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第四部分：阅读理解（第31~45题，每题3分，共45分）

下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题。请根据短文内容，为每题确定1个最佳选项

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

本题分数（15）

第4部分：阅读理解

31  c  文章开头说“把盘里的东西吃干净”，这里的clean并不是wash的意思，而是指“不要浪费食品"的意思，从后面接着所说的“你要想想非洲那些饿着肚子的孤儿吧！”就可以佐证。

32  A  本题的答案来自于第三段第三句，该句说“美国人习惯于把食物的量与食物的价值联系在一起”，所以就很重视食物的量。

33  D  第三段说，美国的一位营养学教授说，“20世纪70年代美国饭馆的份饭的量开始变大，而同时美国人的腰围也开始变粗”.

34  A  倒数第二段最后一句说“年收入低于25000美元的美国人中只有45%的人愿意份饭的量小一点”，可见大部分人还是愿意分量大一些。其他三个选项都与文章所说内容不符。

35  A  最后一段中，选项B、C、D都分别提到，而A项所说的与文章内容不符，故是错的。文章最后一句说的是，“他们想省点钱好为来年圣诞节买礼物”，而不是“没有存钱的习惯”.

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