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答案： 2012在职英语专业教育硕士----英语II 复习材料4 I. Reading ComprehensionPassage One Children are getting so fat they may be the first generation to die before their parents, an expert claimed yesterday. Today’s youngsters are already = 2 \* GB3 ②falling prey to成为猎物potential killers such as diabetes(糖尿病) because of their weight. Fatty fast-food diets combined with sedentary长坐lifestyles dominated支配 by televisions and computers could mean kids = 1 \* GB3 ①will die tragically young, says Professor Andrew Prentice, from the London School of Hygiene卫生 and Tropical热带 Medicine.　　 At the same time, the shape of the human body is going through a huge evolutionary shift because adults are getting so fat. Here in Britain, latest research shows that the average waist size for a man is 36-38in, and may be 42-44, by 2032. This compares with形成对比 only 32.6in. in 1972. Women’s waists have grown from an average of 22in. in 1920 to 24in. in the Fifties and 30in. now. One of the major reasons why children now are at greater risk is that we are getting fatter younger.　　In the UK alone, more than one million under-16s are classed as = 3 \* GB3 ③overweight or obese(过度肥胖的)— double the number in the mid Eighties. One in ten four-year-olds are also medically classified as obese.　　The obesity(肥胖症) pandemic（传染爆发）—an extensive大规模 epidemic（流行病）— which = 4 \* GB3 ④started in the US, has now spread to Europe, Australasia澳、新、南太等地, Central America and the Middle East. Many nations now record more than 20 per cent of their population as clinically obese and well over half the population as overweight.　　 Prof. Prentice said the change in our shape has been caused by an oversupply of easily available high-energy foods combined with a dramatic引人注目 drop in the energy we use as a result of technology developments.　　 He is not alone in his concern. Only last week one medical journal revealed how obesity was fueling激起 a rise in cancer cases. Obesity also increases the risk factor for strokes脑血管破裂或阻塞；中风