Alonzo Bland is spending the holiday season at a Chinese fat farm．The Green Bay, Wis., resident（居民）will miss his family, but otherwise he’s not complaining．

“It s a little drastic（過激）to come to China，”admits Bland，33，who used to be a couch potato and addict to KFC food．“But drastic is what I needed。at 646 pounds．”That was Bland’s weight when his China adventure began in May, after winning a competition by China Connection，a firm that promotes traditional Chinese medicine．The prize：a year at China’s top weight—loss center, the Aimin（Love the People）Fat Reduction Hospital．

   The private hospital treats an increasing number of Americans and other foreigners．But its real customer base，served by 18 clinics nationwide，is domestic—and growing．The once-slim Chinese nation is flow on the fast track to a U．S．-style obesity crisis（肥胖危機(jī)）．About 30％of all Chinese adults are overweight or obese，says Chen Chunming，a nutritional expert at China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention，part of the Ministry of Health．“We don’t need to keep doing new surveys．We know the problem is severe and getting worse，” she says．

    China's heavyweights still stay behind the USA, where two out of three people are overweight or obese, but China “is on course to be exactly like the U.S. in 10 or 20 years,” says James Hill, director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. “No country has been able to stop things from getting worse. The causes of obesity are the same in China as in the USA．You have an environment where there are many foodstuffs available and no need for physical activity,” he says.

1．Alonzo Bland is mentioned as a ________.

     A．volunteer                              B．doctor

     C．patient                                D．researcher

2．The "Chinese fat farm" where Alonzo Bland stays is called ________

     A．Green Bay, Wis.

     B．China Connection

     C．the Aimin Fat Reduction Hospital

     D．China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention

3．The underlined word "domestic" in the third paragraph possibly means ________

     A．inside the hospital                                B．within the country

     C．outside the country                      D．a(chǎn)ll over the world

4．Which statement would James Hill disagree with?

     A．Obesity is caused by uncontrolled eating and less exercise.

     B．Americans have remained as fat as they are since long ago.

     C．Chinese will get as fat as the Americans today.

     D．China can possibly slow down its steps towards obesity.

5．The general idea of the article is that ________

     A．China wrestles with growing obesity

     B．Chinese medicine is effective in treating obesity

     C．Chinese seek foreign help to lose weight

     D．China learns from USA to fight obesity