Obesity is rapidly becoming a new scourge
of the western world, delegates agreed at the 11th European Conference on the
issue in Vienna Wednesday to Saturday. According to statements before the
opening of the conference—of 2,000 specialists from more than 50 countries—1.2
billion people worldwide are overweight, and 250 million are obese.
Professor Bernhard Ludvik of Vienna General Hospital said: "Obesity is a
chronic illness. In Germany, 20 percent of the people are already affected, but
in Japan only one percent." But he said that there was hope for sufferers thanks
to the new scientific discoveries and medication. Professor
Friedrich Hopichler of Salzberg said. "We are living in the new age (but) with
the metabolism of a stone-age man." "I have just been to the United States. It
is really terrible. A pizza shop is springing up on every corner. We have been
overrun by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization." Many of the
experts stressed that obesity was a potential killer. Hopichler said: "80
percent of all diabetics are obese, also 50 percent of all patients with high
blood pressure and 50 percent with adipose tissue complaints." "10 percent more
weight means 13 percent more risk of heart disease. Reducing one's weight by 10
percent leads to 13 percent lower blood pressure." Another
expert Hermann Toplak said that the state health services should improve their
financing of preventive programs. "Though the health insurance pays for surgery
(such as reducing the size of the stomach) when the body-mass index is more than
40. That is equivalent to a weight of 116 kilograms for a height of 1.70 meters.
One should start earlier." Ludvik said that prevention should
begin in school. "Child obesity (fat deposits) correlates with the time which
children spend in front of TV sets." The consequences were only
apparent later on. No more than 15 percent of obese people lived to the average
life expectancy for their population group.
单选题
It is estimated that there are ______ people suffering from obesity in
the world.
A.250,000,000
B.1,200,000,000
C.1,450,000,000
D.950,000,000
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第一段最后一句“...1.2 billion people...250 million are obese”可知，全世界有12亿人体重超重，2.5亿人肥胖。故本题选A。
单选题
It seems that the ______ people are least affected by obesity among the
developed countries and areas mentioned in the passage.
A.European
B.German
C.American
D.Japanese
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据文章第二段第二句“In Germany...but in Japan...”可知，德国有20%的人患肥胖症，而日本只有1%，所以B项错误。根据文章第三段最后一、二句“A pizza shop...been overrun by fast food and Coca-Cola-ization.”可知，在美国到处都有比萨店，人们深受快餐食品和可口可乐化的侵害，所以C项错误。根据题目Obesity: the Scourge of the Western World可知，欧洲患肥胖症的人也很多，所以A项错误。故本题选D。
单选题
Which of the following is most often accompanied by obesity?
单选题
What is the correlation between body weight and heart disease and blood
pressure?
A.10 percent less body weight means 10 percent less risk of heart disease
and high blood pressure.
B.13 percent more body weight means 10 percent more risk of heart disease
and high blood pressure.
C.The more body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and high
blood pressure he has.
D.The less body weight one gains, the more risk of heart disease and the
less risk of high blood pressure he has.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据文章第四段第三、四句“10 percent more weight means 13 percent...leads to 13 percent lower blood pressure”可知，体重增加10%意味着患心脏病的危险增加13%，体重减少10%可导致血压降低13%，所以A项和B项错误。只有C项符合，故本题选C。
单选题
From Paragraph 6 we may infer that one of the effective measures
suggested by Ludvik to prevent children from being obese would be ______.
A.not to permit them to watch TV at all
B.to tell them to spend less time watching TV
C.to turn off TV when they are in front of TV sets
D.to calculate accurately the time that a child spends watching TV