News Report 2（第二套）音频、真题、答案、听力原文、答案解析、参考译文、重点词汇与表达
【音频】
【真题】
Questions 3 to 4 are based on the news report you have just heard.
3.
A) They care less about their diet now than before.
B) They may lack adequate knowledge of healthy food.
C) They may hold too optimistic a view about their diet.
D) They pay insufficient attention to their choice of food.
4.
A) Those who finished 24-hour food questionnaires.
B) Those who fully understood the rating scale.
C) Those who cared about food quality.
D) Those who rated their diet as poor.
【答案】
3. C) They may hold too optimistic a view about their diet.
4. D) Those who rated their diet as poor.
【听力原文】
[3] Many Americans think they make healthy food choices, but they may be viewing their diet too optimistically. That’s the main finding of a new study by researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Stoneville, Mississippi.
The study aimed to identify disconnects between how healthily Americans think they eat and how they actually do. For the study, the researchers asked participants to rate their diet as excellent, very good, good, fair or poor. Folks also completed 24-hour food questionnaires. Then, the researchers compared answers to see how well responses to the two exercises matched up.
Of more than 9,700 people, roughly 85 percent were off base when asked to rate the quality of their diet, and almost all overestimated how healthy it was. [4] Those who rated their diet as poor tended to be far more accurate. Their rating match that of the researchers more than nine times out of ten.
【答案解析】
3. What is the main finding of a new study about many Americans?
关于许多美国人的一项新研究的主要发现是什么？
答案：
C) They may hold too optimistic a view about their diet.
他们可能对自己的饮食持过于乐观的看法。
解析：
新闻开头就提到，“Many Americans think they make healthy food choices, but they may be viewing their diet too optimistically. That’s the main finding of a new study by researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Stoneville, Mississippi.”许多美国人认为他们做出了健康的饮食选择，但他们可能对自己的饮食过于乐观了。这是位于密西西比州斯通维尔的美国农业部研究人员一项新研究的主要发现。由此可知，选项C为正确答案。其余三项新闻中均未提及，可排除。
干扰项分析：
A) They care less about their diet now than before.
他们现在不如以前那样关心自己的饮食了。
新闻中未提及此内容，故排除。
B) They may lack adequate knowledge of healthy food.
他们可能对健康食品缺乏足够的了解。
新闻中未提及此内容，故排除。
D) They pay insufficient attention to their choice of food.
他们对食物的选择不够重视。
新闻中未提及此内容，故排除。
4. Who tended to rate their diet more accurately in the survey?
在调查中，谁往往能更准确地对自己的饮食进行评级？
答案：
D) Those who rated their diet as poor.
那些将自己的饮食评为“差”的人。
解析：
新闻末尾提到，“[4] Those who rated their diet as poor tended to be far more accurate. ”那些将自己饮食评为“差”的人往往准确得多。由此可知，选项D为正确答案。
干扰项分析：
A) Those who finished 24-hour food questionnaires.
那些完成了24小时饮食问卷调查的人。
新闻中提到所有参与者都完成了24小时饮食问卷调查，但这与谁更准确无关，故排除。
B) Those who fully understood the rating scale.
那些完全理解评级标准的人。
新闻中未提及此内容，故排除。
C) Those who cared about food quality.
那些关心食品质量的人。
新闻中未提及此内容，故排除。
【参考译文】
许多美国人认为他们做出了健康的饮食选择，但他们可能对自己的饮食过于乐观了。这是位于密西西比州斯通维尔的美国农业部研究人员一项新研究的主要发现。
该研究旨在找出美国人认为自己吃得有多健康与他们实际吃得有多健康之间的脱节之处。在这项研究中，研究人员要求参与者将自己的饮食评为优秀、很好、好、一般或差。参与者还完成了24小时的饮食问卷调查。然后，研究人员将答案进行比较，看看这两项练习的回答匹配程度如何。
