阅读下面短文,根据所给的首字母,在空白处填入一个适当的单词,使短文意思完整。

About 70, 000, 000 Americans are trying to lose weight(减肥), That is almost one of every three people in the United States.Some people eat l  1    food and they hardly have fat or sweets.Others do running, exercise with machines, take medicine, or even have operations.So you can see losing weight is h  2   work, and it will also cost a lot of money.But why do so many people in the United States want to lose weight?

Many people in the United States worry about their look of the bodies, For many people, looking nice also means to be t  3  .Other people worry about their health as many doctors say overweight is not good.

Most People want to find a faster and e  4   way to take off fat, and books of this kind are very popular.These books tell people how to lose weight.Each year a lot of new books like these are w  5  .Each one says it can easily help people take fat away.

Losing weight can be expensive.Some overweight people go to health centers, like La Costa in California.Men and woman p  6   several hundred dollars a day at these health centers.People live there for one week or two t  7   exercise, eating different foods, Meals there may be just a little.All these work is for losing weight.After 4 days on the programme, one woman called Mrs. Warren lost 5pounds (2.27kg).At $400 a day, she spent $320 to lose each pound.But she said she was still g  8   to do so.

Health centers, books, medicine, operations, running and exercise machines all n  9   a lot of money.So in the United States, losing weight may mean losing m  10 

阅读短文,根据要求完成下面各小题。

The world is divided into two main parts.The difference is that one part is rich and the other is poor.In the poor part, a lot of people never get enough to eat.In the rich part, a lot of people eat too much.In one part, children starve(挨饿)and in the other, (3)a lot of people get fatter and have to go on diets(节食), or do special exercise in order to lose weight.

The poorer countries have special problems.Sometimes the land is too poor to plant anything.The land can be improved, but a lot of things must be done first.The people must be educated and water must be found.

But rich countries have problems, too.Three are not always pleasant places to live in.Sometimes the air is too dirty to breathe, and the rivers are too dirty to swim in.The roads are too crowed to drive along.(4)Large numbers of people do not have decent(体面的)houses to live in.Something will have to be done about these problems.The air and the river will have to be cleaned, and more houses will have to be built.

(一)根据短文内容简要回答问题。

1.Do the rich countries have many problems? What are they? (At least two items.)

2.What must be done to the poor part?

(二)将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。

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(三)请给短文拟一个适当的题目。

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