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市西中学2025学年第一学期期中考试
高二
英语
2025.11
I.Grammar and vocabulary
Section A
Directions:After reading the passage below,fill in the blanks to make the passage
coherent and grammatically correct.For the blanks with a given word,fill in each
blank with the proper form of the given word;for the other blanks,use one word that
best fits each blank.
Britain's obesity problem is costing our economy almost f100 billion a year and
will leave us a sick and poor nation,a report has found.
Analysis from the Tony Blair Institute,published by The Times,estimates that the
damaging effect(1)
national productivity from excess weight is nine times
greater than previously believed.The cost of obesity is expected to grow by another
f10 billion over the next 15 years,according to the report.
The total cost of f98 billion,which includes the f63 billion cost of shorter,
(2)
(healthy)lives,is equivalent to about 4 per cent of GDP.
Henry Dimbleby,the Government's former food tsar,has called on ministers
(3)
(launch)smoking-style restrictions on junk food and turn away from
plans to put millions of overweight people on weight-loss drugs.
According to Mr Dimbleby,(4)
such interventions are in place,Britain
will be left a sick and impoverished nation,the NHS will suck all the money out of
the other public services while at the same time,economic growth and tax revenue
will stagnate.
To date,the government (5)
(shelve)plans for a 9pm junk food
advertising watershed(禁播起始时间)and a ban on buy-one-get-one-free deals on
unhealthy products until 2025.Victoria Atkins,the health secretary,suggests the
authorities(⑤】
(transfer)from being nanny-statish(管理过度)to giving
people help and advice on how to be healthier.
A Department of Health spokesman told The Times that it was"taking firm action
to tackle obesity'”(⑦
actually worked,citing food-labelling guidelines,
funding for school sports and giving healthy food vouchers to (8)
(disadvantage)families.
Hermione Dace,of the Tony Blair Institute,told the newspaper that its analysis
shows that the health of the nation and our economic growth and prosperity
(9)
(ground)on dealing with obesity.
"We need a fresh approach (10)
real options are available
to people,rebalancing the food system in favour of healthy,cost-effective choices and
discouraging profiting from ultra-processed and junk food."
Section B
Directions:Complete the following passage by using the words in the box.Each word
can only be used once.Note that there is one word more than you need.
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