2025年12月英语四级阅读真题卷二 Passage One

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Junk food is now a staple of many Americans' diets. Advertising campaigns from the snack food companies, often featuring sports stars, send the message that we can neutralize any negative effects of consuming their products simply by getting more physical exercise. But recent studies show a lack of exercise is not to blame for rising obesity rates. Bad diets are.

垃圾食品如今已成为许多美国人饮食中的主食。零食公司的广告宣传常常邀请体育明星代言，传递出这样一种信息：只要多进行体育锻炼，我们就能抵消食用其产品带来的所有负面影响。但近期研究表明，肥胖率上升的罪魁祸首并非缺乏锻炼，而是糟糕的饮食。

Interventions(干预) to help reduce junk food consumption are especially important for children and teenagers. Prevention is better than cure because obesity is so difficult to treat. Unfortunately, while health education has shown some success among young children,teens have been harder to reach.

旨在减少垃圾食品摄入的干预措施，对儿童和青少年尤为重要。预防远胜于治疗，因为肥胖症极难治愈。遗憾的是，尽管健康教育在低龄儿童中取得了一定成效，却很难影响到青少年群体。

Now a large-scale study has tried an innovative approach to change teenagers' attitudes towards healthy eating, and the results are promising. The researchers argued that previous interventions have probably been unsuccessful because of a major flaw: they focused on a future, healthier you and assumed that this would be enough motivation for teenagers. In contrast, the new intervention cleverly exploits teenagers' instinct for rebelliousness and autonomy,and the value they place on social justice.

如今，一项大规模研究尝试了一种创新方法来改变青少年对健康饮食的态度，且效果喜人。研究人员认为，以往的干预措施之所以失败，很可能源于一个重大缺陷：它们都着眼于未来更健康的自己，并认为这足以成为青少年的动力。与之相反，这项新干预巧妙地利用了青少年天生的叛逆心理、自主意识，以及他们对社会公正的重视。

To do this, researchers had students read an article on the food industry. It revealed a secret about the manipulative and deceptive strategies used to make junk food more addictive and characterize the products as healthy. The article also explained how advertising campaigns specifically target very young and poor people, causing harm for these vulnerable groups. Afterwards, the participants read a fictional survey of teens who wanted to “fight back against the companies by buying and eating less processed food”.

为此，研究人员让学生阅读一篇关于食品行业的文章。文章揭露了行业内幕：商家使用操控性、欺骗性的手段让垃圾食品更易使人上瘾，并将这些产品包装成健康食品。文章还指出，广告宣传专门针对幼儿与贫困人群，对这些弱势群体造成伤害。随后，参与者阅读了一份虚构的青少年调查报告，这些青少年希望 “通过少买、少吃加工食品来反抗这些公司”。

After the intervention, participants associated healthy eating with autonomy and social justice. The teenagers also rated healthy eating as being more appealing. Importantly, there were also some promising effects of the new intervention on actual behavior. A day later the students were offered a choice of snacks and drinks in a seemingly unrelated context. The teens chose healthy snacks and drinks (such as fruit or water) more often over unhealthy options (like biscuits and soda). Apparently associating a healthy diet with teenagers' own values seems to be a promising avenue to prevent obesity.

干预结束后，参与者将健康饮食与自主独立、社会公正联系在了一起。青少年也认为健康饮食更具吸引力。重要的是，这项新干预对实际行为也产生了积极效果。一天后，在一场看似无关的场景中，学生们可以自主选择零食和饮品。相比饼干、汽水等不健康选择，他们更多地挑选了水果、水等健康零食与饮品。显然，将健康饮食与青少年自身的价值观绑定，有望成为预防肥胖的有效途径。

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2025年12月英语四级阅读真题 卷二 Passage One

2025年12月英语四级阅读真题卷二 Passage One