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earchers pared the men’s mentalhealth scores with their boyhoodactivity scores. Points were awarded for parttime jobs, housework, effort in school, and ability to deal with problems. The finding revealed the link between childhood activities and adulthood job is sharp. Workingat any ageis important. Childhood activities help a child develop responsibility, independence, confidence and petencethe underpinnings (基礎(chǔ) ) of emotional health. They also help him understand that people must cooperate and work toward mon goals. The most petent adults are those who know how to do this. Yet work isn’t everything. As Tolstoy once said, “One can live meaningfully in this world if one knows how to work and how to love, to work for the person one loves and to love one’s work.” 28. Tom is a person who ______. A. received little love from his family. B. had few childhood friends. C. enjoyed his life when he grew up. D. was envied by others in his childhood. 29. Smith’s words in Paragraph 2 serve as _____. A. a description of personal values and social values B. an analysis of how work was related to petence C. an example for parents’ expectations of their children D. an explanation why some boys grew into happy men 30. Smith’s team got their findings by _____. A. recording the boys’ effort in school B. evaluating the men’s mental health C. paring different sets of scores D. measuring the men’s problem solving ability 31. What can be inferred from the last paragraph? A. petent adults know more about love than work. B. Emotional health is important to a wonderful adult life. C. Love brings more joy to people than work does. D. Independence is the key to one’s success. D This is a very strange point. While fighting world hunger continues to be the matter of importance, as is reported and shown great concern by WHO, more people now die from being overweight, or say, from being extremely fat, than from being underweight. It’s the good life that’s more likely to kill us these days. Worse, nearly 20 million children under the age of five around the world are estimated to be overweight. What’s going on? We really don’t have many excuses for our weight problems. Because we’ve already known them well. The dangers of the problem have been drilled into us by publichealth campaigns(運(yùn)動(dòng) ) since 2021 and the message is getting through—up to a point. In the 1970s, Finland, for example, had the highest rate of heart disease in the world and being overweight was its main cause. Not any more. A publichealth campaign has greatly reduced the number of heart disease deaths by 80 per cent over the past three decades. Maybe that explains why the percentage of people in Finland taking diet pills doubled between 2021 and 2021, and doctors even offer surgery of removing fat inside and change the shape of the body. That has bee a sort of fashion. No wonder it ranks as the world’s most bodyconscious country. We know what we should be doing to lose weight—but actually doing it is another matter. By far the most popular excuse is not taking enough exercise. More than half of us admit we lack willpower. Others blame good food. They say: it’s just too inviting and it makes them overeat. Still others lay the blame on the Americans, plaining that pounds have piled on thanks to eating too much Americanstyle fast food. Some also blame their parents—their genes. But unfortunately, the parents are wronged because they’re normal in shape, or rather slim. It’s a similar story around the world, although people are relatively unlikely to have tried to lose weight. Parents are eager to see their kids shape up. Do as I say—not as I do. 32. What is the “strange” point mentioned in the first sentence? A. Starvation is taking more people’s lives in the world. B. The good life is a greater danger than the bad life. C. WHO report shows people’s unawareness of food safety. D. Overweight issue remains unresolved despite WHO’s efforts. 33. Why does the author think that people have no excus