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Unit 3 Healthy Lifestyle
单元素养评估测试卷
第I卷
I. Listening Comprehension
II. Grammar and Vocabulary
Section A
Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.
The family who eats together
What’s the price of a family meal? For many families in the world’s wealthiest countries, the answer seems to be, ‘too much’. For instance, in the United States, ___1___ is often a trendsetter in such things, the majority of families report eating a single meal together fewer than five days a week. In fact, the frequency of shared meals ___2___ (decrease) in American families by 33 per cent over the last twenty years. The meals ___3___ have shortened too: from an average of 90 minutes to just 12 minutes.
So perhaps we’re better off asking ourselves ___4___ the cost of not eating together is. Once again, we could turn to the figures. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has found that 15-year-olds who reported not regularly ___5___ (share) family meals were twice as likely to be absent from school. In Europe, research has suggested that children who don’t eat dinner with their parents at least twice a week face a 40 per cent higher risk of fatness. Another study, ___6___ (conduct) by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (滥用) at Columbia University, found that kids who eat dinner with their parents five or more times a week are ___7___ (likely) to have problems with drugs and alcohol.
But those numbers, impressive ___8___ they seem, may be beside the point. After all, having a meal together is more than just a preventive measure ___9___ future misfortune. The primary cost of the family meal is also the very thing that makes it important: time.
The time spent together over food leads to all the positive outcomes that are measure