很重視食物的量。

33  D  第三段說，美國的一位營養學教授說，“20世紀70年代美國飯館的份飯的量開始變大，而同時美國人的腰圍也開始變粗”.

34  A  倒數第二段最后一句說“年收入低于25000美元的美國人中只有45%的人愿意份飯的量小一點”，可見大部分人還是愿意分量大一些。其他三個選項都與文章所說內容不符。

35  A  最后一段中，選項B、C、D都分別提到，而A項所說的與文章內容不符，故是錯的。文章最后一句說的是，“他們想省點錢好為來年圣誕節買禮物”，而不是“沒有存錢的習慣”.

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