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  Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook from scratch? Have you been doing Internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do?

  A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adults are so lazy that they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.

  Just over 2 ，000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuff?ield Health,Britain's largest health charity. The results were astonishing.

  About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken,they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.

  More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus. Worryingly,of the 654 respondents with children,64% said they were of?ten too tired to play with them.

  This led the report to conclude that it's no wonder that one in six children in the UK is classified as obese (very fat) before they start school.

  Dr Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said,"People need to get fitter,not just for their own sake,but for the sake of their families,friends and evidently their pets too."

  "If we don't start to take control of this problem,a whole generation will become too unfit to perform even the most rudimentary of tasks.”

  And Scotland's largest city, Glasgow?was shamed as the most inactive city in the UK，with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise* fol?lowed closely by Birmingham and Southampton,both with 67%.

  The results cause serious challenges for the National Health Service,where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.

1.What causes children in the UK to be obese?

    A. Eating a ready meal.   B. Watching TV.

   C. Doing Internet shopping.   D. Being lazy.

2.What can be inferred from the passage?

   A.British people are too lazy to do anything.

   B.Internet shopping will do harm to your health.

   C.Many people would not run to catch a bus in Britain.

   D.People should be more active and take regular exercise to keep fit.

3.Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

   A.One sixth of British people use remote control when watching TV.

   B.People will benefit not only themselves but their families by getting fit.

   C.Fatness can cause diseases such as heart disease and cancer.

   D.More people get obesity-related illnesses now than 40 years ago.

4.What does the underlined word "rudimentary" (in the eighth paragraph) most probably mean?

    A. Basic.   B. Serious.

   C. Vital.   D. Hard.

5.All the following are among the most lazy cities in the UK EXCEPT

    A. Glasgow   B. Birmingham

   C. Nuffield   D. Southampton

Answer 1

本文通過調(diào)查得知：英國(guó)人由于懶惰不愿意參加體育鍛煉，導(dǎo)致大多數(shù)人得了肥胖癥。

1.D

2.D推理判斷題。A項(xiàng)意思太絕對(duì)；B項(xiàng)在文中找不到依據(jù)；C項(xiàng)不是推測(cè)出來的，原文已經(jīng)表明了；既然是由于懶惰造成了肥胖，威脅健康，由此我們可^(推測(cè)，人們應(yīng)該活躍起來，加強(qiáng)鍛煉，這樣才能有健康的身體，所以D 項(xiàng)正確。

3.A細(xì)節(jié)判斷題。第四段中講到在被調(diào)查的人中大約有六分之一的人說如果他們的遙控器壞了，他們會(huì)繼續(xù)看同一個(gè)頻道而不是起身去換臺(tái)，并非是A項(xiàng)所表達(dá)的意思，因此此題選A項(xiàng)。其他選項(xiàng)與原文內(nèi)容都是吻合的。

4.A詞義猜測(cè)題。根據(jù)該詞所在的語境，句子中使用了too-to...結(jié)構(gòu)，可以看出作者是在強(qiáng)調(diào)"如果我們不控制懶散這一問題可能造成的惡果，那我們整個(gè)一代將不能勝任最基本的工作"，再結(jié)合選項(xiàng)可知，只有basic"基本的"符合這一語境。

5.C細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)倒數(shù)第二段提到的英國(guó)最懶惰城市的排名，文中只提到Glasgow,Birmingham和South?ampton,沒有提到Nuffield，所以C項(xiàng)正確。