Nutrition influences not only students' grades at school but their growth and development. Improper nutrition is one of the causes of childhood obesity. What can you do to help your child avoid childhood obesity?
My first piece of advice is to look in your fridge. What are you buying at the grocery store? Think about it: if you don't buy junk food or snacks, your kids won't eat them at home. Now if you're like me — both of your kids are at school, you'll know you can't police them every second of the day. This is the time when you'll need to talk to your children about their food choices. If you don't know the right food choices, there are so many free resources on-line to guide you.
Try new things. I was very surprised to find out my 4-year-old daughter likes balsamic vinegar — she calls it the "black sauce". She likes to have it with tomatoes and cucumbers. You just never know what your kids might like.
Don't get stressed if you can't always prepare something healthy. You may sometimes leave the house and forget to take something out for dinner, or you are running late and there's no time to cook before you have to take one of the kids somewhere. However, you can still make healthy choices while dining out. Many of the fast food restaurants offer fruit and milk instead of soda. I like to buy organic frozen pizzas from the organic market — for a quick dinner solution(解決辦法). All the ingredients are natural. What I do is to serve the pizza with something raw: lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, or fruit to try to give the kids something healthy with that meal.
In closing, take baby steps. Don't try to change your family's eating habits in one go, or you'll go nuts.
小題1:This passage is written mainly to          us
A．explain why today’s kids are overweight
B．tell us the importance of healthy eating
C．give parents some healthy eating tips
D．teach parents what to cook at home
小題2: The writer believes it is very important for parents to          
A．make sure their fridge is full of food.
B．teach their children how to eat healthily
C．check their children’s grades at school
D．provide their children with their favorite food
小題3: Paragraph 4 tells parents they should           .
A．never take their kids to a fast food restaurant
B．eat out in a nice restaurant with their kids at times
C．choose healthy food while eating out with their kids
D．cook healthy food for their kids however busy they are
小題4:According to the passage, it does NOT seem to be a good idea to        .
A．tell children what to eat at school
B．find free resources on healthy eating online
C．put balsamic vinegar on tomatoes or cucumbers
D．try to change a family’s eating habits in a very short time

小題1:C
小題2:B
小題3:C
小題4:D

試題分析：本文給父母提了一些健康飲食的建議，在家里怎么保持健康飲食，外出吃飯怎樣保證吃到健康的食品。
小題1:主旨題：從第一段的句子：What can you do to help your child avoid childhood obesity?可知作者給父母提了一些健康飲食的建議。選C。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從第二段的句子：This is the time when you'll need to talk to your children about their food choices.可知教孩子怎樣吃健康的東西很重要。選B
小題3:段落主旨題：從第四段的句子：However, you can still make healthy choices while dining out.可知在外面吃飯也可以很健康。選C
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)題：從最后一段的句子：Don't try to change your family's eating habits in one go, or you'll go nuts.可知不能很短時間的改變家庭的飲食習(xí)慣。選D。
點評：本文給父母提了一些健康飲食的建議，文章不難，但題目要我們理解有些重點的句子。集中考查了句意理解題和細(xì)節(jié)題，要求考生有較強的細(xì)節(jié)理解能力。做題時也可以結(jié)合自己的生活常識和經(jīng)驗，再通過邏輯推理和判斷。
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