[填空题]The expression of "Yet houses are still being erected today at vulnerable sites around Vesuvius" is used to show ______.

[填空题]The expression of "Yet houses are still being erected today at vulnerable sites around Vesuvius" is used to show ______.

[简答题]In poor places, forests are still being cut down bemuse people prefer to slash and burn them rather than ______.

[单项选择]The obesity epidemic is being fueled still further by a growing trend among kids to eat out and bring takeout food home, University of North Carolina researchers say. Such foods are high in sugar and calories, and their increasing popularity means youngsters are getting more calories than they need, the researchers noted.
Since 1994, this trend has been growing rapidly and reflects the availability of fast food restaurants and foods prepared in supermarkets and other food stores, the researchers say. In fact, calories eaten away from home increased from 23.4% to 33.9% between 1977 and 2006.
"We found that kids eat a relatively maintained level of calories at home, but in addition kids also eat an increasing number of calories outside the home," says study author Jennifer Poti, from the university’s Gillings School of Global Public Health. "Eating outside the home is actually fueling the increased energy intake for kids." Poti says much of the foods children eat outside
A. A．1) means______. malnutritionB. overweightC. high-calorieD. diet

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[A] Yet thieves still reap a rich harvest. Inadequate protection of U. S. patents, trademarks and copyrights costs the U. S. economy $ 80 billion in sales lost to pirates and 250,000 jobs every year, according to Gary Hoffman, an intellectual property attorney at Dickstein, Shapiro & Morin in Washington. The computer industry loses upwards of $ 4 billion of revenues a year to illegal copying of software programs. Piracy of movies, books and recordings costs the entertainment business at least $ 4 billion annually.
[B] With intellectual property now accounting for more than 25% of U.S. exports (compared with just 12% eight years ago), protection against international piracy ranks high on the Bush Administration’s trade agenda. The U. S. International Trade Commission, the federal agency that deals with unfair-trade complaints by American companies, is handling a record number of cases (38 last year), Says ITC Chairman Anne Brunsdale: "Conceptual property has