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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

本文通过调查得知：英国人由于懒惰不愿意参加体育锻炼，导致大多数人得了肥胖症。

1.D

2.D推理判断题。A项意思太绝对；B项在文中找不到依据；C项不是推测出来的，原文已经表明了；既然是由于懒惰造成了肥胖，威胁健康，由此我们可^(推测，人们应该活跃起来，加强锻炼，这样才能有健康的身体，所以D 项正确。

3.A细节判断题。第四段中讲到在被调查的人中大约有六分之一的人说如果他们的遥控器坏了，他们会继续看同一个频道而不是起身去换台，并非是A项所表达的意思，因此此题选A项。其他选项与原文内容都是吻合的。

4.A词义猜测题。根据该词所在的语境，句子中使用了too-to...结构，可以看出作者是在强调"如果我们不控制懒散这一问题可能造成的恶果，那我们整个一代将不能胜任最基本的工作"，再结合选项可知，只有basic"基本的"符合这一语境。

5.C细节理解题。根据倒数第二段提到的英国最懒惰城市的排名，文中只提到Glasgow,Birmingham和South?ampton,没有提到Nuffield，所以C项正确。