Passage Two
Too much eating. Too many unhealthy foods. Too many advertisements for food. Too little activity.
Different explanations are offered for America’s weight problem--a problem increasingly shared by other countries. Almost one-fifth of American children and teenagers are overweight.
Schools have been urged to increase physical education, an important tool for public health. And many have. Yet now comes a study showing an increase in the number of injuries in physical education class. Injuries increased 150% between 1997 and 2007.
he study involved injuries treated in hospital emergency departments. Only 2% were serious. The researchers did not try to identify the causes of the increase, but they have some theories.
Lara McKenzie from Ohio State University was the lead researcher. She says one possibility is a decrease in the number of school nurses during the period they studied. For example, a 2004 study sho
A. not common outside the United States of America
B. also a headache in other countries
C. caused by too many advertisements for food
D. neglected in many countries
M: How long can I keep this book
W: For two weeks.
"With two friends I started a journey
to Greece, the most horrendous of all journeys. It had all the details of a
nightmare: barefoot walking in rough roads, risking death in the dark, police
dogs hunting us, drinking water from the rain pools in the road and a rude
awakening at gunpoint from the police under a bridge. My parents were terrified
and decided that it would be better to pay someone to hide me in the back of a
car." This 16-year-old Albanian high-school drop-out, desperate to leave his impoverished country for the nirvana of clearing tables in an Athens restaurant, might equally well have been a Mexican heading for Texas or an Algerian youngster sneaking into France. He had the misfortune to be born on the wrong side of a line that now divides the world: the line between those whose passports allow them to move and s A. the extreme poverty of his country B. the terrible picture of illegal migration C. the strong desire of poor people to leave for rich countries D. the difficulty in a long cross-border journey [填空题]My hair is too long. I want to have it (cut) ______.
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