【正文】 g. 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. D. Raising cattle will be the most moneymaking business. 32. What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage? A. To tell people effective ways to keep healthy. B. To call on people to give up the Western diet. C. To show the problems industrialized nations are facing. D. To draw people’s attention to environmental protection. D Do you like to eat out? Do you like to eat quickly? Do you like inexpensive food? Some people go to fastfood restaurants for these reasons. In the past, people usually went to diners（小餐館） for these reasons. In fact, many people in the States still go to diners today for the same reasons. A man named Walter Scott had the first “diner” in 1872. It wasn’t a real diner. It was only a food cart. People on the street walked up to the cart to buy food. These carts served latenight workers who wanted a cup of coffee and a latenight meal. The meal was a sandwich or boiled eggs. In 1887, Samuel Jones built the first diner big enough to allow the customers to e inside. However, they