Question

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　　[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． 　　評分建議：能正確概括文章大意均可得分。需保證含義與參考答案一致，單詞拼寫無誤。 　　2．答案：But every silver lining has a cloud, and the result of prosperity is a new trouble． 　　評分建議：能準(zhǔn)確找出上述句子。字體清楚，有抄寫錯誤要酌情扣分。 　　3．答案：They are both problems difficult to solve． 　　評分建議：只要表述意思與參考答案一致，均可得全分。有語言表達(dá)錯誤，或總體超過字?jǐn)?shù)限制酌情扣分。 　　4．答案：right-thinking people are worrying about fatness(obesity)/how to lose weight． 　　評分建議：根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容，與前一句結(jié)構(gòu)上使語句對比，字體清楚、無拼寫、語法錯誤，即可得分。 　　5．答案：在富有的國家，更健康的食品正旺銷。新的數(shù)字表明，過去的一年，美國人有史以來第一次稍微纖瘦。 　　評分建議：注意幾個關(guān)鍵詞：booming, figures, slightly thinner．忠于原句，語句通順，無語言錯誤，方可得3分。