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1. Who conducted the study described in the article? 


Yale University

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The passage analyzes two sides of this argument: Are fast-food restaurants doing enough to promote healthier menu selections? Which of the following is most likely the author’s point of view? 

  1. Fast-food restaurants should be closed until they promote healthier menus. 
  2. Fast-food restaurants are promoting too many healthy selections. 
  3. Most fast-food restaurants are doing enough to promote healthy choices. 
  4. Fast-food restaurants need to do more to promote healthy choices. 


Fast-food restaurants need to do more to promote healthy choices

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What is insulin? 

Insulin is a hormone that helps the body use the sugar in food for energy.

200

Why does the writer include the 11th paragraph (“In an e-mail to WR News, Neil Golden…”) in the passage? 

  1. to warn people about the dangers of obesity 
  2. to show the perspective of McDonald’s
  3. to describe the contents of a Happy Meal 
  4. to persuade people to order Apple Dippers


to show the perspective of McDonald’s

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How might Jennifer Harris feel if fast-food restaurants stopped advertising to kids? How do you know?

She would most likely be happy since she is a critic of their advertising techniques. Harris is quoted saying, “If they had done what they said they were going to do, they would show only Apple Dippers and milk in their advertising to children. ... The ads usually only show the [Happy Meal] box or the toy that comes with the Happy Meal.”

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The primary purpose of this passage is to describe 

  1. the results of a new study on fast-food restaurants
  2. both the pros and cons of eating fast food once a week 
  3. the problem of childhood obesity in the United States 
  4. why fast-food restaurants are becoming more popular


  1. the results of a new study on fast-food restaurants