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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.1 - Food for thought for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the article and answer the questions.
  2. Explain what each phrase (1-6) means.

Answer

a)

  1. There were two experiments. One was where Morgan Spurlock ate three McDonald's meals every day for a month. He also had to agree to 'super-size' the meal each time an employee asked if he wanted to. In the second experiment, scientists compared the behaviour of rats who were fed a low-fat diet over the same period.
  2. Similar results - in both experiments, the high-fat diets high led to severe health damage.

b)

  1. a much large amount
  2. eat / drink a lot of food containing high levels of fat
  3. getting fatter and heavier was one bad consequence of the experiment - but there were others too
  4. a way of quickly predicting what your future life will be like
  5. consequences which will happen quickly as opposed to long-term effects, where it takes much longer to see the consequences
  6. bring about more damage