1、王长喜四级考前冲刺试题一四级考前冲刺试题一Part I Writing (30 minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of Is Offering Seats Compulsory for Young Passengers? You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below.1. 有人认为公交车上年轻人必须给老人让座2. 有人认为年轻人没有义务
2、给老人让座3. 你的看法Is Offering Seats Compulsory for Young Passengers?_Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes)Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer fro
3、m the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Eat an Apple (Doctors Orders)The farm stand is becoming the new apothecary (药剂师), preparing and giving out apples not to mention vegetables such as artichokes, asparagus
4、and arugula to fill a novel kind of prescription.Doctors at three health centers in Massachusetts have begun advising patients to eat “prescription produce” from local farmers markets, in an effort to fight obesity (when someone is very fat in a way that is unhealthy) in children of low-income famil
5、ies. Now they will give coupons (赠券) amounting to $1 a day for each member of a patients family to promote healthy meals. “A lot of these kids have a very limited range of fruits and vegetables that are acceptable and familiar to them. Potentially, they will try more,” said Dr. Suki Tepperberg, a fa
6、mily physician at Codman Square Health Center in Dorchester, one of the program sites. “The goal is to get them to increase their consumption of fruit and vegetables by one serving a day.”The effort may also help farmers markets compete with fast-food restaurants selling dollar value meals. Farmers
7、markets do more than $1 billion in annual sales in the United States, according to the Agriculture Department.Massachusetts was one of the first states to promote these markets as hubs of preventive health. In the 1980s, for example, the state began issuing coupons for farmers markets to low-income
8、women who were pregnant or breast-feeding or for young children at risk for malnutrition (营养不良). Thirty-six states now have such farmers market nutrition programs aimed at women and young children.Thomas M. Menino, the mayor of Boston, said he believed the new childrens program, in which doctors wri
9、te vegetable “prescriptions” to be filled at farmers markets, was the first of its kind. Doctors will track participants to determine how the program affects their eating patterns and to monitor health indicators like weight and body mass index, he said. “When I go to work in the morning, I see kids
10、 standing at the bus stop eating chips and drinking a soda,” Mr. Menino said in a phone interview earlier this week. “I hope this will help them change their eating habits and lead to a healthier lifestyle.” The mayors attention to healthy eating dates to his days as a city councilman. Most recently
11、 he has appointed a well-known chef as a food policy director to promote local foods in public schools and to foster market gardens in the city. Although obesity is a complex problem unlikely to be solved just by eating more vegetables, supporters of the vegetable coupon program hope that physician
12、intervention will spur young people to adopt the kind of behavioral changes that can help prevent lifelong obesity.Childhood obesity in the United States costs $14.1 billion annually in direct health expenses like prescription drugs and visits to doctors and emergency rooms, according to a recent ar
13、ticle on the economics of childhood obesity published in the journal Health Affairs. Treating obesity-related illness in adults costs an estimated $147 billion annually, the article said. Although the vegetable prescription pilot project is small, its supporters see it as a model for encouraging obe
14、se children and their families to increase the volume and variety of fresh produce they eat. “Can we help people in low-income areas, who shop in the center of supermarkets for low-cost empty-calorie food, to shop at farmers markets by making fruit and vegetables more affordable?” said Gus Schumache
15、r, the chairman of Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit group in Bridgeport, Conn., that supports family farmers and community access to locally grown produce. If the pilot project is successful, Mr. Schumacher said, “farmers markets would become like a fruit and vegetable pharmacy (药房) for at-risk families.
16、” The pilot project plans to enroll up to 50 families of four at three health centers in Massachusetts that already have specialized childrens programs called healthy weight clinics. A foundation called CAVU, for Ceiling and Visibility Unlimited, sponsors the clinics that are administering the veget
17、able project. The Massachusetts Department of Agriculture and Wholesome Wave each contributed $10,000 in seed money. (Another arm of the program, at several health centers in Maine, is giving fresh produce coupons to pregnant mothers.) The program is to run until the end of the farmers market season
18、 in late fall. One month after Leslie-Ann Ogiste, a certified nursing assistant in Boston, and her 9-year-old son, Makael Constance, received their first vegetable prescription coupons at the Codman Center, they have lost a combined four pounds, she said. A staff member at the center told Ms. Ogiste
19、 about a farmers market that is five minutes from her apartment, she said. “It worked wonders,” said Ms. Ogiste, who bought and prepared eggplant, cucumbers, tomatoes, summer squash, corn, bok choy, parsley, carrots and red onions. “Just the variety, it did help.” Ms. Ogiste said she had minced some
20、 vegetables and used them in soup, pasta sauce and rice dishes the better to disguise the new good-for-you foods that she served her son. Makael said he did not mind. “Its really good,” he said. Some nutrition researchers said that the Massachusetts project had a good chance of improving eating habi
21、ts in the short term. But, they added, a vegetable prescription program in isolation may not have a long-term influence on reducing obesity. Families may revert to their former habits in the winter when the farmers markets are closed, these researchers said, or they may not be able to afford fresh p
22、roduce after the voucher program ends. Dr. Shikha Anand, the medical director of CAVUs healthy weight initiative, said the group hoped to make the veggie prescription project a year-round program through partnerships with grocery stores. But people tend to overeat junk food in higher proportion than
23、 they undereat vegetables, said Dr. Deborah A. Cohen, a senior natural scientist at the RAND Corporation. So, unless people curtail (减少) excessive consumption of salty and sugary snacks, she said, behavioral changes like eating more fruit and vegetables will have limited effect on obesity.In a recen
24、t study led by Dr. Cohen, for example, people in southern Louisiana typically exceeded guidelines for eating salty and sugary foods by 120 percent in the course of a day while falling short of vegetable and fruit consumption by 20 percent. The weight clinics in Massachusetts chosen for the vegetable
25、 prescription test project already encourage families to cut down on unhealthy snacks. Even as Ms. Ogiste and her son started shopping at the farmers market and eating more fresh produce, for example, they also cut back on junk food, she said. “We have stopped the snacks. We are drinking more water
26、and less soda and less juice too,” Ms. Ogiste said. “All of that helped.”1. Dr. Suki Tepperberg suggested that many overweight children .A) have consumed too much meat B) dislike fruits and vegetables by natureC) mainly come from wealthy families D) will have more vegetables if provided2. Besides po
27、or obese children, the vegetable “prescription” program is also helpful for .A) doctors at the health centers B) farmers in the local marketC) restaurants serving fast food D) manufactures providing concerned medicine 3. In the new childrens program, what doctors need to do is .A) evaluating the eff
28、ect of the program B) writing prescriptions at a farm standC) giving vegetable coupons to farmers D) developing novel medicine to fight obesity4. According to the phone interview, why did Thomas M. Menino support the current farmers market nutrition programs?A) He hoped to promote local foods in the whole cit
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