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For much of the past decade, American and British scientists have been annoyed by the phenomenon known as the French Paradox. Nu

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问题     For much of the past decade, American and British scientists have been annoyed by the phenomenon known as the French Paradox. Nutritionally speaking, the French have been getting away with murder: They eat all the butter, cream, foie gras, pastry and cheese that their hearts desire, and yet their rates of obesity and heart disease are much lower than ours. Then French eat three times as much saturated animal fat as Americans do, and only a third as many die of heart attacks. It’s maddening.
    Baffled, scientists struggled to come up with a few hypotheses: Maybe it was something in the red wine, they said. But while winemakers worldwide celebrated the news, sober research has suggested that any alcohol—whether Lafite Rothschild, a banana daiquiri or a cold Bud—pretty much has the same nice, relaxing effect. So while a little wine is apt to do you good, the French aren’t so special in having a drink now and then (though the fact that they drink wine moderately and slowly with meals, instead of downing shots at the bar, could make a difference).
    After the wine argument, scientists ventured that it must be the olive oil that keeps the French healthy. But this does not explain the butter or brie. Then, French Scientists Serge Renaud (made famous on "60 Minutes" as an expert on the French Paradox) said it’s the foie gras that melts away cholesterol. This, too, is dicey: While people in Toulous—the fattened forced-fed duck-liver-eating area of France—do indeed have one of the lowest rates of heart disease in the developed world, they actually only eat the delicacy about six times a year. And they’re a lot more likely to die of stroke than we are anyway.
    Other researchers, perhaps sponsored by the garlic and onion industry, suggested that the French Paradox effect is due to garlic and onions. Claude Fischler, a nutritional sociologist at INSERM, the French equivalent of America’s National Institutes of health, says all these single hypotheses are wishful thinking than science.
    Last May, researchers writing in the British Medical Journal came up with the least cheerful hypothesis of all. They argued that it’s just a matter of time before the French—who are in fact eating more hamburgers and French fries these days—catch up with Americans, and begin suffering the same high rates of cardiovascular disease.
    These researchers, Malcolm Law and Nicholas Wald, call this the "time large explanation" for the French Paradox. As far as they are concerned, the McDonaldization (this is a French catch—all terms for the importation of fast food and other American cultural horrors) of France will continue at a frantic pace, and it is as inevitable that Frenchmen will start keeling over of heart attacks as it is that French women will eventually wear jean shorts and marshmallow tennis shoes on the streets of Paris.
What is the French Paradox according to the passage?
选项 A、The French eat more nutritious food than Americans.
B、Few French die of heart attacks each year.
C、The French suffer much less from heart disease although they eat lots of fatty food.
D、The French eat less fatty food.
答案C
解析 本题关键词是French Paradox，问题是文章中提到的“法国怪事”指的是什么。定位到第一段。根据第一段第二句and yet前后表达的意思，尽管法国人吃很多容易使人发胖的食物，但患肥胖症和心脏病的几率很小，所以选项C与原文属于相同含义，为正确答案。选项A属于主观推导，首先第一段第二句所提到的食物(cream，foie gras，pastry and cheese)不是什么营养食品 (nutritious food)，其次，文章也没有说法国人是否比美国人多吃了富含营养的食品，原文第一段的最后一句说法国人比美国人吃得多的是饱和动物脂肪(saturated animal fat)而不是营养食品。选项B属于答非所问。第一段强调的是法国人吃发胖食物却不容易得心脏病这件事情令人感到奇怪，而不是强调法国人很少死于心脏病这件事情。选项D属于正反混淆，由第一段第三句可以看出法国人吃很多容易使人发胖的食物，而该选项说French eat less fatty food。第一段：法国人不注意饮食健康，但法国人心脏病和肥胖症的患病率却比美国人低。
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