问题 单项选择题

"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club!" Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, it’s accompanied by an appeal. "Just think about those starving orphans (孤儿) in Africa!"
Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take a few too many bites. Instead of saying "clean the plate," perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.
According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies (肚子). A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government, according to a USA Today story.
Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They serve large portions to stand apart from competitors and to give the customers value. They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little.
Barbara Rolls, a nutrition professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today, that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that the American waistline began to expand.
Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparently, some customers are calling for this too. A restaurant industry trade magazine reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4 000 people surveyed believed restaurants serve portions that are too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed.
But a closer look at the survey indicates that many Americans who can’t afford fine dining still prefer large portions. Seventy percent of those earning at least $150 000 per year prefer smaller portions, but only 45 percent of those earning less than $ 25 000 want smaller.
It’s not that working class Americans don’t want to eat healthy. It’s just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal. They live from paycheck to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next year’s Christmas presents.

According to the passage, working class Americans dining in restaurants ______.

A. eat less to save money
B. get less on their plate
C. want to get their money’s value back
D. do not care about their health

答案

参考答案:C

解析: 归纳分析题,此题同样出于第四段。所不同的是题目中用了
working class Americans作主语,起到了混淆作用。此题可从第四段第一句中得到判断。美国人一直把所得到的和所付出的钱作比较。所以大多数餐馆都极力给他们提供足够或更多的食物。

问答题 案例分析题

某校高二学生围绕感知低碳经济,感悟低碳文化,参与低碳生活为主题开展探究性学习活动。在活动中,同学们通过上网查阅、实地调查等获得了以下信息。

材料一:我国正处于工业社会发展前期,发展经济与保护环境的矛盾更为突出,我国人口众多;资源相对贫乏,长期沿用高物耗、高能耗、高污染的粗放型经济模式,资源的掠夺性开发造成了巨大浪费,发展以低能耗、低排放、低污染为基础的“低碳经济”势在必行。2009年8月12日,温 * * * * 主持召开国务院常务会议,研究部署应对气候变化有关工作。会议要求,下一阶段我国将大力发展绿色经济,紧密结合扩大内需促进经济增长的决策部署,培育以低碳排放为特征的新的经济增长点。开展低碳经济试点示范,推动形成资源节约、环境友好的生产方式、生活方式和消费模式。

材料二:在转方式、调结构,经济转型的背景之下,江苏省如何发展低碳经济?江苏省政协委员为发展低碳经济献计献策。他们纷纷表示,发展低碳经济,要转变理念,树立环境优先的观念。周惠敏委员强调,要增强节能减排意识,摒除“不差我一个”的观念,低碳经济不是未来需要做的事情,而是要从现在做起。宗成中委员和宗金明委员指出要通过技术创新来促进低碳经济的发展。徐群委员特别强调,发展低碳经济不完全等于发展新能源,有时候会出现节能不减排、低碳高污染的情况。例如,太阳能是低碳的,但太阳能电池板所产生的高污染也是不容置疑的,我们不能为了简单的低碳而低碳。

结合材料二,运用唯物辩证法的有关知识,分析政协委员们观点的正确性。

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