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Obesity(肥胖)Causes Global Warming The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing: Last week, obese people were accuse
Obesity(肥胖)Causes Global Warming The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing: Last week, obese people were accuse
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2014-08-13
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Obesity(肥胖)Causes Global Warming
The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing: Last week, obese people were accused of causing global warming.
This【C1】______comes from Sheldon Jacobson of the University, of Illinois, US, and a doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their study【C2】______how much extra gasoline is needed to haul fat Americans around. The answer, they say, is a billion gallons of gas per year. It【C3】______an extra 11 million tons of carbon dioxide.
There have been【C4】______for taxes on junk food in recent years. US economist Martin Schmidt suggests a tax on fast food【C5】______to people ’ s cars. " We tax cigarettes partly because of their health cost, " Schmidt said. "Similarly, leading a lazy lifestyle will end【C6】______costing taxpayers more.
US political scientist Eric Oliver said his first instinct was to laugh at these gas and fast food arguments. But such【C7】______are getting attention.
At the US Obesity Society’ s annual meeting, one person【C8】______obesity with car accident deaths, and another correlated obesity with suicides. No one asked whether there was really a cause-and-effect relationship. "The funny thing was that everyone took it【C9】______, " Oliver said.
In a 1960s study, children were【C10】______drawings of children with disabilities and without them , and a drawing of an obese child. They were asked【C11】______they would want for a friend? The obese child was picked last.
Three researchers recently repeated the study【C12】______college students. Once again, 【C13】______ no one, not even obese people, liked the obese person.
But, researchers say, getting【C14】______is not like quitting smoking. People struggle to stop smoking, and, in the end, many succeed. Obesity is different. Science has shown that they have limited personal control over their weight. Genes also【C15】______a part.
【C13】
选项
A、about
B、as
C、almost
D、like
答案
C
解析
这句话说,再一次,几乎没有一个人,即使是肥胖的人自己电不喜欢和肥胖的人交朋友。almost意思是“几乎”,因此C项符合语境.
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