2021年12月英语四级长篇阅读真题答案

1、12月英语四级长篇阅读真题答案 xx年12月英语四级长篇阅读真题答案 xx年12月英语四级考试于12月20日 _。网将在12月20日考后第一时间发布xx年12月英语四级长篇阅读真题答案。敬请广大考生密切 _就业指导网。 Directions：In this section，you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Each statement contains infor _tion given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph from

2、 which the infor _tion is derived. You _y choose a paragraph more than on _. Each paragraph is _rked with a letter. Answer the questions by _rking the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2. Ban sugary drinks that will add fuel to the obesity war A On a train last Thursday, I sat opposite a _n who w

3、as so fat he filled more than one seat. He was pale and disfigured and looked sick to death, which he probably was: obesity(肥胖的)leads to _ny nasty ways of dying. Looking around the carriage, I saw quite a few people like him, including a couple of fatty children with swollen checks pressing against

4、their eyes. These people are part of what is without exaggeration an epidemic(流行病)of obesity. B But it is quite unne _ssary: there is a _ idea- far from new- that could spare millions of such people a lifetime of chronic( _的)ill health, and at the same time save the National Health Servi _(NHS)at le

5、ast 14 billion a year in England and Wales. There would, you might think, be considerable public interest in it. This _ idea is that sugar is as good- or as bad- as poison and should be avoided. It is pure, white and deadly, as Professor John Yudkin described it 40 years ago in a revolutionary book

6、of that name. The subtitle was How Sugar Is Killing Us. C In its countless hidden forms, in ready meals, junk food and sweet drinks, sugar leads to addiction(瘾), to hormonal upsets to the appetite, to metabolic(新陈代谢的) _lfunctions and obesity and from there to type 2 diabetes(糖尿病)and its _ny horrible

7、 plication. If people really grasped that, they would try to kick the habit, particularly as Britain is the “ fat _n of Europe” . They might even feel driven to support gover _ent measures to prevent people from consuming this deadly stuff. Yet so far this idea has met little but resistan _. D It is

8、 not difficult to i _gine the vested interests(既得利益集团)lined up against any sugar control- all the food and drink _nufacturers, pro _ssors, promoters and retailers who _ke such easy pickings out of the _gic powers of sugar. Then there are the liberals, with whom I would nor _lly side, who protest tha

9、t gover _ent regulation would be yet another instan _ of interferen _ in our lives. EThat is true, but people should realize that you cannot have a welfare state without a nanny state(保姆国家), to some degree. If we are all to be responsible for one anothers health insuran _, through socialized medicin

10、e, then we are all closely involved in one anothers health, including everyones eating and drinking. That has already been admitted, finally, with _oking. But it has yet to be admitted with overeating, even though one in four _s in this country is obese and that number is predicted to double by the

11、year 2050.Quite apart from anything else, obesity will cripple the NHS. FRe _ntly, though, there have been signs that the medical establishment is trying to sound the alarm. Last month the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges(AMRC)published a report saying that obesity is the greatest public health iss

12、ue affecting the UK and urging gover _ent to do something. GThe report offers 10 remendations, of which the first is imposing a tax of 20 per _nt on sugary drinks for at least a year, on top of the existing 20 per _nt value-added tax. That at least would be an ex _llent start. The amounts of sugar i

13、n soft drinks are horrifying, and turn straight to fat. As Professor Teren _ Stephenson, head of the AMRC, has said, sugary soft drinks are “the ulti _te bad food. You are just consuming neat sugar. Your body didnt evolve to handle this kind of thing.” HPrecisely. The risks of eating too much fat or

14、 salt(which are very different)pale into insignificant pared with the harm done by sugar. And it is everywhere. IIt is difficult to buy anything in a super _rket, other than plain, unprepared meat, fish or vegetables, that doesnt have a large amount of sugar in it. This has e about because the preva

15、iling scientific views of the 1960s and 1970s ignored the eviden _ about sugar, and instead saw fat as the really serious risk, both to the heart and other organs, as well as the cause of obesity. JThe fashion was to avoid fat. But finding that food with much of its fat removed is not very appetizin

16、g, food produ _rs turned to sugar as a _gic alternative flavor enhan _r, often in the forms of syrups(糖浆)that had re _ntly been developed from corn, and put it generously into most prepared foods and soft drinks. KThis stuff is not just fattening. It is addictive. It interferes with the bodys metabo

17、li _, possibly via the activity of an appetite-controlling hormone. Theres plenty of eviden _ for this, for those who will aept the truth. LTheoretically, people ought to _ke “healthy choi _s” and avoid overeating. But sugar additives are not easy to identify and are hard to avoid. So the snacking,

18、over-drinking and over eating that _kes people fat is not really their own fault: obesity is in large part something that is being done to them. It should be stopped, or rather the gover _ent should stop it. MGoing round my local super _rket, I am constantly astonished that it is still legal to sell

19、 all the poisons stacked high on the shelves. The problem is that they are worse than useless. They are poisonous. They are known to be addictive. They are known to _ke people obese. And giving s _ll children sweet drinks or bottles of fake jui _ all day long is nothing less than child abuse. NClear

20、ly, the sale of such stuff ought to be illegal. I hate to think of yet more gover _ent regulation. But a bit of tax on sweet soda and a little more health education, a bit of cooking in schools and banning vending _chines(自动售货机)here and there as suggested try the AMRC report is not going to achieve

21、very much. Labelling is quite inadequate. What is needed is legislation banning high levels of sugary syrups used in foods and drinks. OIn June xx, the then minister for public health said the gover _ent was not scared of the food industry and had not ruled out legislation, because of the costs of o

22、besity to the NHS. However, nothing has happened yet. Why not have another Jammie Dodger biscuit and forget about it. 47 Avoiding over-consumption of sugar can improve peoples health as well as save medical expenses. 答案：B 48 Laws should be passed to _ke it illegal to produ _ overly sweet foods or drinks. 答案：N 49 Giving s _ll children sweet jui _s to drink all the time is equa