In western countries, more and more foods have
additives in them. What are additives? Additives are chemicals which are put
into foods to give them color and taste, to stop them going bad and so on. But
doctors say that some additives can be very bad for our health.
Now let’s look at how additives can be bad for our
health. For example, a little English girl called Sally Jones is two years old
and quite ordinary (普通的). But when she was younger, she never went
to sleep at night. She never got tired. Her parents were very worried. Finally,
Sally’s parents took her to a special doctor.
The doctor said that she must never eat food with a
dditives
in it. He was sure that the additives had a very b
ad
effect on her body, and made her too active. He was quite correct. As soon as
Sally started to ea
t
foods with no additives, she began to sleep well at night.
Now she is the same as other little girls, except that
she can’t eat many foods that other children love, such as ice-creams, because
they have additives in them.
根据短文内容,回答下列问题。
1.What’s the Chinese meaning of the word “additive”?
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2.What are the functions (功能) of the additives?
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3.Did Sally like sleeping at night before she went to
see the doctor?
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4.What happened to Sally when she stopped eating the
foods with additives?
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5.Why can’t Sally eat ice-creams?