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We have all heard the saying."You are what you eat." But how many of us are willing to admit that the expression applies to us as well as to all those unidentified people out there?Current research suggests that the majority of Americans have bad eating habits,and some of this is determined by our lifestyle,which demands that we eat quickly and inexpensively.

What are the commonest foods on the American menu? Hamburgers and French fries,sugar-laden drinks;pies andwhipped cream,malts and ice-cream. Apart from an occasional broiled hamburger,all the things on that list are bad for us.And there are certain prophets of doom who predict that all those fatladen fast foods provide us with only one thing-a faster road to the grave.

On the other hand, there are those who claim that the basic fast-food meal contains all the nourishment you need. After all, there are meat. milk, salad (if you have the extras), and bread. And if you have a cheeseburger instead of a hamburger, you are doing yourself an extra favor by adding additional protein.What these good news gossips are overlooking is the usually pulpy bun; the excess of sugar in the maltose or Coke;and overdose of salt that is sprinkled on the hamburger to make palatable (美味的).

So you decide to stay away from the hamburger joint, and buy your food from the supermarket. Are you any better off? Not if you buy frozen or canned food. The experts tell us that canned and frozen vegetables contain sugar, as well as all sorts of perspectives that are not doing anything to improve your health. According to these people. the only way to be sure your food is good for you is to buy it and cook it fresh. And then. of course. you have to eat it-and that creates another problem. The speed of today's world has encouraged many of us to eat far too fast. We do not chew our food enough, and we eat on the run or we jump and start running the minutc we finish eating.

参考译文

我们都听说过这样一句话：吃什么，就长成什么样。但是有多少人愿意承认这句话不仅适用于那些不在这里的不相识的人，还适用于我们自己呢？[1]当前的调查结果表明大多数美国人的饮食习惯糟糕，而有些习惯是我们的生活方式决定的。这种生活方式迫使我们吃便宜的快餐类食品。

那么美国人食谱上最常见的食品有哪些呢？汉堡包和炸薯条，富糖饮料。馅饼和生奶油，麦牙和冰淇淋。除了人们偶尔一吃的烤肉汉堡包外，单子上所有的其他食物都对我们的健康不好。[2]有一些悲观的预言家断言说这些高脂肪快餐只能提供给我们一样东西——通向死亡的捷径。

另一方面，有些人认为基本的快餐食品中含有我们需要的所有营养。毕竟，这些食品中有肉、牛奶、色拉（如果你额外买了的话）和面包。[3]如果你用夹干酪的汉堡包代替普通汉堡包，你就额外多吸收了一些于已有益的蛋白质。这些褒奖之辞所忽略的是那些小面包通常太过柔软；麦芽糖和可乐里的糖份过多；以及汉堡包，为了使其变得可口，里面加入了过量的盐。

你于是决定远离汉堡包连锁店，只从超市里买食物。这样你就更加安全了吗？答案是除非你要的不是冷冻或罐头食品。专家告诉我们罐装和冷冻蔬菜含有糖和其他各种对人的身体健康无益的东西。[4]根据这些人的观点，保证食品对健康有益的唯一战术就是自己现买现做。接下来，当然喽，你要吃掉它——这会产生另外一个问题。[5]当今社会的速度促使大家吃得太快了。我们没有把食物嚼烂，匆匆忙忙地吃，或者刚刚吃完饭就一跃而起，去赶时间。

测试题

1.According to current research，the bad eating habits of the Americans are determined by their_____________________.

2.Who most probably thinks that the fat-laden fast foods are fatal?

3.Compared with a hamburger, a cheeseburger provides us with more______________________.

4.What should we do with the food so as to be better off?

5.By saying that "we eat on the run". the author means that we are made to__________________.

答案详解

1.[lifestyle]
[定位]根据题干中的current research，bad eating habits和determined查找到第1段最后一句。

解析：题干将原文该句that后两个并列分句合并成一个句子，原文by后的lifestyle即本题答案。

2.[The prophets of doom.]
[定位]根据题干中的fal-laden fast foods查找到第2段最后一句。

解析：probably thinks对应原文的predict，fatal是原文a faster road to the grave的同义表达，题干问的是持某类观点的人，因此答案为The prophets of doom。

3.[protein]
[定位]根据题干中的hamburger和cheeseburger查找到第3段第3句。

解析：题干中的provides... with more对应原文的adding additional,即用夹干酪的汉堡包代替普通的汉堡包可以吸收到更多的某种物质，空白处需要名词（词组），所以要填入的答案为protein。

4.[Buy it and cook it fresh.]
[定位]根据题干中的better off查找到原文第4段的设问句和其后的内容。

解析：原文就better off自问自答，先指出冷冻和罐装食品对健康无益，然后指出保证食品对健康有益的做法是自己现买现做，即Buy it and cook it fresh。

5.[eat far too fast]
[定位]根据题干中的we eat on the run查找到末段最后两句。

解析：原文通过we eat on the run和we jump and start running the minute we finish eating，对前一个句子做进一步解释说明——当代社会的快节奏使得我们吃得太快，也就是说我们被迫使eat far too fast。