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Children are getting so fat they may be the first generation to die before their parents, an expert claimed yesterday. Today’s
Children are getting so fat they may be the first generation to die before their parents, an expert claimed yesterday. Today’s
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2011-07-28
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Children are getting so fat they may be the first generation to die before
their parents, an expert claimed yesterday. Today’s youngsters are already
falling prey of potential killers such as diabetes and hypertension because 1.______
of their weight. Fat fast-food diet combined with sedentary lifestyles 2.______
dominated by televisions and computers mean kids will die tragically 3.______
young, says Professor Andrew Prentice.
In the UK alone, more than one million under-16s are classed as
overweight or obese — double on the number in the mid Eighties. One in 4.______
ten four-year- olds are also medically classified as obese.
The obesity pandemic — an extensive epidemic — which started in the
US, has now spread to Europe, Australasia, Central America and the Middle
East. Many nations now record more than 20 per cent of their population as
clinically obese and well over half the population overweight. 5.______
Prof. Prentice said the change in our shape has been caused by
oversupply of easily available high-energy foods combined with a dramatic 6. -______
drop in the energy we use as a result of technology developments.
He is not lonely in his concern. Only last week one medical journal 7.______
revealed how obesity was fuelling a rise in cancer cases. Obesity also
increases the risk factor for strokes and heart disease as well as diabetes.
An average obese person’s lifespan is shortened by around nine years 8. ______
while a severely obese person by many more.
Prof. Prentice said: "So parents outlive their children, as claimed recently 9.______
by an American obesity specialist? The answer is yes and no. Yes, when
the offspring become grossly obese. This is now becoming an alarmingly
common occurrence in the US. Such children and adolescents have a greatly
reduced quality of life in terms both their physical and psychosocial health." 10.______
So say "No" to that doughnut and burger.
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答案
∧oversupply—an
解析
本题为冠词误用。oversupply是可数名词,必须使用冠词,此处为泛指,在文中第一次出现,用不定冠词。
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