Fortunately there are still a few tasty things for us gourmands to enjoy in relative security. Their numbers, however, are depleted almost daily. It seems, by ruthless proclamations from the ever-vigilant Food and Drug Administration and its allies, our doctors. The latest felon to face prosecution is the salt of life, sodium chloride.
Ostensibly, overuse of salt muses high blood pressure and hypertension, the cause of half the deaths in the United States every year. A few years ago the anti-salt campaigners raised such a rumpus that salt was banned from baby food. Currently pressure is being applied to food manufacturers to oblige them to label their products to show sodium content. Bemuse doing so would cost mercenary manufacturers money, they argue that they have no idea how much salt remains on such things as potato chips and how much sticks to the bag. Furthermore, salt isn’t the only harmful ingredient in food. If the manufacturer has to provide sodium content
A. We must stop eating salt immediately.
B. She is not convinced that salt is harmful.
C. The Food and Drug Administration works well with doctors.
D. Soon there won’ t be anything tasty left to eat.
Paris: Thanks to a French insurance
company, brides and bridegrooms with cold feet no longer face financial disaster
from a canceled wedding. For a small premium, they can take out a policy
protecting them from love gone away or anything else that threatens to rain on
their big day. Despite France’s economic woes, the amount of money spent on weddings is rising 5-10 per cent a year. And people in the Paris region now dish out an average of 60,000 francs on tying the knot. But life is unpredictable and non-refundable, so French insurers have stepped in to ease the risk, finding their own little niche in the business of love. They join colleagues in Britain, where insurers say wedding cancellation policies have been around for about a decade. About 5 per cent of insured weddings there never make it A. To thank a French insurance company for what has been done. B. To explain how a French insurance company works. C. To tell brides and bridegrooms what to do before getting married. D. To ask husband and wife-to-be to take out an insurance policy. [单项选择]
{{B}}TEXT B{{/B}} The year which preceded my father’s death made great change in my life. I had been living in New Jersey, working defense plants, working and living among southerners, white and black. I knew about the south, of course, and about how southerners treated Negroes and how they expected them to behave, but it had never entered my mind that anyone would look at me and expect me to behave that way. I learned in New Jersey that to be a Negro meant, precisely, that one was never looked at but was simply at the mercy of the reflexes of the color of one’s skin caused in other people. I acted in New Jersey as I had always acted, that is as though I thought a great deal of myself-- I had to act that way -- with results that were, simply, unbelievable. I had scarcely arrived before I had earned the enmity, which was extrodinarily ingenious, of all my superiors and nearly all my co-workers. In the beginning, to make matters worse A. that was a year in which awful things happened to me B. that was a year that I will never even forget C. that was a year that only existed in my mind; but never happened to exist D. that was a year when I lived in New Jersey 我来回答: 提交
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