There are other aspects of healthy eating which are now receiving increasing attention from experts on diet. Take, for example, the question of sugar. This is actually a non-essential food! Although a natural alternative, such as honey, can be used to sweeten food if this is necessary, we can in fact do without it. It is not that sugar is harmful in itself. But it dose seem to be an additive: the quantity we use has grown steadily over the last two centuries and in Britain today each person consumes an average of 200 pounds a year! Yet all it does is to provide us with energy, in the form of calories. There are no vitamins in it, no minerals and no fiber.

It is significant that nowadays fiber is considered to be an important part of a healthy diet. In white bread, for example, the fiber has been removed. But it is present in unrefined flour and of course in vegetables. It is interesting to note that in countries where the national diet contains large quantities of unrefined flour band vegetables, certain diseases are comparatively rate. Hence the emphasis placed on the eating of whole meal bread and more vegetables by modern experts on healthy eating.

1. Recently, some people are interested in natural foods because

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2. To use chemicals and fertilizers means

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3. In the battery farm the chicken are fed on food which

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4. It can be inferred from the passage that

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5. What’s the best title for this passage?

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Ⅴ.Error Correction ( 10 minutes; 10 points )

Directions: The passage contains TEN errors, one in each numbered  line. You may have to change a word, add a word or delete a word. If you change a word, cross it out and write the correct word in the corresponding blank. If you add a word, put an insertion mark ( ^ ) in the correct place and write the missing word in the blank. If you delete a word, cross it out and be sure to put a slash ( / ) in the blank.

Britain was a wealthy country a hundred and fifty

years ago. There were a few very rich people who received

money from land or investments, and did not need to work.

They used to have large amounts of servants to look after    (1) ______

them. There were also many middle class people, who

worked as businessmen or as doctors or lawyer. They usually  (2) _____

had several servants to clear their houses and cook their meals. (3) _____

But there were also many poor people, there was a big   (4) _____

gap between the rich and the poor. The poor had very

different lives. Many worked as servants. They used to

pay little, and they had to work long hours. But at least   ( 5 ) _____

they lived in a warm house and were well fed.

Those who worked in factories were often less

fortunate. They used to work many hours a day, in

dangerous and unhealthy conditions. But, even so, they

did not use to earn enough to feed his families. They    ( 6 ) _____

often lived in slums which were built cheaply by the

factory owners.

The worst paid people were those who worked on

the farms. At certain times of the year, they did not use

to learn nothing because there was no work for them to  ( 7 ) _____

do. Life for poor was not always bad. There were kind   ( 8 ) _____

farmers and factory owners who helped their workers.

And many people were concerned about the poor. One

of them was Charles Dickens, the famous British writer.

When he was young, his family was always short for    ( 9 ) _____

money. His father was a clerk, who used to spend more

than he earn. When Dickens was eleven, he had to work   (10 ) _____

in a factory. At that time, very young children used to work