UPM-CALC/SEM2/2019-2020/LPE2401/SCL 2

SCL 2

Due date: 15 March 2020

Read the text on page 53-54 of your textbook and answer the following questions.

Section A: Comprehension

1. What is the passage about?

It is proposed that taxes on unhealthy food and soft drinks ，subsidize the purchase of
staple foods

2. How can having a healthy diet solve the health care issue?

If we have healthy diet，We can have a balanced food, stay away from unhealthy foods,

and reduce the occurrence of diseases.

3. List down THREE types of foods that are considered as ‘profitable’ in America?
• soda
• French fries
• doughnuts

4. Why should the government subsidise healthy foods? (to make healthy foods more
affordable and widely available).
This is urgent for economic sanity as well as national health.

Section B: Making inferences

1. The following questions are based on the following sentence.

“Though experts increasingly recommend a diet high in plants and low in animal
products and processed foods, ours is quite the opposite, and there’s little
disagreement that changing it could improve our health and save tens of millions of
lives”.

i. Identify the meaning of the words and their parts of speech.

Word Meaning Part of speech
recommend (line 7) Express a good opinion of v
opposite (line 10) Contrary n
disagreement (line 10) Difference, Disagree n

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ii. What are the words or phrases that the following pronoun refers to in the passage?
it (line 11): high in plants and low in animal products and processed foods.

iii. From the sentence above, what can you infer about the style of American diet?

The style of American diet is eat more animal products and processed foods, eat less
plant.

2. The following questions are based on the following sentence.

“And whether its leaders are confused or just stalling doesn’t matter, because the fixes
are not really their problem”.

i. Identify the meaning of the words and their parts of speech.

Word Meaning Part of speech
confused (line 20) Mistake one thing for adj
another
stalling (line 21) a tactic used to mislead or n
delay
fixes (line 22) repairs n

ii. What are the words or phrases that the following pronoun refers to in the passage?
their (line 11): leader.

iii. From the sentence above, what can you infer about the attitude of the leaders of the
food industry ?
Maybe confused, they stalling and don’t want to do.
3. The following questions are based on the following sentence.

“Their mission is not public health but profit, so they’ll continue to sell the health-
damaging food that’s most profitable, until the market or another force makes them do
otherwise”.

i. Identify the meaning of the words and their parts of speech.

Word Meaning Part of speech
mission (line 23) assignment n
profitable (line 26) Promoting benefit and gain adj

ii. What are the words or phrases that the following pronoun refers to in the passage?
they (line 24): leader.

iii. From the sentence above, what can you infer about the business strategy of the food
industry?

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Put profit first and focus on getting more profit.

4. The following questions are based on the following sentence.

“And since the rate of diabetes continues to soar – one-third of all Americans either have
diabetes or pre-diabetic, most with Type 2 diabetes – the kind associated with bad eating
habits – and because our health care bills are about to become truly insurmountable,
this is urgent for economic sanity as well as national health”.

i. Identify the meaning of the words and their parts of speech.

Word Meaning Part of speech
soar (line 75) Rise rapidly n
insurmountable (line 77) not capable of being adj
surmounted or overcome

ii. What are the words or phrases that the following pronoun refers to in the passage?
this (line 77): the rate of diabetes continues to soar.

iii. From the sentence above, what can you infer about the health state of Americans?
the rate of diabetes continues to soar, the health state of Americans is not good.

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