2019年12月英语六级考试阅读美文赏析2

同学们在备考时可以根据坦途网英语六级考试频道更新的历年真题总结出英语六级考试阅读技巧，这可以锻炼大家的归纳能力。其实美文赏析也是一样，虽然没有考题，但是也相当于一篇阅读理解，大家可以按照考试要求练习速度，对阅读理解也是有帮助的。

Food and Health

The food we eat seems to have profound effects on our health. Although science has made enormous steps in making food more fit to eat, it has, at the same time, made many foods unfit to eat. Some research has shown that perhaps eighty percent of all human illnesses are related to diet and forty percent of cancer is related to the diet as well, especially cancer of the colon. Different cultures are more prone to contract certain illnesses because of the food that is characteristic in these cultures. That food is related to illness is not a new discovery. In 1945, government researchers realized that nitrates and nitrites, commonly used to preserve color in meats, and other food additives, caused cancer. Yet, these carcinogenic additives remain in our food, and it becomes more difficult all the time to know which things in the packaging labels of processed food are helpful or harmful. The additives which we eat are not all so direct. Farmers often give penicillin to beef and poultry, and because of this, penicillin has been found in the milk of treated cows. Sometimes similar drugs are administered to animals not for medicinal purposes, but for financial reasons. The farmers are simply trying to fatten the animals in order to obtain a higher price on the market. Although the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tried repeatedly to control these procedures, the practices continue.

同学们对于今天更新的美文赏析有什么感受吗？美文阅读不仅仅是通读一遍就结束了，更多的是学习好句式的表达，思考怎么把这些优美的句子应用到作文中，并且思考有没有提高自己的阅读速度，语感有没有提升，这些都是同学们需要注意的问题，只要解决了所有问题，英语六级考试也就胜券在握了。