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Even a small reduction in salt in the diet can be a big help to the heart. A new study used a computer model to predict how just three grams less a day would affect heart disease in the United States.

The result：10％ fewer heart attacks. 8％ fewer strokes. 4％ fewer deaths. 11％ fewer new cases of heart disease. And 240 billion dollars in health care savings.

Researchers found it could prevent 10，000 heart attacks and 9。200 deaths every year.

The study is in the New England Journal of Medicine. Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo at the University of California San Francisco was the lead author. She says people would not even notice a difference in taste with three grams， or one-half teaspoon，less salt per day. The team also included researchers at Stanford and Columbia Uni versity.

Each gram of salt contains four hundred milligrams of sodium（鈉），which is how foods may list their salt content.

The government says the average American man eats ten grams of salt a day. The American Heart Association advises no more than three grams for healthy people. It says salt in the American diet has increased fifty percent since the nineteen seventies， while blood pressures have also risen. Less salt can mean a lower blood pressure.

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is leading an effort called the National Salt Reduction Initiative. The idea is to put pressure on food companies and restaurants. Critics call it government interference.

Mayor Bloomberg has already succeeded in other areas， like requiring fast food places in the city to list calorie information. Now a study by the Seattle Children’s Research Institute shows that the calorie information on the menu can influence what parents order for their children.

1.We can tell from the passage that now        heart attacks occur in the US every year.

A．240，000

B．900，000

C．100，000

D．92，000

2.It can be inferred from the passage that           .

A．all the heart diseases result from eating too much salt

B．the American Heart Association suggests less than 3 grams of salt a day for everyone

C．Americans ate no more than 5 grams of salt per day in the 1970s

D．the less salt one eats， the healthier he will be

3.The last paragraph mainly tells us            .

A．Bloomberg has made some other efforts to improve people’s health

B．Bloomberg is very successful in his career

C．parents must pay great attention to calorie information

D．a new study is being done about calorie information

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.A

【解析】文章講述的是美國正在努力減少本國人鹽攝入量，因為食鹽攝入過多對健康有害。

1.B 計算題。根據第2段The result：10％ fewer heart attacks.說明少吃3克鹽可以減少百分之10的心臟病，第三段Researchers found it could prevent 10，000 heart attacks研究人員發現可以預防100.000，那么10.000是百分之十，那么B正確。

2.C 計算題、根據第六段. The government says the average American man eats ten grams of salt a day. 和 It says salt in the American diet has increased fifty percent since the nineteen seventies，說明美國人現在一天吃10克鹽，比70年代多了百分之50，說明70年代大約每天吃5克，故C正確。

3.A 段落大意題。本段第一句Mayor Bloomberg has already succeeded in other areas說明紐約市長在其它方面也做出了努力。故A正確。