Australiaisanationofpetloversbutitmaybelovingitsanim...

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    Australia is a nation of pet lovers but it may be loving its animals to death because pet owners pass on rising levels of obesity(肥胖) by overfeeding their cats and dogs, the country's main animals welfare body says. Despite its image as a sports-mad country full of fit, sun-bronzed youth, Australia in reality is battling the obesity and challenging the United States as the world’s fattest nation. The problem now extends to household pets.

 Obesity rates for Australia have doubled over the past 20 years, with 62 percent of men and 45 percent of women overweight. The same trend applies to household pets, with an increase in the number of overweight cats and dogs being dealt with by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals(RSPCA)， and even one case of a fat pet mouse. “It's a big problem, and quite reflective of what's happening in the human situation,” said Mark Lawrie, the RSPCA's chief . Australia is a nation of 20 million people, almost 4 million dogs, 2.5 million cats, 8.7 million pet birds and more than 12 million pet fish. It has one of the world's highest rates of pet ownership at 64 percent of households, compared to 62 percent in the United States and 44 percent in Britain.

Lawrie said that surveys had found that between 40 and 44 percent of dogs and more than one in three household cats were now overweight, due to poor diet and a lack of exercises. Fat cats and dogs were much easier to suffer from heart problems and liver disease. The RSPCA said low levels of exercises had an impact on pet obesity, but the key problem was over-eating.

32. In Australia many pets are involved in obesity problem due to the fact that __________.

   A. they are fed too much                    B. they dislike doing physical exercise

C. their owners suffer from similar problems    D. their diet is poor in nutrition.

33. It is certainly a problem to Australians that __________.

A. there are too many household pets in the country

B. they don't know how to deal with the overweight pets

C. their country is the world's fattest nation

D. more and more people are becoming over-weighted

34. We can infer from the passage that __________.

   A. there is a variety of households pets, mice included in Australia

   B. dogs are the most popular household pets in Australia

   C. all Australians love sports exercises

   D. nobody is really concerned about pet obesity

35. The passage is best titled with __________.

A. Love Me, Love My Dog              B. Loving Your Pets To Death

   C. How to Keep Pets                   D. A travel in Australia

【回答】

A D A B

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