Question

The food we eat seems to have far-reaching effects on our health. Although science has made great steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially the colon(结肠)cancer. Different cultures are more likely to cause certain different illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures. That food is related to illness is not a new discovery. In 1945, government researchers realized that carcinogenic(致癌的)nitrates(硝酸盐)，commonly used to preserve color in meats and other food additives(添加剂), caused cancer. Yet, these additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things on the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful. The additives, which we eat, are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin(青霉素)to cows and other living animals, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows. Sometime, similar drugs are given to animals not for medical purposes, but for financial reason. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.

1.　　   What is the best possible title of the passage?

A. Drugs and Health　　　　    B. Food and Illness

C. Food and Culture    　　　　D. Health and Science

2.　　   Which of the following statements is NOT true?

a)　　　　 Drugs are always given to animals for medical reasons.

b)　　    Some of the additives in our food are added directly to the food and some are given to living animals.

c)　　    Researchers have realized the possible dangers of food additives for over fifty years.

d)　　    Food may cause 40% of cancer in the world.

3.　　   How has science done something harmful to mankind?

a)　　　　 Because of science, diseases caused by contaminated(被污染的) food have been actually reduced.

b)　　    It has caused a lack of information concerning the food.

c)　　    Due to the application of science, some potentially harmful substances have been added to food.

d)　　    It causes the animals to become fatter.

4.　　   The government tries to _______.

a)　　　　 control the market price of food.

b)　　    stop the farmers from giving drugs to animals to make more money.

c)　　    get rid of the additives from the packaged food

d)　　    use no medicine on the animals

 

Answer 1

答案：1B2A3C4B
提示：

1.　　   通读完整篇文章即可得知，这篇文章说的是食品和疾病的关系 2.　　   A错误，有时不是为了医治，而是为了取得经济效益 3.　　   科学使得生产食品时人们会添加一些有害物质 4.　　   参看最后一句话