Passage 3
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:
In the United States, 30 percent of the adult population has a "weight problem". To many people, the cause is obvious: they eat too much. But scientific evidence does little to support this idea. Going back to the America of the 1910s, we find that people were thinner than today, yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used machines much less and didn't watch television.
Several modem studies, moreover, have shown that fatter people do not eat more on the average than thinner people. In fact, some investigations, such as the 1979 study of 3, 545 London office workers, report that, on balance, fat people eat less than slimmer people.
Studies show that slim people are more active than fat people. A study by a research group at Stanford University School of Medicine found the following interesting facts:
The more the men ran, the more body fat they lost.
The more they ran, the greater amount of food they ate.
(80) Thus, those who ran the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of body fat.
11. The physical problem that many adult Americans have is that__________.
A. they are too slim B. they work too hard
C. they are too fat D. they lose too much body fat
12. According to the article, given 500 adult Americans, __________ people will have a "weight problem".
A. 30 B. 50 C. 100 D. 150
13. Is there any scientific evidence to support that eating too much is the cause of a "weight problem"?
A. Yes, there is plenty of evidence.
B. Of course, there is some evidence to show this is true.
C. There is hardly any scientific evidence to support this.
D. We don't know because the information is not given.
14. In comparison with the adult American population today, the Americans of the 1910s __________.
A. ate more food and had more physical activities
B. ate less food but had more activities
C. ate less food and had less physical exercise
D. had more weight problems
15. Modem scientific researches have reported to us that__________.
A. fat people eat less food and are less active
B. fat people eat more food than slim people and are more active
C. fat people eat more food than slim people but are less active
D. thin people run less, but have greater increase in food intake
Part II Vocabulary and Structure (30%)
Directions: In this part there are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, Bi C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
16. __________, we decided to leave at once, as we didn't want to risk missing the bus.
A. As it being pretty late B, It being pretty late
C. It was being pretty late D. Being pretty late
17. __________ was once regarded as impossible has now become a reality.
A. What B. That
C. Which D. As
18. Mr. Smith, together with his wife and children, __________ going to the party this weekend.
A. am B. is
C. are D. will
19. Would you mind __________ the computer game in your room?
A. him playing B. his playing
C. him to play D. him play
20. By next year he __________ in New York for five years.
A. has worked B. has been working
C. works D. will have worked
21. Henry is often seen __________ English aloud every morning in the classroom.
A. read B. reads
C. reading D. to read
22. Without heat and sunlight, plants on the earth __________ well.
A. would not grow B. will not grow
C. had not grown D. would not be grown
23. Only recently __________ to deal with the environmental problems.
A. something has done B. has something done
C. has something been done D. something has been done
24. The question __________ at the meeting tomorrow is very important.
A. to discuss B. being discussed
C. to be discussed D. will be discussed
25. Since this road is wet and slippery this morning, it __________ last night.
A. must rain B. was raining
C. must have rained D. may rain
26. The mother didn't know __________ to blame for the broken glass as it happened while she was out.
A. who B. when
C. how D. what
27. I believe that every crime, __________ the circumstance, should be severely punished.
A. in spite of B. because of
C. instead of D. on account of
28. The workers are busy __________ models for the exhibition.
A. to make B. with making
C. being making D. making
29. Yesterday Mr. Smith gave a vivid __________ of his recent visit to China.
A. dialogue B. idea
C. tale D. account
30. The definition leaves __________ for disagreement.
A. a small room B. much room
C. great deal room D. not so big a room
31. By the time you arrive this evening, __________ for two hours.
A. I will study B. I will have been studied
C. I had studied D. I will have been studying
32. I would have joined him in a picnic, but I __________ his company.
A. will not like B. don't like
C. had not liked D. might not like
33. Let's finish our homework in a few seconds; it's time we __________.
A. played football B. will play football
C. play football D. are playing football
34. __________ at Harvard, he began again to write his essay.
A. Busy was as he B. Busy as was he
C. Busy as he was D. As was he busy
35. Pierre often makes himself __________ by gesturing with his hands.
A. to understand B. understanding
C. to be understood D. understood
36. The bridge was named __________ the hero who gave his life for the cause of the people.
A. after B. for
C. because of D. before
37. There was a large crowd in the square __________ against the war.
A. protecting B. protesting
C. preventing D. promoting
38. We have __________ to the government for a home improvement loan.
A. arranged B. approached
C. applied D. appointed
39. Tom __________ the shopkeeper with overcharging him for the articles he had bought.
A. accused B. charged
C. blamed D. criticized
40. The idea sounds very good but will it work in __________?
A. practice B. place
C. advance D. company
41. He got a job so that he could be independent __________ his parents.
A. on B. in
C. of D. from
42. We had to wait a long time to get our passports, __________?
A. won't we B. don't we
C. didn't we D. shouldn't you
43. Do you feel like __________ today?
A. having something eaten B. having something to eat
C. to have something eaten D. to have something to eat
44. It's vital that enough money __________ collected to get the project started.
A. is B. be
C. must be D. can be
45. We consider __________the instrument be adjusted each time it is used.
A. that it necessary B. it necessary that
C. necessary that D. necessary of it that
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