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Stop Eating Too Much
"Clean your plate!" and "Be a member of the clean-plate club!" Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a parent or grandparent. Often, it's accompanied by an appeal："Just think about those starving orphans（孤儿）in Africa!" Sure, we should be grateful for every bite of food. Unfortunately, many people in the US take too many bites. Instead of staying "clean the plate", perhaps we should save some food for tomorrow.
According to news reports, US restaurants are partly to blame for the growing bellies （肚子）. A waiter puts a plate of food in front of each customer, with two to four times the amount recommended by the government, according to a USA Today story. Americans traditionally associate quantity with value and most restaurants try to give them that. They prefer to have customers complain about too much food rather than too little.
Barbara Rolls, a nutrition（营养）professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the l 970s, the same time that the American waistline（腰围）began to expand.
Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, Apparently, some customers are calling for this t00. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4. 000 people surveyed believed restaurants served portions that were too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreed. But a closer look at the survey Indicates that many Americans who can’t afford fine dining still prefer large portions. Seventy percent of those earning at least $ 150,000 per year prefer smaller portions; but only 45 percent of those earning less than$25,000 want smaller.
It's not that working class Americans don't want to eat healthy. It's just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, geeing less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal. They live from paycheck（薪金支票）to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next year's Christmas presents.
36 Parents in the United States tend to ask their children
A to save food for tomorrow.
B to wash the dishes.
C not to waste food.
D not to eat too much.

55 A fresh B soft C deep D warm

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Child Consultants
These days, "what do you want to do when you grow up？" is the wrong question to ask children in the USA. The (51) should be: "what job are you doing now？" American companies are employing more and more young people as consultants to evaluate products for child (52). The 12-to-19 (53) group spends more than $100 billion a year in the USA. Specialist agencies have been created to help manufaqturers ask kids about all the latest trends in clothes, food and (54) markets. One (55), Teenage Research Unlimited, has panels (评判小组) of teenagers who give their verdict (裁决) on products (56) jeans (牛仔裤). Another company, Doyle Research Associated, holds two-hour sessions in a room (57) the "imaginarium (想象室)." Children are encouraged to play games to get (58) a creative mood. They have to write down any ideas that (59) into their heads.
Some manufacturers prefer to do their own (60) research. The software company Microsoft runs a weekly "Kid's Council" at its headquarters in Seattle, (61) a panel of school children give their verdict on the (62) products and suggest new ones. One 11-year-old, Andrew Cooledge, told them that they should make more computer games which would appeal equally (63) boys and girls. Payments for the work are increasingly attractive. Andrew Cooledge was paid $250 and given some software (64), even if their ideas are valuable, the children will never make a fortune. They cannot have the copyright to their ideas. These are not jobs they can hold for long they are too old. (65) their mid-teens they can be told that they are too old.
51 A sentence B word C answer D question

53 A dealing B working C smoking D shopping