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VIII. Reading comprehension（阅读理解）：（共56分） A. True or False.(判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示)： （共分）’t have enough to eat. The number of obese people is now more than 300 million. “ Obese” means over 15 kilos heavier than you should be. However, there are also 800 million people in the world who don’t have enough to eat. Professor Popkin said that the number of hungry people is falling down but the number of overweight people is rising fast. The main reasons for this are: 穚eople are doing less hard physical work 穖ore people now eat too much fatty food 穞oo many people are driving cars instead of walking 穚eople spend too much time in front of a television The United States has the highest rate of obesity in the developed world and Japan has the lowest. Professor Benjamin Senauern is certain of the reasons of this. “Japanese people are fit. They use public transport and walk,” he said. “The average American drives to work and drives to the supermarket. When he gets home, he sits on a sofa in front of the TV and eats junk food.” In Britain and many other European countries, there are three times as many obese people as there were 20 years ago. About two-thirds of British adults are on overweight or obese. “The effects of this are clear,” said London doctor Elena Power. “We have more illnesses related to weight and fewer fit people.” China used to be one of the slimmest nations in the world. However, Professor Wu Yangfeng from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Beijing recently estimated(估计) that 20 percent of the world’s overweight people live in China. The Chinese government is especially worried about the increase in obesity among school children. “We have a serious problem,” said Professor Wu. “It requires an improvement from everyone, or it will get worse.” 71. The number of people who don’t have enough to eat is now higher than the number of overweight people. 72. “Obese” means that you are more than 15 kilos overweight. 73. There are at least four r