题目内容

4、The British government has decided to wipe out obesity through a new strategy - by offering fat people cash.

According to the latest measure, employers will be urged to set up competitions with money, other rewards for people who refuse junk food in favour of healthy eating and living.

And those who will lose the maximum amount of pounds will earn the biggest prizes, reports the Telegraph.

One competition, called The Biggest Loser, has a 130-pounds gift in store for the participant who loses the most weight in eight weeks.

The announcement comes after experts estimated that most of the population in Britain would be obese by 2050 unless urgent action is taken and the related rise in ill health would cost the 50 billion pounds a year.

According to ministers, giving people cash to fight overweight will help avoid larger costs associated with treating cancer, heart disease and diabetes (糖尿病) caused by obesity.

The government said that it wants to make Britain the first major nation to cancel the rising tide of obesity.

And the important strategy - Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives - is their solution to the problem.

The strategy will start a series of projects run through a Well@work scheme led by British Heart Foundation, which will offer rewards to workers who lose weight.

Another key focus for the strategy is to control rising obesity among children.

The government has set itself a target of reducing the proportion of overweight and obese children to 2000 levels by 2020.

There will also be a “Walking into Health” campaign, aiming to get a third of the population in England walking an extra thousand steps -- around a kilometer -- every day by 2012.

“We will look at using financial measures, such as payments, and other rewards, to encourage individuals to lose weight and sustain that weight loss, to eat more healthily, or to be consistently more physically active,”officials said.

The UK Government is investing 372 million pounds over three years to realize the strategy and annual progress reports will be published.

1．Which of the following is NOT one of the new strategies introduced by the British government?

  A．Offering cash to fat people who lose weight. 

  B．Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives.

  C．Conducting a“Walking into Health” campaign.

  D．Encouraging people to keep physically active.

2．The British government ministers who introduced the new strategy certainly believe that ______.

  A．Britain will become the first major nation to cancel the rising tide of obesity

  B．50 billion pounds a year can cover the costs in ill health caused by obesity

  C．cash given to people losing weight will be much less than medical costs caused by obesity

  D．the proportion of overweight and obese children can be reduced to 2000 levels by 2020

3．In the strategy “Healthy Weight, Healthy Lives”, ________.

  A．the employers have to set up competitions for their employees aimed at losing weight

  B．British Heart Foundation launches a series of projects through a Well@work scheme

  C．the UK government will invest 372 million pounds on the losing weight individuals

  D．the person who loses the most weight in 8 weeks will win 130 pounds as a gift

4．The underlined word “obese” probably means _______.

  A．too fat               B．healthy               C．thin                  D．large