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Would you eat a ready meal from the fridge rather than cook all by yourself?
你會吃冰箱里現成的食物還是會自己做飯？
Have you been doing Internet shopping rather than going to the stores? What can't you be bothered to do?
你是不是經常網購而不去實體店？有什么事情是你懶得做的？
A study into how lazy British people are has found more than half of adults are so idle they'd catch the lift rather than climb two flights of stairs.
一項調查英國人到底有多懶的研究發現有50%的成年人上二樓選擇乘電梯而不用樓梯。
Just over 2,000 people were quizzed by independent researchers at Nuffield Health, Britain's largest health charity. The results were startling.
該項調查是由來自英國最大的健康慈善機構——納菲爾德健康中心的獨立調查員在超過2000人的研究對象中進行的。調查結果令人震驚：
About one in six people surveyed said if their remote control was broken, they would continue watching the same channel rather than get up.
六分之一的被調查者表示如果電視的遙控器壞掉了，他們會一直看一個頻道而不會起身；
More than one third of those questioned said they would not run to catch a bus.
超過三分之一的人表示他們不會為了趕公交車跑上幾步；
Worryingly, of the 654 respondents with children, 64% said they were often too tired to play with them.
更讓人擔心的是，654位已為人父母的被調查者當中64%說他們常常因為太累而不和孩子一塊兒玩；
This led the report to conclude that it's no wonder that one in six children in the UK are classified as obese before they start school.
這一調查結果似乎對為什么會有六分之一英國孩子學前被歸類為肥胖兒童作出了解釋。
Dr.Sarah Dauncey, medical director of Nuffield Health, said, "People need to get fitter, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of their families, friends and evidently their pets too."
納菲爾德健康中心的醫療主管薩拉·當西說，“人們需要讓自己健康起來，這不僅對他們自己好，對他們的家人、朋友、而且顯然對他們的寵物也是好事。”
And Scotland's largest city, Glasgow, was shamed as the most inactive city in the UK, with 75% surveyed admitting they do not get enough exercise, followed closely by Birmingham and Southampton, both with 67%.
蘇格蘭最大的城市格拉斯哥很不光彩地被認定為英國“最不活躍”的城市。來自該城市的被調查者中有75%承認他們平時沒有做足夠的鍛煉，緊隨其后的是貝靈頓和南安普頓，兩個城市缺乏鍛煉者比例都是67%。
The results pose serious challenges for the National Health Service, where obesity-related illnesses such as heart disease and cancer have been on a steady increase for the past 40 years and are costing billions of pounds every year.
這一調查結果對英國國民醫療保健體系帶來了巨大挑戰。過去四十年里英國與肥胖相關疾病，如：心臟病、 癌癥等，的發病率持續上升，英國國民醫療保健體系每年都要面臨數十億英鎊的醫療費用。
Questions 19-22 are based on the passage you have just heard.
請根據剛剛聽得短文回答16-18題。
19. What does the study in Britain focus on?
19. 英國的這項調查的重點是什么？
20. What did some people in the survey say they would do if their remote control was broken?
20.被調查者當中一些人說如果遙控器壞了他們會怎么做？
21. What is mentioned as a possible cause of British children's obesity?
21.英國兒童肥胖的一個可能原因是什么？
22. Which city is found out to be the laziest one?
22.研究發現哪座城市是“最懶”城市？
