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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 can you infer from the passage?
选项 A、The French Paradox’s is due to the influence of American values.
B、The French Paradox will disappear in time.
C、The Mcdonaldization of France has little effect on the French’s health.
D、There is no such thing as French Paradox.
答案B
解析 本题题干没有关键词，属于全文细节题，需定位全文。首先要明确“法国怪事”是指法国人不注意健康饮食但心脏病和肥胖症的患病率却比美国人低这种看似奇怪的现象。文章第五段指出：为《英国医疗杂志》撰稿的研究人员提出了一项最令人不快的假设，即法国人赶上美国人(catch up with Americans)，并开始为同样高的心血管发病率所困扰，这只是一个时间问题，因此选项B与原文属于相同含义，为正确选项。选项A属于无中生有，文中并未提及“法国怪事”是受美国的影响。选项C正反混淆，最后一段强调法国麦当劳化给法国人的健康带来的影响很大，而非很小。选项D在时间上偷换概念，原文第五、六段强调“法国怪事”将不再存在，并不是说“法国怪事”根本不存在，至少以前和现在这种现象是存在的。第五段：研究人员认为法国人的患病率赶上美国只是时间问题。第六段：研究人员认为法国男人将必然会因心脏病而昏倒。
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