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Today, three-quarters of all American women and half of all American men
believe that they're too fat. Whether they are in fact heavy and their weight is
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endangering their health (7)is beside the point. In response, the food and
health-care market is full of fat-free, cholesterol-free and "natural" products
5 promising beauty and bounding vigor. There is a growing awareness of not only
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(1)" you are what you eat, but also "you should simply see the beauty in who you
are." For example, although the big busted woman is often valued as an
American beauty ideal many are now advocating that "small is beautiful, as in
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the book titled Small Busted Women Have Big Hearts.
Advertisers know that women in particular can have difficulty in simply seeing
the beauty that they possess that (2)it never seems quite good enough. One is
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always too fat or too skinny, too tall or too short, too big or too small. Many
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women, perhaps men, too, tend to (4) constantly compare themselves to others.
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And this need for comparison brings anxieties, ()not to mention a great potential
15 for somebody to make money from those anxieties.
The food and health-care market relies on that weakness in people, especially
growing teenagers, promising to satisfy their strong need to be accepted (pop
and loved .... Yet the sellers of health-care products never did tell us just how
they can deliver this enormous promise, did they?
20 People are perhaps beginning to believe that life is much more pleasant when
they learn to appreciate what they do have instead of worrying about what they
don't have. Life is much too short to be enslaved by the virtual tyranny of ideal
body images, which change from decade to decade

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1. 下線部(1)の意味に最も近いものをadから1つ選びなさい。
a. you must be careful not to eat strange food
b. your favorite dishes express your personality
c. your weight determines your bust size
d. your health and appearance depends on your food
2. 下線部(2)を “it” の内容がわかるような日本語に、25字以内で訳しなさい(句読点
を含まない)。
3. 下線部(ア), (イ), (ウ)を以下のように書き換えた場合、 それぞれの空所に入るべき1
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(7) doesn't have ( ) to ( ) with the subject
(1) make) comparison (1) themselves and others
() to say (
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4. 本文の内容と合致するものをah から2つ選びなさい。
a. Nowadays it is said that big busted women tend to have heart attacks so
often that they think small busted women are much healthier.
b. Women have difficulty seeing themselves as they are, especially when it
comes to their appearances so they are always complaining about how
they look.
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Comparison sometimes improves you, but most of the time it increases
your anxieties and makes you so unhappy that you are driven to buy
things.
d. The idea that being overweight is not good for one's health has driven
people to dieting.
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e. The food and health-care business does not necessarily take advantage of
people's need to be loved and accepted by society and does not care about
the result.
The food and self-care business is flourishing because people are told that
being overweight prevents social success.