Trying to get Americans to eat a healthy diet is a frustrating business. Even the best- designed public-health campaigns cannot seem to compete with the tempting flavors of the snack-food and fast-food industries and their fat-and sugar-laden products. The results are apparent on a walk down any American street--more than 60% of Americans are overweight, and a full quarter of them are overweight to the point of obesity. Now, health advocates say, an ill-conceived redesign has taken one of the more successful public-health campaigns--the Food Guide Pyramid--and rendered it confusing to the point of uselessness. Some of these critics worry that America’ s Department of Agriculture caved in to pressure from parts of the food industry anxious to protect their products. The Food Guide Pyramid was a graphic which emphasizes that a healthy diet is built on a base of grains, vegetables and fruits, followed by ever-decreasing amounts of dairy products, meat, sweets and oils. The agriculture department launched the pyramid in 1992 to replace its previous program, which was centered on the idea of four basic food groups. The" Basic Four" campaign showed a plate divided into quarters, and seemed to imply that meat and dairy products should make up half of a healthy diet, with grains ,fruits and vegetables making up the other half. It was replaced only over the strenuous objections of the meat and dairy industries. The old pyramid was undoubtedly imperfect. It failed to distinguish between a doughnut and a whole-grain roll, or a hamburger and a skinless chicken breast, and it did not make clear exactly how much of each foodstuff to eat. It did, however, manage to convey the basic idea of proper proportions in an easily understandable way. The new pyramid, called" My Pyramid", abandons the effort to provide this information. Instead, it has been simplified to a mere logo. The food groups are replaced with unlabelled, multi-colored vertical stripes which, in some versions, rise out of a cartoon jumble of foods that look like the aftermath of a riot at a grocery store. Anyone who wants to see how this translates into a healthy diet is invited to go to a website, put in their age, sex and activity level, and get a custom-designed pyramid, complete with healthy food choices and suggested portion sizes. This is fine for those who are motivated, but might prove too much effort for those who most need such information. Admittedly, the designers of the new pyramid had a tough job to do. They were supposed to condense the advice in the 84-page United States’ Dietary Guidelines into a simple, meaningful graphic suitable for printing on the back of a cereal box. And they had to do this in the face of pressure from dozens of special interest groups--from the country’ s Potato Board, which thought potatoes would look nice in the picture, to the Mmond Board of California, which felt the same way about almonds. Even the National Watermelon Promotion Board and the California Avocado Commission were eager to see their products recognized. Nevertheless ,many health advocates believe the new graphic is a missed opportunity. Mthough officials insist industry pressure had nothing to do with the eventual design, some critics suspect that political influence was at work. On the other hand, it is not clear how much good even the best graphic could do. Surveys found that 80% of Americans recognized the old Food Guide Pyramid--a big success in the world of public-health campaigns. Yet only 16% followed its advice. It can be inferred from the text that
A. the effect of a well designed graph might be very small.
B. the new pyramid is definitely doomed to be a failure.
C. political influence will never be waved from the design.
D. the Potato Board of the country is very influential.
根据案例,回答问题: 张山今年35岁,是一家保险公司的副总裁,年薪30万元;张山的妻子李红今年27岁,在一家制造业公司工作,年薪5万元;他们的孩子琳琳今年3岁。张山有一个姐姐和一个有残障的弟弟。李红的母亲今年55岁。 张山一家在海边有一间价值20万元的小木屋。现在居住的房屋是张山2009年9月购买的,房屋价值100万元,首付30%,剩余按揭。按当时的房屋按揭相关规定,张山必须为按揭房投保“房贷险”,为此,他向某保险公司一次性支付总投保金2万元。 张山的业余爱好是收集古玩,家里收藏了超过15万元的古董,还有一幅字画;李红喜欢佩戴首饰,她有一条价值10万元的珍珠项链、一只价值5万元的钻戒。张山全家都喜欢旅行,曾一起在欧洲、南美、日本度过假。 张山家有三辆汽车,其中包括一辆价值30万元的奥迪A4,所有车辆均于2010年在中国人民财产保险公司投保。 张山在2009年3月为妻子购买了一份重大疾病保险,选择年缴方式,每年的10月1日缴费。由于笔误,张山在填写投保单时将妻子的年龄写小了2岁,保险公司审核时,并未发现这一问题。 张山若投保机动车辆保险,可以获得保费优惠,原因是( )。
A. 车辆性能较好
B. 车辆使用频率低
C. 驾驶员技术好
D. 路面情况好
What’s your earliest childhood memory Can you remember learning to walk Or talk The first time you heard thunder or watched a television program Adults seldom (1) events much earlier than the year or so before entering school, (2) children younger than three or four (3) retain any specific, personal experiences.A variety of explanations have been (4) by psychologists for this " childhood amnesia " . One argues that the hippocampus, the region of the brain which is (5) for formling memories, does not mature until about the age of two. But the most popular theory (6) that, since adults don’t think like children, they cannot (7) childhood memories. Adults think in words, and their life memories are like stories or (8) —one event follows another as in a novel or film. (9) , when they search through their mental (10) for early childhood memories to add to this verbal life story, they don’t find any that fit the (11) . It’s like trying to find a Chinese word in an English dictionary.Now psychologist Annette Simms of the New York State University offers a new (12) for childhood amnesia. She argues that there simply aren’t any early childhood memories to recall. According to Dr. Simms, children need to learn to use someone else’s spoken (13) of their personal (14) in order to turn their own short-term, quickly forgotten (15) of them into long-term memories. (16) , children have to talk about their (17) and hear others talk about them—Mother talking about the afternoon (18) looking for seashells at the beach or Dad asking them about their day at Ocean Park. Without this (19) reinforcement, says Dr.Simms, children cannot form (20) memories of their personal experiences. 19()
A. habitual
B. verbal
C. unique
D. particular