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　　第2部分：阅读判断(第16—22题，每题1分，共7分) 。

　　下面的短文后列出了7个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断;如果该句提供的是正确信息，请选择A;如果该句提供的是错误信息，请选择B;如果该句的信息文中没有提及，请选择C。

　　16、根据材料，回答16-23问题。

　　A New Start

　　After Christmas comes the anti-Christmas. If the festive season is all about filing up on the things you like that are bad for you, then the new year is the "detox season" -- when people across the westem world adopt special diets to lose weight and get rid of the vague feeling that they have spent the last few weeks poisoning themselves.

　　But are detox diets really necessary? After all, the body itself gets rid of unwanted substances. That's what the liver and kidney are for.

　　"The detox fad -- or fads, as there are many methods -- is an example of the capacity of people to believe in and pay for magic despite the lack of any sound evidence. " says Martin Wiseman, professor of human nutrition at the University of Southampton in the UK.

　　Most of the pills, juices, teas and oils that are sold for their detoxifying effects on the body have no scientific foundation for their claims, according to the research. People would be better off having a glass of water and going to bed early.

　　Detox diets may be magic rather science, but they are the kind of magic which many people want to perform. That may have something to do with the western diet in general.

　　Scientists and dieticians argue that the benefits people feel are not due to their body getting rid of excessive toxins but are due to changing from what is likely to have been a "poor" diet.

　　Having fewer headaches, for example, is probably the result of being fully hydrated due to drinking so much water and better skin may be due to eating more fruit and vegetables.

　　Detox diets may also be dangerous, as they may deprive vulnerable groups -- pregnant women, for instance, or growing teenagers —of the kind of nutrients they need.

　　Yet their popularity continues to rise. This may be something to do with the way that food works within many western cultures. Generally, a country's food develops along with its economy and society. Food becomes part of a person's cultural identity.

　　In some countries, this link has been broken. In the UK, for example, rapid industrialization in the 18th and 19th centuries saw millions of people move from the countryside to the towns interrupting the development of a national cuisine. The United States, a country of immigrants from many different places, has found it hard to develop a national cuisine. In both places, comparatively few people cook for themselves and food supply is dominated by big processing and agribusiness companies.

　　Detox diets are more popular in these countries than in places like France and Italy, where strong links between food and national culture remain, and where far more people regularly cook for themselves instead of buying processed foods.

　　Perhaps detox diets are successful because many westerners have lost trust in what they eat.On the other hand, they may help re-introduce people to the kind of food that is necessary for a healthy diet. And after learning that, they won't poison themselves in the first place.

　　This would mean radical changes in the way that people eat across the west. And that would be an unwelcome development for the food industry. From the business point of view, it is much better to: sell people the problem and then sell them the solution.

　　Detox begins after Christmas when people think that they have been overeating during the Christmas season and have taken in many substances that are bad for their health.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　17、Many pregnant women and growing teenagers are suffering from mal-nutrition because of the detox diets they take.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　18、Both the UK and the USA lack a national cuisine as a result of similar historical development.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　19、The French and the Italians cook for themselves more often than the British and the Americans, which helps them to keep the link between food and their culture.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　20、On the whole the eastern people like the Chinese and the Japanese have a stronger link between their food and their culture than the western people.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　21、A positive effect of detox diets is that it helps people to see what foods are good for their health.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned

　　22、Food industry would make even greater profits if people should all start to eat healthy foods and stop poisoning themselves.

　　A.Right

　　B.Wrong

　　C.Not mentioned