Imagine eating everything delicious you want with none of the fat. That would be great, wouldn’t it
New "fake fat" products appeared on store shelves in the United States recently, but not everyone is happy about it. Makers of the products, which contain a compound called olestra, say food manufacturers can now eliminate fat from certain foods. Critics, however, say the new compound can rob the body of essential vitamins and nutrients and also cause unpleasant side effects in some people. So it’s up to consumers to decide whether the new fat-free products taste good enough to keep eating.
Chemists discovered olestra in the late 1960s, when they were searching for a fat that could be digested by infants more easily. Instead of finding the desired fat, the researchers created a fat that can’t be digested at all.
Normally, special chemicals in the intestines (肠道) "grab" molecules of regular fat and break them down so they
A. People may be induced to eat more than is necessary.
B. It may trigger a new wave of fake food production.
C. It may lead to the over-consumption of vitamins.
D. The function of the intestines may be weakened.
Many people invest in the stock market hoping to find the next Microsoft and Dell. However, I know (1) personal experience how difficult this really is. For more than a year, I waw (2) hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a day investing in the market. It seemed so easy, I dreamed of (3) my job at the end of the year, of buying a small apartment in Paris, of traveling around the world. But these dreams (4) to a sudden and dramatic end when a stock I (5) , Texas cellular pone wholesaler, fell by more than 75 percent (6) a one year period. On the (7) day, it plunged by more than $ 15 a share. There was a rumor the company was (8) sales figures. That was when I leamed how quickly Wall street (9) companies that misrepresent the (10) .
In a (11) , I sold all my stock in the company, paying (12) margin debt with cash advances from my (13) card. Because I owned so many shares, I
A. despair
B. worry
C. panic
D. moment
What is it about Paris For the last two centuries it has been the single most visited city in the world. Tourists still go for the art and the food, even if they have to brave the disdain of ticket-takers and waiters. Revolutionaries on the run, artists in search of the galleries and writers looking for the license to explore their inner selves went looking for people like themselves and created their own fields filled with experimentation and constant arguments. Would worldwide communist revolution have been conceivable without the Paris that was home to Marx, Lenin and Ho Chi Minh Would Impressionism or Cubism have become "isms" without Paris as a place to work and as a subject to paint How Paris came to be, for such a long time, "capital of the world"
The answer lies in the city’s "myths" according to the distinguished Harvard historian Patrice Higonnet in "Paris: Capital of the World. " In his book, Paris came to stand for
A. 1925
B. 1935
C. 1945
D. 1955
M: What are you doing, Mary
W: I am cooking dinner.
M: Look! The Capital Building caught on fire today.
W: What How about the people in the building
M: More than 220 people were killed and the building was destroyed.
W: It must have taken the fire fighters a long time to put it out.
M: Yes, they spent about five hours putting it out. Hmm, what a strange smell!
W: Oh, I forget the food cooking on the fire!
M: Be quick! Turn the gas off. You should be careful next time, otherwise, you’d have our house on fire!
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