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补全短文 Crop Circle Mysteries ?They are giant geometric patterns, which appear over-night in a field of crops. Many people　believe that they are made by aliens.(1) Others call them hoaxes. Crop circle, as the mysterious patterns　are called, became a hot phrase this month. (2)A strange pattern 360 feet (110 meters) in diameter was discovered earlier this month in a wheat field in Oxfordshire, England. Its believed to be the worlds first three-dimensional crop circle１.The　giant crop circle gives an impression of looking down on skyscrapers from above. 　　　(3) The designs discovery immediately generated a new tide of public interest in this mysterious phenomenon. Crop circles were first widely noticed in the late 1970s as many mysterious circles began appearing-in crop fields throughout the English countryside. People were intrigued by these giant patterns. They were huge (at least tens of meters in diameters) and popped up over-night2.?(4) No one knew how or by whom they were made. Various scientific and pseudo-scientific explanations were put forward to explain the phenomenon. Some hold that they were left by alien spaceships. Others say that they are simply an elaborate prank3. (5) But rather than discovering the truth, people saw increasingly complicated circles appear worldwide. To date, thousands of circles have been discovered all over the globe, from the former Soviet Union to Japan to Canada. ? 第十二 Obesity Causes Global Warming The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing: Last week, obese people were accused of causing global warming. This conclusion comes from Sheldon Jacobson of the University of Illinois, US, and a doctoral student, Laura McLay. Their study calculates how much extra gasoline is needed to haul fat Americans around. The answer, they say, is a billion gallons of gas per year. It means an extra 11 million tons of carbon dioxide1. There has been calls for taxes on junk food2 in recent years（2) US economist Martin Schmidt suggests a ta