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In the United States, 30 percent of the adult population has a weight problem. To

many people, the cause is obvious: they eat too much. But scientific evidence does little to

support the idea.

Going back to the America of the 1910s, we find that people were thinner than today,

yet they ate more food. In those days people worked harder physically, walked more, used

machines much less and didn’t watch television.

Several modern studies, moreover, have shown that fatter people do not eat more on

average than thinner people. In fact, some investigations, such as the 1979 study of 3,545

London office workers, report that, on balance, fat people eat less than slimmer people.

Studies show that slim people are more active than fat people. A study by a research

group at Stanford University School of Medicine found the following interesting facts:

The more the men run, the more body fat they lost. The more they ran, the greater amount

of food they ate. Thus, those who run the most ate the most, yet lost the greatest amount of

body fat.

11. The physical problem that many adult Americans have is that ________.

A. they are too slim B. they work too hard

C. they are too fat D. they lose too much body fat

12. According to the article, given 500 adult Americans, ________ will have a weight

problem.

A. 30 B. 50 C. 100 D. 150

13. Is there any scientific evidence to support that eating too much is the cause of a weight

problem？

A. Yes, there is plenty of evidence.

B. Of course, there is some evidence to show this is true.

C. There is hardly any scientific evidence to support that.

D. We don’t know because the information is not given.

14. In comparison with the adult American population today, the Americans of the 1910s

_______.

A. ate more food and had more physical activities.

B. ate less food but had more activities

C. ate less food and had less physical exercise

D. had more weight problems

15. Modern scientific researchers have reported to us that ________.

A. fat people eat less food and are less active

B. fat people eat more food than slim people and are more active

C. fat people eat more food than slim people but are less active

D. thin people run less, but have greater increase in food intake