Question

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, especially processed food(加工過(guò)的食品), is not good for the health. As a result, there has been a growing interest in natural foods: foods which do not contain chemical additives(添加劑) and which have not been affected by chemical fertilizers(化肥), 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 words, this means that the soil has been nourished(給…營(yíng)養(yǎng)) by unused vegetable matter, which provides it with 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 area.
Natural foods also include animals which have been allowed to feed move freely in healthy pastures(牧場(chǎng)). Compare this with what happens in the mass production of poultry(家禽)：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; they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins.
There are other sides of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually unnecessary food. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But it does seem to be addictive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two 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 no fibre.
【小題1】People have become more interested in natural foods because______.

A．they want to keep healthy

B．they want to taste all kinds of foods

C．natural foods are more delicious than processed foods

D．they want to return to nature

【小題2】Chickens raised in poultry farms are all of the following EXCEPT that _____.

A．they are fed on food which is little better than garbage

B．they live in very crowded condition

C．the eggs they produce lack vitamins

D．they are allowed to move about and eat freely

【小題3】According to the passage, ______.

A．people can only find sugar to give them energy

B．sugar is bad for the health

C．the use of sugar is habit forming

D．sugar only sweetens food, but provides us with nothing useful

Answer 1

【小題1】A
【小題2】D
【小題3】C 

解析【小題1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。由第一段可知“因?yàn)樗麄兯�吃的大部分食品，特別是加工食品，對(duì)健康不利。因此，人們?cè)絹?lái)越對(duì)天然食品感興趣，即不含化學(xué)添加劑的食品和不受如今農(nóng)業(yè)中廣泛使用的化肥影響的食品�！�
【小題2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合第三段可知：有許多籠式養(yǎng)雞場(chǎng)，那里數(shù)以千計(jì)的雞擠在一間雞舍內(nèi)，所喂的飼料幾乎無(wú)異于垃圾。用這種方法養(yǎng)的雞不僅乏味，而且下的蛋缺乏重要的維生素。沒(méi)有提到D項(xiàng)。
【小題3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。結(jié)合最后一段中for example, the question of sugar. This is actually unnecessary food可知答案。