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【题目】The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment. These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.

David Tillman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health. He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized, population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt(采纳) 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. David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for non-infectious diseases like diabetes（糖尿病）and heart disease.

Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia. China is an example where the number of diabetes cases has been jumping from less than one percent to 10 percent of the population as they began to industrialize over a 20-year period. And that is happening all across the world, in Mexico, in Nigeria and so on.

And, a diet bad for human beings, is also bad for the environment. As the world's population grows, more forests and tropical（热带的）areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for cattle. We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all forms of transportation right now.

Mr. Tillman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, "a trilemma": a problem offering a difficult choice. He says one possible settlement is leaving the Western diet behind.

【1】According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given off in the future from ____________.

A. transportation B. developing countries

C. agriculture D. developed countries

【2】David Tilman believes that__________.

A. diet, the environment and human health are closely connected

B. the Western diet is the only choice as the nation industrializes

C. people in tropical areas are more likely to have heart disease

D. traditional diets are more balanced than the Western diet

【3】We can infer from the passage that ___________.

A. Nigeria has the largest number of diabetes cases

B. overweight people are at higher risk of infectious diseases

C. the examined information comes from developing countries

D. industrialization contributes to the spread of the Western diet

【4】The main purpose of the passage is to___________.

A. call on us to protect the environment

B. warn us of the danger of the Western diet

C. remind us of the importance of health

D. advise us to have a balanced diet

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】A

【3】D

【4】B

【解析】

试题分析：随着全球化进程进一步加快，西方的饮食习惯也层层逼近世界的每一个角落，它是否对我们的饮食健康或者环境造成影响呢？这篇文章就做了详细的介绍。

【1】C 考查细节理解。根据原文的We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all forms of transportation right now.我们将来更多的温室气体将会来自农业而不是现在的交通。可以判断出答案选择C项。

【2】A 考查细节理解。根据原文的He found that as nations industrialized, population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt(采纳) what has been called the Western diet.他发现随着国家工业化的进程，人口的增加以及收入的提高，越来越多的人开始采纳所谓的西方饮食。可以判断出A项是正确的。

【3】D 考查推理判断。根据原文的Unfortunately when people become industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia不幸的是，当人们变得工业化，如果他们采纳了西方饮食，他们将会产生健康问题，尤其是在亚洲的发展中国家。可以判断出随着工业化脚步的加快，西方饮食在不断侵入。

【4】B 考查主旨要义。根据原文的He says one possible settlement is leaving the Western diet behind.可以看出是在警告我们西方事物的弊端。所以答案选择B项。