第十三期 (4/7) - 英语听力.mp3

[00:01.00]Passage One
[00:04.08]Barbara Cooney, whose name appears on one hundred ten books in all,
[00:08.91]was the creator of many popular children's books.
[00:13.22]For 60 years she wrote some, and she provided pictures for her own books and for books written by others.
[00:22.18]Barbara Cooney was born in New York City in nineteen seventeen.
[00:27.49]Her mother was an artist and her father sold stocks on the stock market.
[00:32.64]Barbara Cooney was known for her carefully detailed work.
[00:36.60]One example is in her artwork for the book "Eleanor".
[00:40.76]It is about Eleanor Roosevelt, who became the wife of President Franklin Roosevelt.
[00:47.17]Cooney made sure that a dress worn by Eleanor as a baby was historically correct down to the smallest details.
[00:56.01]One of her books is called "Hattie and the Wild Waves". It is based on the childhood of her mother.
[01:03.64]The girl Hattie lives in a wealthy family in New York.
[01:09.16]One day she tells her family that she wants to be a painter when she grows up.
[01:14.86]The other children make fun of the idea of a girl wanting to paint houses.
[01:21.02]Many of Barbara Cooney's later books took place in the small northeastern state of Maine.
[01:28.25]She spent summers there when she was a child, then moved to Maine in her later years. She loved Maine.
[01:36.56]She gave her local library almost a million dollars. The state showed its love for her.
[01:43.30]In 1996, the governor of Maine declared Barbara Cooney a State Treasure.
[01:49.21]Passage Two
[01:51.79]American children now eat an average of three snacks a day between meals
[01:57.41]and those snacks add up to almost one-third of all the daily calories eaten by children.
[02:04.20]And those extra calories could help explain the rise in overweight children in the United States.
[02:12.15]Another reason is that these teenagers have little time to do some sports.
[02:18.21]The snacking has increased since the nineteen seventies.
[02:22.48]And what kinds of snacks have increased the most?
[02:26.36]Salty, high-fat foods like chips, cake, cookies.
[02:31.73]Some experts say parents should limit snacks to one a day for children age six and older.
[02:39.86]They also advise parents to provide healthy snacks like fruits and vegetables.
[02:46.34]American schools also need to improve their nutrition.
[02:51.03]For example, schools may have selling machines that offer what many people would consider junk food.
[02:58.48]There has been a push for schools to offer more healthful snacks and lunch choices and fewer sugary drinks.
[03:06.77]Earlier this month Coca-Cola said it would stop selling sugary drinks in American schools unless parents requested them.
[03:16.38]Its competitors at Pepsi just announced that they will stop sales of sugared drinks to schools worldwide.
[03:24.93]It's needed to do a much better job of making sure that what's in those selling machines is very consistent.
[03:33.71]It's thought that the time has come for standards.
[03:37.91]There is a growing consensus in the society that eating high fat food
[03:43.45]will bring much trouble for the American society and the young people,
[03:48.66]such as many diseases related to high fat.