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Passage Three
文章三
An average person consumes 144 pints of milk a year, but 40% of that is poured onto cereal and 60% of those people are children.
平均每人每年消耗144品脫的牛奶，但其中40%都被倒入谷物，這樣做的人中60%是兒童。
But what was once advertised as nutritious is becoming unpopular.
但是曾經被宣傳為營養食物的牛奶現在變得不受歡迎了。
Americans drink 37% less milk than they did in the 1970s.
美國人喝的牛奶比上世紀70年代減少了37%。
And in the UK, dairy consumption overall has fallen by a third in the past 20 years.
在英國，乳制品消費量在過去20年里下降了三分之一。
Milk is increasingly being described in a negative light.
人們逐漸用負面的評價來描述牛奶。
A recent blog suggested:" Maybe people are drinking less milk because it is poisonous to many of us".
最近的一篇博客建議:“也許人們少喝牛奶是因為它對我們很多人來說是有毒的。”
Lactose is the sugar found in milk and dairy products.
乳糖是存在于牛奶和乳制品中的糖。
It needs a series of complex proteins to break it down.
它需要一系列復雜的蛋白質來分解它。
Without enough of these proteins, the lactose is broken down by bacteria in the human body.
如果缺乏足夠的這些蛋白質，乳糖就會被人體內的細菌分解。
This can cause physical pain and produce gas in the stomach.
這會引起身體疼痛，并在胃里產生氣體。
However, after we have finished breast or formula feeding, most of us don't continue producing the complex proteins in our body, which are necessary to break down the lactose.
然而，在進行母乳喂養或配方奶喂養后，我們大多數人不會在體內繼續產生分解乳糖所必需的復雜蛋白質。
Despite the problems in digesting milk, it does provide many benefits.
盡管在消化牛奶方面存在問題，它確實有很多好處。
Milk is nutritious, it contains vitamins A and D as well as protein and isn't full of calories.
牛奶很有營養，它含有維生素A和D以及蛋白質，而且熱量不高。
You can test yourself by drinking a large glass of milk.
你可以喝一大杯牛奶來測試自己。
If you get sick in your stomach within the next 24 hours, you are lacking the proteins to digest milk.
如果在接下來的24小時內感到胃部不適，你就缺乏消化牛奶的蛋白質。
Questions 22~25 are based on the passage you have just heard.
請根據你剛剛聽到的短文回答22~25題。
Question 22: What does the passage say about Americans?
問題22:這篇文章描述了美國人的什么情況?
Question 23: How do Americans and British people think of milk nowadays?
問題23:現在美國人和英國人是如何看待牛奶的?
Question 24: Why does drinking milk cause pain in some people?
問題24:為什么有些人喝牛奶會感到疼痛?
Question 25: What does the passage say is a benefit of milk?
問題25:這篇文章說牛奶的好處是什么?
