月英语四级考试真题第套.docxVIP

2014年12月四级真题（第1套）注意：此部分试题请在答题卡1上作答。Section BDirections: In this section, you are going to read a passage with ten statements attached to it. Eachstatement contains information given in one of the paragraphs. Identify the paragraph fromwhich the information is derived. You may choose a paragraph more than once. Eachparagraph is marked with a letter. Answer the questions by marking the correspondingletter on Answer Sheet 2.Ban sugary drinks--that will add fuel to the obesity war[A] On a train last Thursday, I sat opposite a man who was so fat he filled more than one seat. Hewas pale and disfigured and looked sick to death, which he probably was: obesity (肥胖症) leads tomany nasty ways of dying. Looking around the carriage, I saw quite a few people like him, includinga couple of fatty children with swollen cheeks pressing against their eyes. These people are part ofwhat is without exaggeration an epidemic (流行病) of obesity.[B] But it is quite unnecessary: there is a simple idea--far from new--that could spare millions of suchpeople a lifetime of chronic (长期病 ) ill health, and at the same time save the National HealthService (NHS) at least ￡14 billion a year in England and Wales. There would, you might think, beconsiderable public interest in it. This simple idea is that sugar is as good--or as bad--as poisonand should be avoided. It is pure, white and deadly, as Professor John Yudkin described it 40 yearsago in a revolutionary book of that name. The subtitle was How Sugar Is Killing Us.[C] In its countless hidden forms, in ready meals, junk food and sweet drinks, sugar leads to addiction(瘾), to hormonal upsets to the appetite, to metabolic (新陈代谢的) maffunctions and obesity andfrom there to type 2 d/abetes (糖尿病) and its many horrible complications, ff people really graspedthat, they would try to kick the habit, particularly as Britain is the fat man of Europe. They mighteven feel driven to support government measures to prevent people from consuming this deadlystuff. Yet so