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翻译专业资格考试（二级笔译实务）模拟试题及答案（四） 英译汉 Practice 1 When it comes to food, America is not just the fattest country on earth but probably the most schizophrenic as well-home to the Big Mac and Weight Watchers, the super model and the couch potato. The love-hate relationship with food was examined in the aired documentary Fat, and if there is any comfort for the more than 90 million overweight Americans its that the rest of the world is also getting fatter. There is an enormous pressure on people to be thin and to be physically fit but at the same time there is a tremendous pressure and inducement to eat, Dr. Kelly Brownell, professor of psychology at Yale University and a participant in the program, said in an interview. Youll see a Baskin Robbins next to Weight Watchers. Youll see a Family Circle magazine with a delicious chocolate on the cover beside a diet article, said Brownell. At the same time as we have record levels of obesity, we have record levels of eating disorders6 too, he said. The desire to eat fatty food came from a primitive survival instinct to store enough energy in good times to ensure survival when food was scarce. But in a modem urban society, where fast food chains appear on almost every block, the instinct to eat fat has begun to work against us. The documentary claims that nowhere is the exposure to junk food more prevalent than in the United States, where the problem has been compounded by the increasingly sedentary modem lifestyle. It also says that members of Arizonas Pima Indian tribe are the fattest people in the fattest country on earth. Until recently the tribe lived a simple life, but in 1984 when the tribe won a gaming license it joined the American mainstream. Today the tribe is plagued by obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease. Just 800 kms south in Mexico, another branch of the Pima tribe continues to live a traditional life and eats a traditional diet. These Pimas have none of the problems of their American counterparts