東京医科大学英語2013年第5問

次の英文の内容と合っていると思われるものを、下に示した(1)~(18)のなかから5つ選びなさい。ただし、解答の順序は問いませんが、同一番号を重複使用した解答は無効とします。$\fbox{39}$~$\fbox{43}$
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  • nutritional value: 栄養価
  • turkey twizzler: 「ターキートゥイズラー」英国加工食品の名称
  • junk food: ジャンクフード
  • obesity: (病的な)肥満

At the age of just 22, Jamie Oliver became well known across the UK as “The Naked Chef.” He called himself this not because he cooked wearing no clothes, but because he wanted to simplify food preparation so that everybody could follow his recipes. He wanted to “strip down” the idea of cooking. Since then he has had numerous TV shows, published many books, and has become a household name in the UK.

Today, one of the activities Jamie Oliver is best known for is his great effort to improve the school dinners that children eat every day. One day, he visited the kitchen of a typical London secondary school, and he was shocked to see how much processed junk food the kids were given to eat each day. Fat and sugar levels were extremely high, and nutritional values very low. The “turkey twizzler” became the symbol of these unhealthy meals: processed meat containing 21.2% fat and only 34% actual turkey. Oliver ran the school kitchen for one year and tried to show that it was possible to serve healthy meals on a limited budget - and that kids actually enjoyed eating them. His mission was to radically change the eating habits of children in that school, and across the country.

His project (the “Feed Me Better” campaign) has had some influence on school dinners in the UK. After watching the documentary Jamie's School Dimers, 271,677 people signed a petition calling for healthier school meals. This led the Prime Minister to agree to spend 280 million pounds (about 37 billion yen)on school dinners, to ban some junk food from school menus, and to create a School Food Trust to provide support and advice for people preparing school meals. Research, by the way, shows that children who stop eating sugary, fatty food and instead eat Oliver's school dinners are better behaved in class, and they get higher test scores, too.

Of course, the project has had some problems. At first, many students (and even parents) resisted the removal of the junk food they were so used to. In one famous instance, some parents were passing local takeaway food to their children through the school fence. Also schools that followed the plan for a while were often found to gradually drift back into bad habits. After all, it is easier and cheaper to just give the kids junk food. However, Oliver's efforts represent a positive start, and with obesity becoming such a huge problem, it's a very necessary start.

(A Matter of Taste [南雲堂]より)
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  • (1) British people started calling Jamie Oliver “The Naked Chef,” focusing on the fact that he was making the idea of cooking as simple as possible.
  • (2) Jamie Oliver has not written any books himself, but many books have been written about his recipes and his personality.
  • (3) Jamie Oliver is a prominent figure in household cooking.
  • (4) Secondary schools in London used to provide processed junk food to the students because processed food was not only cheap but also believed to be healthy in those days.
  • (5) Jamie Oliver was surprised to see the school meals with a lot of fat, sugar and nutritional values.
  • (6) Jamie Oliver succeeded in preparing healthy meals for the school kids within a certain amount of money, but not really in satisfying their appetites.
  • (7) The “turkey twizzler” is one example of unhealthy food the children in the UK were having at school.
  • (8) Turkey meat contains 21.2% fat.
  • (9) Jamie Oliver became a school's chef for one year before he started to make a bold experiment in order to change the contents of meals served at schools.
  • (10) A School Food Trust was established as one of the results of the petition signed by 271,677 people who had been impressed by the documentary fames Jamie's School Dinners.
  • (11) Jamie Oliver's campaign led people to sign a contract which enabled them to spend 280 million pounds on the School Food Trust.
  • (12) No study shows the relation between children's eating habits and their behavior.
  • (13) School meals seem to have a close connection with the students' behaviour as well as their test scores.
  • (14) Junk food, according to one research mentioned in the article, was found to have a good effect at least on the students' physical health.
  • (15) Jamie Oliver made up school meals that tasted like junk food but, in reality, were much healthier than that.
  • (16) Not only some children but also some adults preferred junk food for school meals.
  • (17) Every school that adopted Oliver's plan managed to continue serving healthy food.
  • (18) Jamie Oliver's project helped improve school meals and promote obesity in the UK.