Question

阅读下面短文并回答问题(请注意问题后的字数要求)。

　　[1]When the world was a simpler place, the rich were fat, the poor were thin, and right-thinking people worried about how to feed the hungry．Now, in much of the world, the rich are thin, the poor are fat, and ________．

　　[2]Thanks to rising agricultural productivity, lean years are rarer all over the globe．According to the UN, the number of people short of food fell from 920 million in 1980 to 799 million 20 years later, even though the world's population increased by 1.6 billion over the period．This is mostly a cause for celebration．Mankind has won what was, for most of his time on this planet, his biggest battle：to ensure that he and his offspring had enough to eat．But every silver lining has a cloud, and the result of prosperity is a new trouble．

　　[3]Fatness is the world's biggest public-health topic today－the main cause of heart disease, which kills more people these days than AIDS, malaria, war, the major risk factor in diabetes(糖尿病), heavily connected with cancer and other disease．Since the World Health Organization labeled fatness an“epidemic”(流行病)in 2000, reports on its fearful results have come thick and fast．

　　[4]Will public-health warnings, combined with media pressure, persuade people to get thinner, just as they finally put them off tobacco?Possibly．In the rich world, sales of healthier foods are booming and new figures suggest that over the past year Americans got very slightly thinner for the first time in recorded history．But even if Americans are losing a few ounces, it will be many years before the country solves the health problems caused by half a century's dinning to overload．And, everywhere else in the world, people are still piling on the pounds．That's why there is now an agreement among doctors that governments should do something to stop them．

1．What is the main idea the writer intends to tell us in this passage?(please answer within 8 words)

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2．Which sentence in the passage is the closest in the meaning to the following one?

While it is good that mankind has no trouble having enough to eat, a side-effect arises．

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3．Why does the author compare smoking with the fatness problem in this passage?(please answer within 20 words)

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4．In the First Paragraph, the two sentences show a striking contrast．What can be filled in the blank to complete the sentence?

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5．Please translate the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 into Chinese．

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Answer 1

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解析：

1．答案：Fatness has become a great health problem． 　　评分建议：能正确概括文章大意均可得分。需保证含义与参考答案一致，单词拼写无误。 　　2．答案：But every silver lining has a cloud, and the result of prosperity is a new trouble． 　　评分建议：能准确找出上述句子。字体清楚，有抄写错误要酌情扣分。 　　3．答案：They are both problems difficult to solve． 　　评分建议：只要表述意思与参考答案一致，均可得全分。有语言表达错误，或总体超过字数限制酌情扣分。 　　4．答案：right-thinking people are worrying about fatness(obesity)/how to lose weight． 　　评分建议：根据文章内容，与前一句结构上使语句对比，字体清楚、无拼写、语法错误，即可得分。 　　5．答案：在富有的国家，更健康的食品正旺销。新的数字表明，过去的一年，美国人有史以来第一次稍微纤瘦。 　　评分建议：注意几个关键词：booming, figures, slightly thinner．忠于原句，语句通顺，无语言错误，方可得3分。