Obesity(肥胖)Causes Global Warming The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing:Last week,obese people were accused of c

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问题 Obesity(肥胖)Causes Global Warming
The list of ills attributable to obesity keeps growing:Last week,obese people were accused of causing global warming.
This_______ (1)comes from Sheldon J acobson of the University of Illinois,US,and a doctoral student,Laura McLay.Their study________(2)how much extra gasoline is needed to haul fat A mericans around.The answer,they say,is a billion gallons of gas per year.It________(3)an extra 11 million tons of carbon dioxide.
There has been_______ (4)for taxes on j unk food in recent years.US economist Martin Schmidt suggests a tax on fast food________(5)to people’S cars.“We tax cigarettes partly because of their health cost,”Schmidt said.“Similarly,leading a lazy life style will end________(6)costing taxpayers more.”
    US political scientist Eric Oliver said hi s first instinct was to laugh at these gas and fast food ar guments.But such________(7)are getting attention.
  At the US Obesity Society’s annual meeting,one person________(8)obesity with car accident deaths,and another correlated obesity with suicides.No one asked whether there was really a cause—and—effect relationship.“The funny thing was that everyone took it_______(9).”Oliver said.
  In a 1 9 60s study,children were_________(1 0)drawings of children with disabilities and without them,and a drawing of an obese child.They were asked_________(1 1)they would want for a friend?The obese child was picked last.
  Three researchers recently repeated the study_________(1 2)college students.Once again,_______ (1 3)no one,not even obese people,liked the obese person.
But,researchers say,getting_________(14)is not like quitting smoking.People struggle to stop smoking,and,in the end,many succeed.Obesity is different.Science has shown that they have limited personal control over their weight.Genes also_________(1 5)a part.
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选项 A、mixed
B、correlated
C、contacted
D、involved

答案B

解析 correlate with:固定搭配,相关,这里指有人把肥胖和车祸的死亡联系起来,后面的correlate with也提供了线索,所以选B。mix:混合。contact:接触。involve:包含,参与。
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