Sugary Drink Consumption Plunges in Chile After New Food Law Four years after Chile embraced the wor

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Sugary Drink Consumption Plunges in Chile After New Food Law
Four years after Chile embraced the world’s most 1.__________(sweep)measures to combat mounting obesity, a partial verdict on their effectiveness is in: Chileans are drinking a lot fewer sugar-laden beverages, according to a study published Tuesday.
2.____________(consume) of sugar-sweetened drinks dropped nearly 25 percent in the 18 months after Chile adopted a raft of regulations that included advertising restrictions 3.___________ unhealthy foods, bold front-of-package warning labels and a ban on junk food in schools. During the same period, researchers recorded a five percent increase in purchases of bottled water, diet soft drinks 4.___________ fruit juices without added sugar.
The law is far-reaching. It includes mandatory package redesigns 5.__________ erased cartoons like Tony the Tiger from sugary cereal boxes, and a series of black stop signs that 6.____________ appear on the front of packaged foods and beverages high in salt, sugar, fat or calories.
7.___________(avoid) having to display the dreaded stop signs on their products, companies like Nestlé, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have reformulated hundreds of products, 8._____________(reduce) the amount of sodium in salad dressings and substituting artificial sweeteners for sugar in carbonated drinks.
Experts say 9.__________ is too soon to know whether the food regulations are making a dent in Chile’s obesity rates. But the early results could embolden 10.______________(policymaker) in Chile.
答案：
1.sweeping 2.Consumption 3.on 4.and 5.that
6.must 7.To avoid 8.reducing 9.it 10.policymaker
【词汇拓展】
1.plunge vi. 暴跌，骤降（to dive or fall fast）；跳水 其他关于“下降”的表达：
nosedive、plummet、slump、tumble
2.embrace measures to do sth.  采取措施做某事 近义表达：take measures to do sth.
embrace更强调accept sth. willingly and start supporting it
embrace vt. 拥抱
embrace the future 拥抱未来
3.combat obesity  对抗肥胖症 obesity n. 肥胖症
combat vt. 与……作斗争；防止，抑制
combat crime 防止犯罪
4.mounting adj. 增加的，正在加剧的
5.sweeping adj. 彻底的 a sweeping victory 彻底的胜利
a sweeping reform 全面的改革
6.a verdict on sth.  对某事的判断、意见 verdict n. 意见，判断；裁决
Has the jury reached a verdict？陪审团有结果了吗？
We find this person guilty or innocent. 我们判定此人有罪/无罪。
7.sugar-laden beverage  高糖饮料 laden v. 装载，装满（lade的过去分词）
n.-laden 充满某物
a fat-laden meal 非常油腻的一顿饭
the smoke-laden air 满是烟味的空气
8.a raft of…  大量的……（a large number of…）
9.bold adj. 醒目的，显眼的；加粗的
10.mandatory  adj. 法定的，强制性的 The mandatory retirement age of men is 60.男性的法定退休年龄是 60 周岁。
11.dreaded adj. 令人畏惧的 a dreaded disease 一种令人畏惧的疾病
12.substitute A for B  用 A 来替代 B
13.make a dent in sth.  削弱某物；取得进展
The COVID-19 has made a dent in our economic growth.这次疫情，会稍微削弱我们的经济增长。
The garbage sorting is making a dent in our waste problems.垃圾分类，使得我们在废物处理的问题上初见成效。
14.embolden sb.  鼓舞某人（it makes you feel confident enough to behave in a particular way）