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experiment,55 Asian-Americans were asked to choose a meal from a local Asian or American participants were told that only Americans could participate in the who chose the more typical American fare ended up consuming an extra 182 calories,including 12 grams of fat and 7 grams of saturated fat(飽和脂肪).“People who feel like they need to prove they belong to a culture will change their habits in an attempt to fit in,”said Sauna Cheryan,an author of the study and assistant professor of psychology at the University of Washington.“If immigrants and their children choose unhealthy American foods over healthier traditional foods across their lives,this process of fitting in could lead to poorer health.”Cheryan added.Social pressures,the study concluded,are at the heart of the problem.“In American society today,being American is associated with being ,who don39。t fit this image even if they were born here and speak English,feel that pressure to prove that they39。re American,” said Cheryan.【語篇解讀】 移居美國是不少人的夢想,許多移民不惜以健康為代價千方百計融入美國社會。1.The author wants to show that ________.A.more and more Asians enjoy high-calorie snacksB.immigrants tend to eat American junk food to fit inC.most Americans are at the risk of heart diseaseD.a(chǎn)ll the American people have a bad eating habit【解析】 作者意圖題。本文是一篇研究報道,第一段是文章的中心段,根據(jù)本段第一句中的內(nèi)容可知作者意在表明移民傾向于食用高能量食物以便融入美國社會。【答案】 B2.According to the survey,________.A.Asian-Americans care less about their healthB.25 percent of Americans like junk foodC.choosing food is related to Asian-Americans39。 situationD.immigrants are forced to eat junk food【解析】 推理判斷題。從第二段的研究可知,75%的被詢問過是否有說英語能力的亞裔美國人將一種典型的美國食物看作他們的最愛,而只有25%的沒有被詢問是否有說英語能力的亞裔美國人這樣做,由此可推斷選擇食物與亞裔美國人的處境有關(guān)?!敬鸢浮俊3.The underlined word “fare” in Paragraph 3 most probably means“________”.A.food offered as a mealB.a(chǎn) person taking a taxiC.money spent on foodD.a(chǎn)n arranged thing to do【解析】 猜測詞義題。結(jié)合上文中的“In that experiment,55 Asian-Americans were asked to choose a meal from a local Asian or American restaurant.”以及畫線詞后面的內(nèi)容可推知畫線詞表示的是提供的食物?!敬鸢浮俊4.According to Sauna Cheryan,________.A.what immigrants have done is rid