2009年黑龙江学位英语考试真题
Fat people risk severe health problems, says the report, including high blood pressure, breathlessness, and various forms of heart disease. Smoking is particularly risky for overweight people.
The safest way to lose weight is to eat cereals, bread, fruit and vegetables, and cut down on fatty meats, butter and sweet foods. Current diets do far more harm than good; slimming machines that vibrate muscles have not been proved useful; saunas (蒸气浴) merely remove a little body water, and health farms, says the report, serve as expensive holidays.
The report emphasizes that exercise is most important to health. Though it doesn't necessarily reduce weight, it maintains the correct proportion of body fat to body muscle. And it isn't only for the young. From middle age a minimum of 20 minutes of gentle physical jerks should be practiced three times a week.
The report advocates several public health measures to combat the high prevalence of overweight in this country. They include an increase of tax on alcohol to reduce its increasing, and dangerously fattening consumption; and the provision of more sports facilities by local authorities. Britain's doctors, the report concludes, must learn to be more sympathetic and specific in their advice to the overweight, encouraging a change in eating habits on a long-term basis, and taking into account the many-often complex-reasons why fat people are fat.
46. The passage is mainly about______.
A. why many British people are overweight
B. how to avoid getting overweight
C. British people' s overweight problem
D. the relations between overweight and health
47. According to the report，a person is most likely to stay fat for the whole of his life if he______.
A. gets fat in middle age B. gets fat in his twenties
C. gets fat when he is a child D. is born fat
48. The report thinks that exercise________.
A. is a way to reduce weight C. can convert fat to muscle
B. is a sure way to keep one healthy D. sometimes increases weight
49. The report points out that drinking too much alcohol________.
A. will also cause a person to get overweight
B. will cause a person to do less sports
C. will make a person forget the fact that he is fat
D. will lead a person to bad eating habits
50. The report suggests that when treating the overweight, doctors should______.
A. encourage a long-term diet for everyone
B. first consider why so many people are overweight
C. know that there are complex reasons why a person gets overweight
D. be more considerate and give detailed advice
Questions 51 to 55 are based on the following passage:
A scientist who does research in economic psychology and who wants to predict the way in which consumers will spend their money must study consumer behavior. He must obtain data both on the resources of consumers and on the motives that tend to encourage or discourage money spending. If an economist were asked which of the three groups borrow most-people with rising incomes, stable incomes or declining incomes-he would probably answer those with declining incomes. Actually, in the years 1947-1950, the answer was: people with rising incomes. People with declining incomes were next and people with stable incomes borrowed the least. This shows us that traditional assumptions about earning and spending are not always reliable. Another traditional assumption is that if people who have money expect prices to go up, they will hasten to buy. If they expect prices to go down, they will postpone buying. But research surveys have shown that this is not always true. The expectations of price increases may not stimulate buying. The investigations mentioned above were carried out in America. Investigations conducted at the same time in Great Britain, however, yielded results that were more in agreement with traditional assumptions about saving and spending patterns. The condition most favorable to spending appears to be price stability. If prices have been stable and people consider that they are reasonable, they are likely to buy. Thus, it appears that common business policy of maintaining stable prices is based on correct understanding of consumer psychology.
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