Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is essential to one’s life. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have been told, and told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip.
But for many people, the thought of food as the first thing in the morning is never a pleasure. So in spite of all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures could be obtained(可獲得的), the number of people who didn’t have breakfast increased by 33%—from 8.8 million to 11.7 million—according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who dislike eating breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years have shown that, for grown-ups especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting(省略) breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect work,” said Arnold E. Bender, former professor of nutrition at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor does giving people breakfast improve work.”
Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better work is surprisingly inadequate(不適當(dāng)), and most of the recent work involves(涉及) children, not grown-ups. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr Earnest Polite at the University of Texas, “is poor.”
小題1:The main idea of the passage is _______.
A．breakfast has nothing to do with people’s health
B．a(chǎn) good breakfast used to be important to us
C．breakfast is not as important to us as gasoline to a car
D．breakfast is not as important as we thought before
小題2:For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that _______.
A．several studies have been done in the past few years
B．the omission of breakfast does no harm to one’s health
C．grown-ups have especially made studies in this field
D．eating little in the morning is good for health
小題3:The underlined part “nor does giving people breakfast improve work” means _______.
A．people without breakfast can improve their work
B．not giving people breakfast improves work
C．having breakfast does not improve work, either
D．people having breakfast do improve their work, too
小題4:The word "literature" in the last sentence refers to _______.
A．stories, poems, play, etc
B．written works on a particular subject
C．a(chǎn)ny printed material
D．the modern literature of America
小題5:What is implied but not stated by the author is that _______.
A．breakfast does not affect work
B．Dr Polite works at an institution of higher learning
C．not eating breakfast might affect the health of children
D．Professor Bender once taught college courses in nutrition in London

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:B
小題5:C

文章主要告訴我們關(guān)于早餐問題的最新研究成果
小題1:D。主旨大意題。文章先講傳統(tǒng)觀念, 強(qiáng)調(diào)早餐的重要；再講最新研究成果, 表明不吃早餐也不會影響工作和健康, 通過對比闡明最新研究成果，故答案選D。
小題2:B。事實(shí)細(xì)節(jié)題。從…for grown-ups especially, there may be nothing wrong with omitting breakfast可知答案B正確。
小題3:C。推理判斷題。題目中這句話是承接前面一個否定句，nor是修飾improve, 由此可知這句話的意思是吃早餐也不會提高工作效率，即答案選C。
小題4:B。詞匯猜測題。從recent work(作品)和researcher(學(xué)術(shù)研究者) 可猜出literature是著作的意思，即答案為B。
小題5:C。推理判斷題。從文章最后一段可知不吃早餐可能會影響小孩的健康，故答案選C。
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