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Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by
some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices
marked A),B) ,C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the
corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the
centre.
Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage:
Increasingly, over the past ten years, people—especially young people—have
become aware of the need to change their eating habits, because much of the food
they eat, particularly processed foods, is not good for health.
Consequently,there has been a growing interest in natural foods: foods which do
not contain chemical additives and which have not been affected by chemical
fertilizers widely used in farming today.
Natural foods, for example, are vegetables, fruit and grain which have been
grown in soil that is rich in organic matter.In simple terms, this means that
the soil has been nourished by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with
essential vitamins and minerals. This in itself is a natural process compared
with the use of chemicals and fertilizers, the main purpose of which is to
increase the amount but not the quality of foods grown in commercial farming
areas.
Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed and move
freely in healthy pastures. Compare this with what happens in the mass
productionof poultry: there are battery farms, for example, where thousands of
chickens live crowded together in one building and are fed on food which is
little better than rubbish. Chickens kept in this way are not only tasteless as
food; but also produce eggs which lack important vitamins.
There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving
increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of
sugar. This is actually a nonessential food! Although a natural alternative,
such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if this necessary, we can in fact do
without it. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But it does seem to be
additive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last centuries and in
Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all it
does is provide us with energy, in the form of calories. There are no vitamins
in it, no minerals and nofiber.
It is significant that nowadays fiber is considered to be an important part
of a healthy diet. In white bread, for example ,the fiber has been removed. But
it is present in unrefined flour and of course in vegetables. It is interesting
to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of
unrefined flour and vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively rare. Hence
the emphasis is placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by
modern experts on “healthy eating”.
21.Which statement best expresses the main idea of this article?
A) People should eat any food to keep themselves healthy and strong.
B) People should eat natural foods to keep themselves healthy and
strong.
C) People should eat fiber foods to keep themselves healthy and strong.
D) People should eat vegetables to keep themselves healthy and strong.
22.“Particularly processed foods” means ____.
A) foods which are particularly processed by adding chemical additives
B) foods which are particularly made by commercial farms
C) foods which are specially produced by commercial factories
D) foods which are not specially made by adding anything
23.Natural foods means ____.
A) foods good for health
B) foods not good for health
C) foods such as vegetables, fruit and grain from rich organic matters
soil
D) crops from rich organic matters soil and meats of animals from healthy
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