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For much of the past decade, American and British scientists have been annoyed by the phenomenon known as the French Paradox. Nu

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问题     For much of the past decade, American and British scientists have been annoyed by the phenomenon known as the French Paradox. Nutritionally speaking, the French have been getting away with murder: They eat all the butter, cream, foie gras, pastry and cheese that their hearts desire, and yet their rates of obesity and heart disease are much lower than ours. Then French eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do, and only a third as many die of heart attacks. It’s maddening.
    Baffled, scientists struggled to come up with a few hypotheses: Maybe it was something in the red wine, they said. But while winemakers worldwide celebrated the news, sober research has suggested that any alcohol—whether Lafite Rothschild, a banana daiquiri or a cold Bud—pretty much has the same nice, relaxing effect. So while a little wine is apt to do you good, the French aren’t so special in having a drink now and then (though the fact that they drink wine moderately and slowly with meals, instead of downing shots at the bar, could make a difference).
    After the wine argument, scientists ventured that it must be the olive oil that keeps the French healthy. But this does not explain the butter or brie. Then, French Scientists Serge Renaud (made famous on "60 Minutes" as an expert on the French Paradox) said it’s the foie gras that melts away cholesterol. This, too, is dicey: While people in Toulous—the fattened forced-fed duck-liver-eating area of France—do indeed have one of the lowest rates of heart disease in the developed world, they actually only eat the delicacy about six times a year. And they’re a lot more likely to die of stroke than we are anyway.
    Other researchers, perhaps sponsored by the garlic and onion industry, suggested that the French Paradox effect is due to garlic and onions. Claude Fischler, a nutritional sociologist at INSERM, the French equivalent of America’s National Institutes of health, says all these single hypotheses are wishful thinking than science.
    Last May, researchers writing in the British Medical Journal came up with the least cheerful hypothesis of all. They argued that it’s just a matter of time before the French—who are in fact eating more hamburgers and French fries these days—catch up with Americans, and begin suffering the same high rates of cardiovascular disease.
    These researchers, Malcolm Law and Nicholas Wald, call this the "time large explanation" for the French Paradox. As far as they are concerned, the McDonaldization (this is a French catch—all terms for the importation of fast food and other American cultural horrors) of France will continue at a frantic pace, and it is as inevitable that Frenchmen will start keeling over of heart attacks as it is that French women will eventually wear jean shorts and marshmallow tennis shoes on the streets of Paris.
What can be learned from the passage?
选项 A、The French drink as much wine as the people elsewhere.
B、The French wine has different relaxing effect to any other wine.
C、Drinking wine will benefit people.
D、The French drink wine in different ways from people of other countries.
答案D
解析 本题题干没有关键词，属于全文细节题，需根据选项关键词定位到第二段。第二段段尾指出，法国人适量地、慢慢地饮酒(moderately and slowly)，而不是在酒吧大口大口地喝酒，这一点意义非凡(make a difference)。由此可以推断，法国人的饮酒方式有特点，与其他国家的饮酒方式不同，所以选项D与原文属于相同含义，为正确答案。选项A属于无中生有，文中并没有比较法国人和其他地方人的饮酒量的区别。选项B属于正反混淆，根据第二段第二句，有人说“法国怪事”是因为红酒的缘故，但后来的调查显示，所有的酒都有相同的效果(the same nice，relaxing effect)。选项C属于扩大范围，第二段第三句说喝一点葡萄酒使人受益(a little wine is apt to do，you good)，没有说多喝少喝都能受益。第二段：科学家提出红葡萄酒可以使人受益的假设。
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