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Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
If you’re like many Americans, you’re probably consuming far more sugar than you realize. Much of this sugar comes in the form of high-fructose corn syrup, which the food industry began adding to virtually all processed foods in the 1970s. This was back when the consumption of fat was first linked to heart disease. With the best of intentions, the food industry reduces the fat content in many processed foods. Unfortunately, low-fat foods taste like cardboard, so the food industry added high fructose corn syrup to make them “tasty” once more. As a result, while the consumption of table sugar has gone down, the consumption of high-fructose corn syrup has skyrocketed. The problem is that research now links sugar consumption in any form to a host of health problems, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer. Some researchers are going so far as to label sugar “toxic.”
Recent studies at the University of California, Davis, show that when a person consumes too much sugar, the liver gets overloaded with fructose and converts some of it into fat. Some of that fat ends up in the bloodstream and helps generate an especially dangerous kind of cholesterol called small dense LDL. These LDL particles are known to lodge in blood vessels, form plaque, and cause heart attacks. In addition, sugar has become a major focus in cancer research, researchers are finding that sugar consumption causes a sudden spike in the hormone insulin, which can serve as a catalyst to fuel certain types of cancers, including those of the breasts and colon.
Think that you can satisfy your sweet tooth by consuming artificial sweeteners? Think again. A study of rats that were fed artificially sweetened food found that their metabolism slowed down, and they were triggered to consume more calories and gain more weight than rats fed sugar-sweetened food. Similarly, people who consume diet drinks regularly have a 200 percent increased risk of weight gain, a 36 percent increased risk of pre-diabetes or metabolic syndrome, and a 67 percent increased risk of diabetes.
What to do? An American Heart Association report recommends that men should consume no more than 150 calories of added sugars a day, and women should consume just 100 calories. That’s less than the amount in one can of soda.
A. because high fructose corn syrup was believed to be healthier than regular sugar
B. because farmers who grew corn wanted to expand the market for corn products
C. because low fructose corn syrup had been linked to heart disease
D. to make up for the loss of taste caused by reducing the fat content of processed foods
If you’re like many Americans, you’re probably consuming far more sugar than you realize. Much of this sugar comes in the form of high-fructose corn syrup, which the food industry began adding to virtually all processed foods in the 1970s. This was back when the consumption of fat was first linked to heart disease. With the best of intentions, the food industry reduces the fat content in many processed foods. Unfortunately, low-fat foods taste like cardboard, so the food industry added high fructose corn syrup to make them “tasty” once more. As a result, while the consumption of table sugar has gone down, the consumption of high-fructose corn syrup has skyrocketed. The problem is that research now links sugar consumption in any form to a host of health problems, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and even cancer. Some researchers are going so far as to label sugar “toxic.”
Recent studies at the University of California, Davis, show that when a person consumes too much sugar, the liver gets overloaded with fructose and converts some of it into fat. Some of that fat ends up in the bloodstream and helps generate an especially dangerous kind of cholesterol called small dense LDL. These LDL particles are known to lodge in blood vessels, form plaque, and cause heart attacks. In addition, sugar has become a major focus in cancer research, researchers are finding that sugar consumption causes a sudden spike in the hormone insulin, which can serve as a catalyst to fuel certain types of cancers, including those of the breasts and colon.
Think that you can satisfy your sweet tooth by consuming artificial sweeteners? Think again. A study of rats that were fed artificially sweetened food found that their metabolism slowed down, and they were triggered to consume more calories and gain more weight than rats fed sugar-sweetened food. Similarly, people who consume diet drinks regularly have a 200 percent increased risk of weight gain, a 36 percent increased risk of pre-diabetes or metabolic syndrome, and a 67 percent increased risk of diabetes.
What to do? An American Heart Association report recommends that men should consume no more than 150 calories of added sugars a day, and women should consume just 100 calories. That’s less than the amount in one can of soda.
(Adapted from Ten Steps to Advanced Reading)
According to the passage, the food industry added high fructose corn syrup to processed foods ______.A. because high fructose corn syrup was believed to be healthier than regular sugar
B. because farmers who grew corn wanted to expand the market for corn products
C. because low fructose corn syrup had been linked to heart disease
D. to make up for the loss of taste caused by reducing the fat content of processed foods
Theo đoạn văn, ngành công nghiệp thực phẩm đã thêm siro ngô có hàm lượng fructose cao vào thực phẩm chế biến _____.
A. vì siro ngô có hàm lượng fructose cao được cho là lành mạnh hơn đường thông thường
B. vì các nông dân trồng ngô muốn mở rộng thị trường cho các sản phẩm ngô
C. vì siro ngô có hàm lượng fructose thấp có liên quan tới bệnh tim
D. để bù đắp cho sự mất hương vị do giảm hàm lượng chất béo trong thực phẩm chế biến
Thông tin:
With the best of intentions, the food industry reduces the fat content in many processed foods. Unfortunately, low-fat foods taste like cardboard, so the food industry added high fructose corn syrup to make them “tasty” once more. (Với rất nhiều dự định tốt đẹp ban đầu, ngành công nghiệp thực phẩm giảm hàm lượng chất béo trong nhiều đồ ăn chế biến. Không may là, thức ăn ít chất béo lại có vị như bìa cứng, vì thế ngành công nghiệp thực phẩm đã thêm siro ngô có fructose cao để khiến chúng “ngon hơn”.)
A. vì siro ngô có hàm lượng fructose cao được cho là lành mạnh hơn đường thông thường
B. vì các nông dân trồng ngô muốn mở rộng thị trường cho các sản phẩm ngô
C. vì siro ngô có hàm lượng fructose thấp có liên quan tới bệnh tim
D. để bù đắp cho sự mất hương vị do giảm hàm lượng chất béo trong thực phẩm chế biến
Thông tin:
With the best of intentions, the food industry reduces the fat content in many processed foods. Unfortunately, low-fat foods taste like cardboard, so the food industry added high fructose corn syrup to make them “tasty” once more. (Với rất nhiều dự định tốt đẹp ban đầu, ngành công nghiệp thực phẩm giảm hàm lượng chất béo trong nhiều đồ ăn chế biến. Không may là, thức ăn ít chất béo lại có vị như bìa cứng, vì thế ngành công nghiệp thực phẩm đã thêm siro ngô có fructose cao để khiến chúng “ngon hơn”.)
Đáp án D.