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Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C)and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.

 

Passage One
Questions 46 to 50 are based on the following passage.

Sugar shocked. That describes the reaction of many Americans this week following revelations that, 50 years ago, the sugar industry paid Harvard scientists for research that shifted the focus away from sugar’s role in heart disease—and put the spotlight(注意的中心) squarely on dietary fat.
What might surprise consumers is just how many present-day nutrition studies are still funded by the food industry. Nutrition scholar Marion Nestle of New York University spent a year informally tracking industry-funded studies on food. “Roughly 90% of nearly 170 studies favored the sponsor’s interest,” Nestle tells us. Other systematic reviews support her conclusions.
For instance, studies funded by Welch Foods—the brand behind Welch’s 100% Grape Juice—found that drinking Concord grape juice daily may boost brain function. Another, funded by Quaker Oats, concluded, as a Daily Mail story put it, that “hot oatmeal(燕麦粥) breakfast keeps you full for longer.”
Last year, The New York Times revealed how Coca-Cola was funding well-known scientists and organizations promoting a message that, in the battle against weight gain, people should pay more attention to exercise and less to what they eat and drink. Coca-Cola also released data detailing its funding of several medical institutions and associations between 2010 and 2015.
“It’s certainly a problem that so much research in nutrition and health is funded by industry,” says Bonnie Liebman, director of nutrition at the Center for Science in the Public Interest. “When the food industry pays for research, it often gets what it pays for.” And what it pays for is often a pro-industry finding.
Given this environment, consumers should be skeptical(怀疑的) when reading the latest finding in nutrition science and ignore the latest study that pops up on your news feed. “Rely on health experts who’ve reviewed all the evidence,” Liebman says, pointing to the official government Dietary Guidelines, which are based on reviews of hundreds of studies.
“And that expert advice remains pretty simple,” says Nestle. “We know what healthy diets are—lots of vegetables, not too much junk food, balanced calories. Everything else is really difficult to do experimentally.”

糖让人震惊。本周,许多美国人在得知了内情之后就是这个反应,披露的内情即, 46  在50年前,制糖业付费请哈佛的科学家做了一项研究,该研究将人们的关注点从糖对心脏病的影响转移开,并将注意的中心全然放在了膳食脂肪上。
可能令消费者惊讶的是,当今到底有多少营养方面的研究仍然由食品行业资助。纽约大学的营养学者玛丽昂·内斯特尔花了一年的时间非正式地追踪调查由食品行业资助的食品方面的研究。“ 47  在将近170项研究中,大约有90%是有利于赞助商的利益的。”内斯特尔告诉我们。其他系统综述也支持她的结论。
例如,由韦尔奇食品公司——韦尔奇100%葡萄汁所属的品牌——资助的研究发现,每天喝康科德葡萄汁可以增强大脑功能。另一项由桂格麦片公司资助的研究得出结论,正如《每日邮报》中的一篇报道所说的:“热的燕麦粥早餐可以让你的饱腹感持续更久。”
 48  去年,《纽约时报》披露了可口可乐公司如何资助知名的科学家和机构组织,宣传这样一个信息:在减肥的斗争中,人们应该更加注意锻炼,而少关注一些他们的饮食。可口可乐公司也发布了数据,详细说明了2010年至2015年间它对几家医疗机构和协会的资助。
 49  公共利益科学中心的营养学主任邦妮·利布曼说:“这么多营养健康方面的研究由行业资助,这肯定是一个问题。当食品行业资助研究时,它得到的结果通常是它花钱买到的。”而它花钱买到的结果通常是一个有利于食品行业的发现。
 50  考虑到这种环境,消费者在读到营养科学的最新发现时应该持怀疑态度,并且忽略“新闻递送”弹出的最新研究。“要信赖仔细研究过所有证据的健康专家。”利布曼一边说,一边指着官方政府发布的“膳食指南”,该指南是基于对数百项研究的审查而给出的。
“而且专家的建议仍然非常简单,”内斯特尔说。“我们知道什么是健康饮食——多吃蔬菜,不要吃太多垃圾食品,卡路里要均衡。其他的一切确实都很难通过实验来验证。”

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46.

What did Harvard scientists do 50 years ago?

  1. They raised public awareness of the possible causes of heart disease.

  2. They turned public attention away from the health risks of sugar to fat.

  3. They placed the sugar industry in the spotlight with their new findings.

  4. They conducted large-scale research on the role of sugar in people’s health.

46. 哈佛的科学家50年前做了什么?

A) 他们提高了公众对心脏病的可能致病原因的认识。

B) 他们将公众的注意力从糖造成的健康风险转移到脂肪上。

C) 他们通过自己的新发现使制糖业成为人们关注的焦点。

D) 关于糖对人们健康的影响,他们进行了大规模的研究。

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47.

What does Marion Nestle say about present-day nutrition studies?

  1. They took her a full year to track and analyze.

  2. Most of them are based on systematic reviews.

  3. They depend on funding from the food industries.

  4. Nearly all of them serve the purpose of the funders.

47. 关于当今营养方面的研究,玛丽昂·内斯特尔说了什么?

A) 它们花了她整整一年的时间来追踪和分析。

B) 它们多数是基于系统综述的。

C) 它们依赖食品行业的资助。

D) 它们几乎都为资助者的目的服务。

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48.

What did Coca-Cola-funded studies claim?

  1. Exercise is more important to good health than diet.

  2. Choosing what to eat and drink is key to weight control.

  3. Drinking Coca-Cola does not contribute to weight gain.

  4. The food industry plays a major role in fighting obesity.

48. 可口可乐公司赞助的研究声称什么?

A) 对身体健康来说,运动比饮食更重要。

B) 选择吃什么和喝什么是控制体重的关键。

C) 喝可口可乐不会长胖。

D) 食品行业在对抗肥胖方面发挥着重要作用。

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49.

What does Liebman say about industry-funded research?

  1. It simply focuses on nutrition and health.

  2. It causes confusion among consumers.

  3. It rarely results in objective findings.

  4. It runs counter to the public interest.

49. 关于由行业资助的研究,利布曼说了什么?

A) 它只关注营养和健康。

B) 它给消费者带来困惑。

C) 它很少产生客观的发现。

D) 它违背公众利益。

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50.

What is the author’s advice to consumers?

  1. Follow their intuition in deciding what to eat.

  2. Be doubtful of diet experts’ recommendations.

  3. Ignore irrelevant information on their news feed.

  4. Think twice about new nutrition research findings.

50. 作者对消费者的建议是什么?

A) 在决定吃什么的时候,跟随他们的直觉。

B) 对于饮食专家的建议要持怀疑态度。

C) 忽略“新闻递送”推送的不相关信息。

D) 对于营养方面新的研究发现要三思。


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