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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.
The word "dicey" (Line 7, Para. 3) probably means________.
选项 A、uncertain
B、strange
C、satisfactory
D、interesting
答案A
解析 本题关键词是dicey。属于词义题，定位到第三段前后。第二段指出，人们认为是红葡萄酒中的某些物质使得法国人更健康，接着这种观点就被推翻了。第三段开头又说是橄榄油，但马上也提出质疑，于是又提出另一个解释，由此可以推断这里的dicey和前面两种说法的结果差不多，都不一定对，所以选项A与原文属于相同含义。第二段末尾和第三段开头是不断提出假设和不断推翻假设的过程，并不能体现出“奇怪的”“满意的”或“有趣的”的含义，所以选项B、C、D均属于曲解文意。第三段：科学家提出橄榄油或鹅肝使法国人保持健康的假设也不成立。
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