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[单项选择]Fast food, a mainstay of American eating for decades, may have reached a plateau in the United States as the maturing baby-boom generation looks for a more varied menu. Fast foxed still represents a $102 billion a year industry, but growth has turned sluggish recently amid tough competition from retail food stores and a more affluent population willing to try new things and spend more, analysts say. Signs of trouble in fast food include price-cutting by industry leaders, including efforts by McDonald’s to attract customers with a 55 cent hamburger, and major players pulling out or selling. O’Pepsico, for example, is selling its fast-food restaurant division that includes Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC.
"It’s becoming harder and harder for these firms to grow," said Jim Brown, a professor of marketing at Virginia Tech University. "I think in the United States fast food has reached a saturation (饱和) point because of the number of competitors and the number of outlets."
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A. Fast food disappoints consumers.
B. People prefer less expensive food.
C. McDonald’s dominates the market of fast food.
D. Fast food is losing its attraction.
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D Fast food has been a mainstay of American eating for decades. It may have reached a plateau in the United States as the maturing baby-boom generation looks for a more varied menu. Fast food still represents a $102 billion-a-year industry, but growth has turned sluggish recently amid tough competition from retail food stores and a more affluent population willing to try new things and spend more, analysts say. Signs of trouble in fast food include price-cutting by industry leaders, including efforts by McDonald’s to attract customers with a 55-cent hamburger, and major players pulling out or selling. O’Pepsico, for example, is selling its last-food restaurant division that includes Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC. "It’s becoming harder and harder for these firms to grow," said Jim Brown, a professor of marketing at Virginia Tech University. "I think in the United States fast food has reached a saturation point because of the number of competitors
A. US fast food industry is growing rapidly.
B. US fast food industry is now in the slow lane.
C. McDonald’s plays an important part in American fast food industry.
D. McDonald’s replaced the leader in time to regain its lost market share.
[单项选择]Many studies have proven that eating at fast-food restaurants ______ per week is associated with more weight gain in otherwise healthy young adults.
A. twice more
B. as twice
C. twice more than
D. more than twice
[多项选择]Will Fast Food Replace Traditional Food
In the first part of your writing you should present your thesis statement, and in the second part you should support the thesis statement with appropriate details. In the last part you should bring what you have written to a natural conclusion or a summary.
Marks will be awarded for content, organization, grammar and appropriateness. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Write your composition on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
[填空题]The food in a fast food restaurant is (expensive) ______ than that in a hotel.
[单项选择]Why does the woman like fast food
[简答题]Signs of American culture, ranging from fast food to Hollywood movies, can be seen around the world. But now anthropologists have discovered a far more troubling cultural export from the United States—stigma against fat people.
Negative perceptions about people who are overweight are becoming the cultural norm in many countries, according to a new report in the journal Current Anthropology. (47) Although some of the shift in thinking likely is explained by idealized slim body images promoted in American advertising and Hollywood movies, the emergence of fat stigma around the world may also result from public health efforts to promote obesity as a disease and a worrisome threat to a nation’s health.
Researchers from Arizona State University Dr. Brewis and her colleagues recently completed a multicountry study intended to give a snapshot of the international zeitgeist about weight and body image. (48) The researchers elicited answers of true or false t