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[2019·河南扶沟二高高一段考]The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and the environment.These findings come from a new report in the journal Nature.
David Tillman, a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota, America, examined the information from 100 countries to identify what people ate and how diet affected health.He noted a movement beginning in the 1960s.He found that as nations industrialized(工业化), population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt what had been called the Western diet.
The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat.By eating these foods, people begin to get fatter and sicker.David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for noninfectious diseases like diabetes(糖尿病) and heart disease.
Unfortunately when people become industrialized if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these health problems, especially in developing countries in Asia.China is an example where the number of diabetes cases has been jumping from less than one percent to ten percent of the population as they began to industrialize over a 20year period.And that is happening all across the world, in Mexico, in Nigeria and so on.
And, a diet bad for human beings is also bad for the environment.As the world's population grows, more forests and tropical(热带的) areas will become farmland for crops or grasslands for cattle.We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all forms of transportation right now.
Mr.Tillman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, “a trilemma” (三难问题) —a problem offering a difficult choice.He says one possible settlement is leaving the Western diet behind.
【语篇解读】 主题：人与自我(生活)；话题：西方饮食。本文是一篇说明文，主要介绍了一项研究。这项研究发现西方饮食对健康和环境都有害。
21．According to the passage, more greenhouse gas might be given off in the future from ________.
A．transportation B．developing countries
C．agriculture D．developed countries
答案与解析：C 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段中的“We are likely to have more greenhouse gas in the future from agriculture than that coming out of all forms of transportation right now.”知答案为C。
22．What does David Tillman believe?
A．Diet, the environment and human health are closely connected.
B．The Western diet is the only choice as the nation industrializes.
C．People in tropical areas are more likely to have heart disease.
D．The traditional diet is more balanced than the Western diet.
答案与解析：A 推理判断题。根据最后一段的第一句“Mr.Tillman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, ‘a trilemma’—a problem offering a difficult choice.”可知三者是密切相关的，故答案为A。
23．What can we infer from the passage?
A．Nigeria has the largest number of diabetes cases.
B．Overweight people are at higher risk of infectious diseases.
C．The examined information comes from developing countries.
D．Industrialization contributes to the spread of the Western diet.
答案与解析：D 推理判断题。根据第二段的最后一句“He found that as nations industrialized, population increased and earnings rose, more people began to adopt what had been called the Western diet.”知答案为D。
