[单项选择]Finally, good news on the obesity epidemic (流行): Though their parents and older siblings are just as overweight as ever, little kids around the country are considerably slimming down.
Obesity in children aged 2-5 has declined 43% in the last decade, according to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data recently released in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Nearly 14% of young ones were considered obese in 2004 compared to a little over 8% in 2012. While this is undoubtedly a move in the right direction, obesity rates for older children and adults remain stalled (停滞).
The reason behind the drop isn’t clear, but several moves have been made in the last decade to combat the country’s growing weight, and many of the initiatives have focused on our youngest citizens.
CDC Director Tom Frieden says he’s seen "signs from communities around the country with obesity prevention programs including Anchorage, Alaska, Philadelphia, New York City, and King County, Washingt
A. It is easier for them to slim down than adults.
B. They are temporarily affected by the excess weight.
C. They tend to suffer from poor nutrition.
D. They are more likely to be less confident.

[单项选择]Finally, good news on the obesity epidemic (流行): Though their parents and older siblings are just as overweight as ever, little kids around the country are considerably slimming down.
Obesity in children aged 2-5 has declined 43% in the last decade, according to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data recently released in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Nearly 14% of young ones were considered obese in 2004 compared to a little over 8% in 2012. While this is undoubtedly a move in the right direction, obesity rates for older children and adults remain stalled (停滞).
The reason behind the drop isn’t clear, but several moves have been made in the last decade to combat the country’s growing weight, and many of the initiatives have focused on our youngest citizens.
CDC Director Tom Frieden says he’s seen "signs from communities around the country with obesity prevention programs including Anchorage, Alaska, Philadelphia, New York City, and King County, Washingt
A. Previous news on the obesity epidemic has been disappointing.
B. Researchers have just found a solution to the obesity epidemic.
C. New research on the obesity epidemic has come to an end.
D. Federal nutrition programs have yielded expected results.

[单项选择]Happy Earth Day
The Good News
Here’s the good news: our air is cleaner, our lakes are purer, our forests are healthier, endangered species are recovering, toxic emissions are down, and acid rain has diminished dramatically. And yet, if you’ve looked at a newspaper or watched the evening news lately, you might think our environment is under siege (围攻). Media Coverage of the environment is heavy on doomsday, but the truth is not at all bleak: nearly all environmental trends in the United States are positive and have been for years—if not decades.
Eco-legislation, green organizations, corporate cooperation and new inventions have all quietly steered our environment in a positive direction. We can’t afford to be complacent (自满的), though—especially when it comes to greenhouse gases, since global warming is the one huge problem we haven’t really tackled. But almost every measure taken by government agencies and grass-roots efforts to improve the environment has
A. grass-roots organizations
B. individual activism
C. environmentalists
D. environmental regulation

[单项选择]What was the good news for scientists
A. The underground oil resources have not been affected.
B. Most of the desert animals and plants have managed to survive.
C. The oil lakes soon dried up and stopped evaporating.
D. The underground water resources have not been polluted.

[单项选择]A. Why no news is good news.
B. Why everything is so slow.
C. Why her family has forgotten about her.
D. Why she didn’t hear from her family.

[单项选择]The authorities may announce good news in several ways. Which of the following is NOT one of these ways as mentioned in the talk（　）
A. Issuing statements or communiqu s.
B. Calling press conferences.
C. Making public speeches.
D. Calling on the people to parade in streets.

[填空题]No news (be) ______ good news.

[单项选择]The good news made headlines nationwide: Deaths from several kinds of cancer have declined significantly in recent years. But the news has to be bittersweet for many cancer patients and their families. Every year, more than 500, 000 people in the United States still die of cancer. In fact, more than half of all patients diagnosed with cancer will die of their disease within a few years. And while its true survival is longer today than in the past, the quality of life for these patients is often greatly diminished. Cancer—and many of the treatments used to fight it—causes pain, nausea, fatigue, and anxiety that routinely go undertreated or untreated.
In the nation’s single-minded focus on curing cancer, we have inadvertently devalued the critical need for palliative care, which focuses on alleviating physical and psychological symptoms over the course of the disease. Nothing would have a greater impact on the daily lives of cancer patients and their families than good symptom contr
A. improving cancer research in the U.S..
B. reforming insurance coverage for cancer patients.
C. understanding different options for cancer treatment and care.
D. reducing the suffering of cancer patients.