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Most of the ill health we suffer could be prevented if people made more effort to change their life styles. Instead many people
Most of the ill health we suffer could be prevented if people made more effort to change their life styles. Instead many people
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2008-12-13
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Most of the ill health we suffer could be prevented if people made more effort to change their life styles. Instead many people continue to smoke, to drink excessively and to eat unbalanced diets. How can governments help people conserve their health and avoid premature death?
Well, many of the measures which need to be taken are primarily a matter of new legislation and need not be expensive. One of the first preventive health measures should be an increase in taxes on tobacco to the point at which consumption falls off. The aim should be to raise the same amount of revenue from a decreasing number of people. In the short term such a policy could even raise extra money which should then be spent on subsidizing sport so that advertising tobacco through sports sponsorship could be banned.
Legislation is badly needed to ban all advertising of tobacco products as it persuades people to smoke more and so is in a large part responsible for the ill health and thousands of premature deaths caused by cancer of the lung. Other measures should be enforced, such as a much tougher health warning on cigarette packet, and tobacco companies should be made to contribute to research into a cure for lung cancer.
Alcoholism could be prevented by making wines, spirits and strong beers more expensive and the revenue raised could be used to set up clinics to help the people who already have a drink problem and want to give up. Similarly all advertising of alcohol should be banned and compensation paid to families of alcoholics who die of cirrhosis of the liver.
A country’s food and agricultural policy should also be based on a coherent health policy. For political reasons it is considered important to have a relatively cheap supply of eggs, cheese and milk, the very foods which are blamed as the cause of heart disease when eaten in excess. And even if it is disputed that excess animal fat is detrimental to health, foods could be labeled with the average percentage of different fats so that consumers who wanted to reduce their saturated fat intake would be able to do so easily.
Much more could be done to improve people’s diet in Britain and everyone should be encouraged to eat the types of food which are good for health. Current research on the nutritional value of foods should be freely available and the government should control the advertising of "rubbish" food. A program of health education and lessons on sensible eating could be started in the schools with the Government’s backing.
选项
A、advertising
B、research
C、governments
D、taxation
答案
C
解析
此题为快速浏览题。文章首段为导入段,首先讲人们如能改变生活习惯就可以保持身体健康,但问题是许多人难以改变那些不良习惯。接着提出一个问题;政府如何做可以帮助人们保持健康而不至于过早地死亡?由于此句为导入段最后1句,因此,按照文章写作的基本规律,下文应针对这一问题作出回答。此文浏览的关键在于了解说明文写作的一般格式和特点。
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