50.
The passage mainly tells us _____________.
A. how
women in Desum Purbahari get their water
B. how
much water a day a person needs
C.
that India
lacks water badly
D. how
India
government manages to solve the problem of water
C
One
day last September, as Britney Spears was about to board a flight to Los Angeles from London,
a blue bottle fell out of her purse. She quickly put it back in, but not before
the camera recorded the event. Neither Spears nor her spokesman was willing to
comment on the contents of the bottle, but the next morning London’s Daily Express published a page of
pictures under the headline “EXCLUSIVE: POP PRINCESS SPOTTED AT AIRPORT WITH
POT OF SLIMMING TABLETS”. Spears was apparently carrying Zantrex-3, one of the
most popular weight-loss pills now sold in the United States. The pill, which is
sold at about fifty dollars for a month’s supply, contains a huge amount of
caffeine, some green tea, and three common South American herbs that also act
as stimulants(兴奋剂). It hit the U.S.
market last March and has had a success that would be hard to overstate.
Millions of bottles have been sold, and during the Christmas season it was displayed
in the windows of the nation’s largest chain of vitamin shops, G.N.C.(It is so highly
sought after that many of the stores keep it in locked counters.)Zantrex-3 is also
sold at CVS, Rite Aid, Wal-Mart, and other chains, and over the telephone and on
the Internet. If you type “Zantrex” into Google, more than a hundred thousand
pieces of information about it will appear. At any moment, there are scores of
people sell it on eBay.
Perhaps
the most interesting thing about the success story of Zantrex-3, however, is
that it is far from unique. There are hundreds of similar products on the
market today, and they are bought by millions of Americans. And though
Zantrex’s producer makes some exciting statements(“ the most advanced weight
control compound(化合物)period”), so do the people who sell
Stacker 2 and suggest that they can help people lose weight and regain lost
energy, and often without diet, exercise, or any other effort.
