C

Whenever we turn on the TV or radio, read the newspapers, surf the Internet, we’ll be surrounded by the word “diet” everywhere. We have so easily been attracted by the promise of diet

products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically (心理上地)and physically.

It’s obvious that diet products weaken us psychologically. They allow us to jump over the thinking stage that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fat. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word “diet” in food labels.

What’s more, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves that we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and straggle.

As a matter of fact, the danger that diet products bring not only lies in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm they cause. Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. And they can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are stopping our bodies having basic nutrients. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemicals that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.

Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Think twice before buying diet products. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore, prevent the psychological and physical harm that comes from using them.

28. From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.

A. diet products are in our daily life

B. people have trouble choosing diet products

C. people should put up with diet products

D. diet products are misleading people

29. The psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to ________.

A. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods

B. pay attention to their daily diet

C. watch their weight rather than their diet

D. try out varieties of diet foods

30. The underlined part in Paragraph 3 probably means _________.

A. diet products cause no pain B. it costs a lot to lose weight

C. losing weight is effortless D. diet products are free of fat and calories

31. Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ________.

A. are over-consumed B. are short of basic nutrients

C. lack chemicals D. provide too much energy

D

According to a survey, more Europeans go digital — changing from fixed lines to mobile phones and from narrowband to broadband Internet connections.

The survey showed that 22 percent of EU households use only mobile phones, up from 18 percent a year ago, while the percentage of households with at least one fixed line decreased by 5 percent to 72 percent, although the percentage of households with at least one mobile phone remains fairly stable at 81percent.

Broadband is presenting a rapid upward trend in the EU, showed the survey, which polled(对……进行民意调查)27,000 households across the union. Twenty-eight percent of households are now connected to the Internet via high-speed “broadband” links, up six percent from last year, while narrowband usage has dipped by three percentage points to 12 percent. More than half of households access the Internet via an ADSL line and 34 percent of broadband connections are wireless.

“Europe’s digital economy is growing strongly as more and more households love to choose between fixed, mobile and Internet services,” said EU Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding. “The challenge of this year’s reform of the EU’s telecom rules will be to respond to this rapidly changing technological environment while enhancing(提高)at the same time effective competition.”

Meanwhile, nearly 20 percent of Europeans buy two or more telecom products from a single service provider, the combination of fixed telephony and Internet access being the most common. The result may strengthen the commission’s case for breaking up telecom giants, whose control over the fixed line networks was accused of hindering(妨碍)competition. “Today’s survey findings will feed into the ongoing public debate on the reform of the EU telecom rules, planned for summer this year,” said Reding.

32. Today, the percentage of households with at least one fixed line goes down to ________.

A. 34% B. 22% C. 72% D. 81%

33. What will be covered in this year’s reform of the EU’s telecom rules?

A. The quickly changing technological environment.

B. The plan to stop the use of the fixed lines.

C. Breaking up telecom giants.

D. The ongoing public debate on global economy.

34. If a European will buy telecom products from a single service provider, what will be the result?

A. Less than two services are provided for customers.

B. Competition will become fierce in the telecom field.

C. A plan on the reform of the telecom is breaking up.

D. It becomes more difficult to fight off big companies’ control.

35. The best title of this article is ________.

A. Mobile Phones Become Popular B. More Europeans Go Digital

C. The disappearance of the fixed line D. The Rules of the EU’s Telecom