【正文】 Most of all, America is inescapable. It is the world?s 900pound gorilla: basically amiable and wellmeaning, crushing through the underbrush, dominating the landscape, altering the scenery, impossible either to shoo away or ignore. Its fads, fashions, folkways and fast food sweep around the globe。 its brandishing of missiles scares even its allies. It is a standard for the world?s successes and a scapegoat for the world?s failures. There has always been ambivalence about the United States. Throughout the country?s meteoric history, people have admired its energy, riches and opportunity—and envied and resented its power and success. Since World War II, however, that ambivalence has bee even more pronounced, and today the world sees America as a curious paradox: a country whose military, diplomatic and economic prestige has been waning in a period when its cultural influence has never been stronger. The jarring discordance in feelings about American politics and culture takes some odd and ic forms: on Nicaragua?s staterun television work, for instance, American programs like “Barnaby Jones” are interspersed with “mercials” demonstrating how to throw grenades in the event of Yankee invasion. The key distinction is simply between the American people—who are seen as warm, friendly and ingenuous—and the . government. That was underlined in a poll 中國(guó)最龐大的下載資料庫(kù) (整理 . 版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 9 頁(yè) 共 15 頁(yè) conducted for Newsweek International in six countries around the world. In the countries surveyed—France, Japan, Great Britain, West Germany, Brazil and Mexico—most respondents expressed approval for the American people, but a plurality said they disapproved of . government policy. Moreover, the poll found people inclined to think that a strong American military presence increases the chances for war instead of safeguarding peace. That finding represents a significant change from the early postwar years: a similar survey taken by the . Information Agency in the early fifties showed broad approval for the role of American troops. American influence in the world is seen as actually increasing—a perception that may be due largely to the strong impact America has on movies, television and music around the world. Some images of America remain constant. The United States is still regarded as a country of great affluence that rewards initiative and industriousness, a place where educational background and social class are not barriers to success. The Italian slang for striking it rich or lucky is “ha trovato l?america”—“he found America”。 they also produce eggs which lack important vitamins. There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually a nonessential food! Although a natural alternative, such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if this is necessary, we can in fact do without it. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But it does seem to be an additive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all it does is provide us with energy, in the form of calories. There are no vitamins in it, no minerals and no fiber. It is significant that nowadays fiber is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet. In white bread, for example, the fiber has been removed. But it is present in unrefined flour and of course in vegetables. It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour and vegetables, certain diseases are paratively rare. Hence the emphasis placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by modern experts on healthy eating. 59. Recently, some people are interested in natural foods because ______. A. natural foods are fresh and cheap B. they don?t like processed foods C. they want to change their eating habits D. these foods contain more vitamins, minerals and fiber etc. 中國(guó)最龐大的下載資料庫(kù) (整理 . 版權(quán)歸原作者所有 ) 第 11 頁(yè) 共 15 頁(yè) 60. According to the passage, to use chemicals and fertilizers means ______. A. to increase the amount of foods B. to increase the quality of foods C. to increase the amount and quality of foods D. to increase essential vitamins and minerals 61. It can be inferred from the passage that ______. A. people will no longer eat those foods containing chemical additives B. people will not necessarily do exercises in the future if they eat natural foods C. natural foods will find a good market in the future D. certain diseases will never befall people who eat natural foods 62. What?s the best title for this passage? A. Eating Habits Are . Healthy Eating. C. Natural Food and Chemical . How to Go on a Diet. Questions 63 to 65 are based on the following passage: Many stray dogs and cats wander the streets of cities. Usually they end up in animal shelters, where staffs must find ways to dispose of them. One legitimate disposal route has been the research laboratory. But in California, animal rights groups recently have been leaning hard on animal shelters, effectively cutting off much of the supply. About 30 years ago, Los Angeles voters soundly defeated a proposal to prohibit the release of animals for laboratory use. But today, with new proposals being submitted to city councils and county boards, the results could well be different. And the new proposals are much more sweeping. They would create review boards for all animal experimentation. A group of California investigators even have anized a mittee for animal research in medicine. “Most scientists don?t realize the danger,” says Caltech neurobiologist John M. Allman, who uses monkeys to study the anization of the brain. “Su