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【題目】The Diet Zone: A Dangerous Place

Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet. . . We are surrounded by the word "diet" everywhere we look and listen. We have so easily been attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we have stopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying for products that harm us psychologically and physically.

Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are not allowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losing the weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie, unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and go straight for the scale（秤） instead. All we have to do is to swallow or recognize the word "diet" in food labels.

On another level, diet products have greater psychological effects. Every time we have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awareness that we don't have to work to get results. Diet products make people believe that gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistance and struggle.

The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects they have on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods can indirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foods means we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(營(yíng)養(yǎng)成分). Diet foods and diet pills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicals to produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.

Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is time to seriously think about buying them. Losing weight lies in the power of minds, not in the power of chemicals. Once we realize this, we will be much better able to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm that comes from using them.

【1】From Paragraph 1, we learn that _________.

A. diet products fail to bring out people's potential

B. people have difficulty in choosing diet products

C. diet products are misleading people

D. people are fed up with diet products

【2】One psychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _________.

A. try out a variety of diet foods

B. hesitate before they enjoy diet foods

C. pay attention to their own eating habits

D. watch their weight rather than their diet

【3】In Paragraph 3, "gain comes without pain" probably means _________.

A. losing weight is effortless

B. it costs a lot to lose weight

C. diet products bring no pain

D. diet products are free from calories

【4】Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

C: central point P: point Sp: sub-point（次要點(diǎn)） C: conclusion

A. B.

C. D.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】A

【4】B

【解析】

本文是一篇健康類短文閱讀。減肥食品真的有價(jià)值嗎？我們被減肥食品這個(gè)詞所包圍，所吸引。以至于忘了思考它對(duì)我們的作用。其實(shí)那些是對(duì)我們的精神或者身體有害的產(chǎn)品。減肥來自于意志力，而非化學(xué)物質(zhì)的作用。一旦我們認(rèn)識(shí)到了這一點(diǎn)，我們就更能去抵制減肥食品，因而去阻止在使用過程中它們帶給我們的危害。

【1】推理判斷題。從第一段可以看出，人們很容易受到節(jié)食產(chǎn)品的吸引，就不去思考節(jié)食產(chǎn)品對(duì)人們身心健康的影響，于是花錢買那些產(chǎn)品。這些產(chǎn)品誤導(dǎo)了人們，故選C。

【2】推理判斷題。從第二段可以看出，人們重視他們的體重，不加任何思考地去購買節(jié)食產(chǎn)品，只看是否有節(jié)食標(biāo)簽，這說明他們急于嘗試那些產(chǎn)品，故選D。

【3】詞義猜測(cè)題。從第三段可以看出，每次我們喝下標(biāo)明不含熱量的飲料，就給我們一個(gè)暗示，我們不會(huì)增加體重，減肥是很容易的事（we don’t have to work to get results)另外，本段最后半句（and that life can be without resistance and struggle)也說明劃線部分的含義。故選A.

【4】篇章結(jié)構(gòu)題。分析各段的主題大意可知，第一段是我們?cè)陉P(guān)注對(duì)我們身心有害的產(chǎn)品；第二段介紹在心理上削弱注意力；同時(shí)說了一方面；第三段有接著提到另一方面；第四段介紹減肥產(chǎn)品對(duì)人的身體的危害；第五段得出結(jié)論：減肥產(chǎn)品有害，不應(yīng)該購買。故選B。

閱讀理解通常都會(huì)出現(xiàn)詞義猜測(cè)題，要求考生從上下文理解中概括出生詞或短語的詞義�？忌�作此類題型時(shí)，首先要找到所猜測(cè)詞所在文章的位置，然后在理解文章大意的基礎(chǔ)之上，對(duì)此詞前后句反復(fù)研讀，最后根據(jù)前后句猜測(cè)出詞義。例如小題3要求猜測(cè)出gain comes without pain的含義，就是根據(jù)前句we don’t have to work to get results和后句and that life can be without resistance and struggle的內(nèi)容提示。從而推測(cè)出gain comes without pain為“減肥不費(fèi)吹灰之力”之意。