【单选题】
下面有3篇短文，每篇短文后有5道题，每道题后面有4个选项。
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"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 inAfrica!" 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.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 professor at Pennsylvania State University, told USA、Today that restaurant portion sizes began to grow in the 1970s, the same time that theAmerican waistline began to expanD、
Health experts have tried to get many restaurants to serve smaller portions. Now, apparently, some customers are calling for this too. The restaurant industry trade magazine QSR reported last month that 57 percent of more than 4,000 people surveyed believe restaurants serve portions that are too large; 23 percent had no opinion; 20 percent disagreeD、But a closer look at the survey indicates that manyAmericans who can’t afford free 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 classAmericans don’t want to eat healthy. It’s just that, after long hours at low-paying jobs, getting less on their plate hardly seems like a good deal. They live from paycheck to paycheck, happy to save a little money for next year’sChristmas presents.
BecauseAmericans have big bellies.
C．BecauseAmericans are good eaters.
D．BecauseAmericans are greedy.
网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
问题问的是：美国饭馆为什么饭菜给得多 第二段相关的话是这么说的：美国人在传统上把东西值不值是跟数量联系在一起，因此大多数的饭馆给的量大。这些饭馆乐于让顾客们抱怨饭菜给得太多而不乐于让他们抱怨饭菜给得太少。所以A是正确的答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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