【正文】 d ones may face like housing and child care. “No one tells kids about moneymanaging problems,” says Adam. Each student should act out in ten weeks what normally takes couples ten years to finish. In the first week, one member of each couple is asked to get an after school job — a real one. During the term, the ine rules their lifestyle. In the third week, the couples must find an apartment they can afford. In the fifth week, the couples “have a baby” and then struggle to cover the costs of baby clothes and furniture. In week eight, the marriage es to the breaking point by such disaster as a motherinlaw’s moving in or death. It’s all over by week ten (the tenth year of marriage). After serious discussion with lawyers about alimony (贍養(yǎng)費 ) and child support, the students get divorced (離婚 ) . Adam’s course, which has “married” 1,000 students since its beginning six years ago, is widely supported by parents and students. Some of the students have found the experience making them realize their real life marry plans are wrong. Marianne Baldrica, 16, who tried “marriage” last term with her boyfriend Eric Zook, 15, said, “ Eric a nd I used to get along pretty well before we took the course together. But I wanted to live in the city, he wanted the country. He wanted lots of kids, I wanted no kids. It’s been four weeks since the course ended and Eric and I are just starting to talk to each other again.” 25. What is the aim of Adam’s course? A. To tell students how to find a good partner. B. To teach students how to manage their money. C. To help students act as wives and husbands well. D. To show students the problems in real marriage life. 26. What will happen in the eighth week? A. The couples will have a baby. B. The couples will have to find a flat. C. The husband will have to find a real job. D. The marriage will e to the breaking point. 27. After taking the course, Marianne will ______ . A. choose to live in the country B. break up with her boyfriend at once C. ask their teachers and parents for help D. have a better understanding of marriage 28. Where does the text probably e from? A. A science book. B. A library guide. C. A newspaper report. D. A project handbook. C The spread of Western eating habits around the world is bad for human health and for the environment. Those findings e from a new report in the journal Nature. David Tilman is a professor at the University of Minnesota. In the study, he examined information from 100 nations to show what people ate and how diet affected health. Mr. Tilman noted a movement beginning in the 1960s. He found that as nations industrialized(工業(yè)化 ), population increased and earnings rose. More people began to adopt what has been called the Western diet. The Western diet is high in sugar, fat, oil and meat. By eating these foods, people began to get fatter and sicker. “The food, let us say, in the 15 richest nations of the world, right now contains about 400 or 500 extra calories(熱量 ) a day that are eaten beyond what people need, and that leads people to gain weight.” David Tillman says overweight people are at greater risk for diseases like diabetes, heart disease and some cancers. Diabetes is shooting to very high rates in the United States and across Europe. Heart disease is a major cause of death in the Western nations. Unfortunately when people bee industrialized, if they adopt this Western diet, they are going to have these same health problems. A diet bad for human beings, it seems, is also bad for the environment. As the world’s population grows, experts say more forests and areas will bee farmland for crops or grasslands for raising cattle. These areas will be needed to meet the increasing demand for food. Mr. Tilman calls the link between diet, the environment and human health, “a dilemma”, a situation where it is very difficult to decide what to do. He says one possible solution is leaving the Western diet behind. 29. Why did people get fatter in the 1960s? A. They ate foods high in calories. B. They adopted a western lifestyle. C. They set aside little time for exercise. D. They had a better life and became lazier. 30. According to the text, overweight people may suffer the following diseases EXCEPT_______. A. diabetes B. skin disease C. cancers D. heart disease 31. What can we infer from Paragraph 5? A. There will be fewer and fewer forests. B. People won’t care about the environment. C. The world’s population will grow faster than ever.