Burn Calories in Your Sleep?
The weight-loss world is full of assertions（斷言）, rarely proved, that some pill can help you “burn calories while you sleep.” But a recent Dutch study reports that it can be done – simply by eating more lean protein（無脂肪蛋白質(zhì)）.
Researchers report for the first time that consuming nearly a third of daily calories as lean protein – for example, lean meats without the skin – speeds up a person’s metabolism（新陳代謝） during sleep and that higher protein intake increases the burning of calories and fat during the day. Plus, when the study’s participants, who were all women of healthy weight, ate more protein, they felt fuller, more satisfied and less hungry than when they consumed a diet with the amount of protein, about 10 percent of calories.
The findings suggest that adding lean protein to your daily food “enables you to reach the same level of satiety（過飽）that you are used to with about 80 percent of your normal energy intake,” notes Margriet Westerterp-Plantenga. “That means you can eat about 20 percent less and still have the same satiety.”
What gives protein its caloric edge? It’s more difficult for the body to metabolize protein than either fat or carbohydrates（糖類）. The body also doesn’t store protein as efficiently as it does carbohydrates or fat. So protein is more likely to be burned and that in turn requires more oxygen and helps you feel satisfied in the hours after eating.
But the latest findings don’t mean it’s time to dust off those high-protein diet books. The current study limited fat to about 30 percent of daily calories, and included 40 percent of calories as healthy carbohydrates, including fruit and vegetables. For example, lunch included bread, soy milk, fruit yogurt, tuna in water, tomatoes, cucumbers, feta cheese and salad dressing.
54. According the first paragraph, we know that ______.
A. there’re few studies on weight-loss in the world
B. many studies on weight-loss only cheat customers
C. only few studies are useful for weight-loss
D. there’re few studies about lean protein
55. According to the passage, lean protein can help burn calories while you sleep because ______.
A.it can slow down a person’s metabolism   
B. it’s difficult for the body to metabolize
C.it will not make you feel full  
D. it’s easy to be stored in the body
56. The underlined phrase “dust off” in the last paragraph means ______.
A. get rid of                   B. put away     
C. get ready to rewrite          D. get ready to reuse
57. The passage is mainly to tell readers ______.
A. there is a good diet for weight-losers
B. you can burn your calories in your sleep
C. high-protein diet books will be popular
D. choosing right food is of great use

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　　Breakfast is not only the most important meal of the day, it is also the most neglected(忽視)．Common reasons for not eating breakfast include lack of time, not feeling hungry, traditional dislike for breakfast, and dieting．

　　Breakfast simply means “Breakfast the fast”．Your body spends at least 6 to 12 hours each night in a fasting state．In the morning your body needs energy for the day’s work ahead．

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　　So, you say you’re on a diet．Some people fear eating breakfast will make them hungrier during the day and they will eat more．It is true that eating breakfast is likely to make you feel hungry throughout the day．That’s because your body is working correctly．Although you may feel as if you eating more all day long, in reality you are probably not．

　　Not eating breakfast can also cause you to overeat, since a fall in blood sugar often makes you feel very hungry later．To make matters worse, since your body is in a slowed state it will not be able to burn those extra calories very efficiently(有效地)．If you feed your body healthy snacks(小吃)and meals throughout and day, you are less likely to become hungry and stuff(填飽)yourself as soon as you begin to eat．

　　Since breakfast is the first important meal of the day, choosing the right fuel is important．The best breakfast foods are fruits, juice, lean(精瘦的)meat, and grain products such as bread, rice, noodles and so on．

1．What is the best title of the passage?(Please answer within 8 words．)

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2．Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?

It is a fact that you’ll feel hungry all the day if you have breakfast．

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3．Please fill in the blank in the third paragraph with proper words or phrases to complete the sentence．(Please answer within 10 words．)

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4．Do you think breakfast is important or not? Why?

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科目：高中英語 來源：2012屆安徽省安慶市高三第二次模擬考試英語試卷（1）（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解


Keeping a busy social life among lots of friends may keep people thinner than spending hours doing some exercises, according to scientists. They say that socialising and meeting with friends help increase levels of brown fat in the body which burns calories(卡路里)to produce heat.
Living in an exciting social environment was found to reduce fat in mice's belly by half over four weeks, even if they ate more. US researchers say that social excitement aids weight loss by turning white fat into brown. White fat stores calories and makes us fatter, while brown burns energy to produce heat. Turning white fat into brown is extremely difficult，normally
requiring long- term stay in cold conditions or exciting part of the body's nervous system.
However, scientists from Ohio State University now think that having a busy social life is an even more effective way of changing white fat into brown. The team came up with their theory by studying the effects of various living environments on mice. Those, who lived alongside a greater number of mice, had more space and toys to excite themselves and then lost far more weight over the course of the study than their “couch potato" fellows.
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【小題1】What information can we get from the first two paragraphs?

A．Brown fat stores calories and makes us fatter.
B．It doesn't take long to turn white fat into brown.
C．Social excitement helps gain more weight.
D．Brown fat can burn energy to produce heat.
【小題2】Which of the following statement does the text support?
A．Levels of brown fat can be increased by socialising.
B．The mice lacking social life lose more weight.
C．The research findings haven't been published so far.
D．Dr Matthew During wasn't convinced of the result.
【小題3】We can conclude from the text that _______.
A．the fat in mice's belly was reduced because of the relaxing environment
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C．surfing the Internet may influence people's face-to-face communication
D．cancer and death are mainly caused for lack of social life
【小題4】What’s the main idea of the text?
A．Brown fat is beneficial to people's health.
B．Socialising is unnecessarily important in people's daily life.
C．White fat can be changed into brown fat.
D．Socialising contributes to people's losing weight.

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I know what you’re thinking: pizza? For breakfast? But the truth is that you can have last night’s leftovers in the morning if you want to.
I know lots of women who don’t have breakfast, and they have many different excuses for doing it. Some say they don’t have time, others think they’re “saving” calories（卡路里）, still others just don’t like breakfast food.
But eating in the morning is very important when you’re trying to lose weight. Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all.
Breakfast is one meal I never miss, and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating later in the day. Researchers found that those who don’t have breakfast have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.
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【小題1】The word “l(fā)eftovers” in Paragraph 1 probably means __________.

A．pizza topped with fruitB．things left undone
C．food remaining after a mealD．meals made of vegetables
【小題2】According to the last paragraph, it is important to__________.
A．be careful about what you eatB．eat something for breakfast
C．heat up food before eating itD．eat calorie-controlled food
【小題3】What can we infer from the text?
A．Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.
B．Working women usually have breakfast in a hurry.
C．There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.
D．Eating vegetables helps save energy.
【小題4】The text is written mainly for those__________.
A．who go to work earlyB．who go to bed late
C．who eat before sleepD．who want to lose weight
【小題5】What does the author advise the readers to do?
A．Better eat up all the food at dinner in the night.
B．Better eat less in the night.
C．Better eat leftovers in the morning.
D．Better get up late and eat nothing in the morning in order to burn more calories.

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科目：高中英語 來源：2013屆江蘇省鹽城市明達(dá)中學(xué)高三上學(xué)期學(xué)情調(diào)研考試英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解

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What are the best foods to help the body recover after harsh competition?
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【小題1】What’s the best title of this passage?

A．Good Diet Makes a True Olympian.
B．Olympians Have Olympic-size Appetites.
C．The Diet of Some Top Olympic Athletes.
D．Olympians’ Strange Eating Habits.
【小題2】What does the underlined sentence probably mean?
A．Ordinary people eat few pigs compared with Olympians.
B．Olympians eat a lot more food than ordinary people.
C．Olympians tend to eat a lot of high-quality food.
D．Olympians eat a large amount of food, just like pigs.
【小題3】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．Ryan Lochte quit eating junk food , candy and soda for his better recovery.
B．Yohan Blake finally beat Usain Bolt in the 100-meter track in the Olympics.
C．Michael Phelps’ astonishing performance was due to his eating lots of food.
D．Jonathan Horton has a blood sugar problem because of taking too much honey.
【小題4】The passage is most likely to be found in     .
A．a(chǎn) technical reportB．a(chǎn) fashion magazine
C．a(chǎn)n education columnD．a(chǎn) sports newspaper

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科目：高中英語 來源：2013屆江西省九江一中高三第一次月考英語試卷（帶解析） 題型：閱讀理解

There are new findings that not enough sleep may cause people to gain weight. Researchers say a lack of sleep can produce hormonal(激素的) changes that increase feelings of hunger.
In one study, researchers in the United States examined information on more than 1000 people. The people had taken part in a long-term study of sleep disorders.
Some people slept less than five hours a night. They had 15 percent higher blood levels of a hormone called ghrelin than people who slept eight hours. And they had 15 percent less of the hormone leptin. Experts say ghrelin helps make people feel hungry; leptin makes you feel full.
The scientists say these hormonal changes may be a cause of obesity in Western societies. They note the combination that sleep limitation is common and food is widely available.
The results were not affected by how much people exercised. People who are awake longer have more time to burn energy. But the researchers say loss of sleep may increase hunger especially for high-calorie foods, so people gain weight. It seems that, for survival, the body may be designed to store more fat during times with less sleep.
Researchers from Stanford University in California and the University of Wisconsin did the study. They found that the best amount of sleep for weight control is 7.7 hours a night.
The Public Library of Science published the findings in its journal Medicine . Internet users can read the full study, free of charge, at plos. org.
【小題1】Not enough sleep can cause obesity by ______.

A．burning more of your energy
B．making you want to eat more food
C．keeping you from doing exercise
D．helping you feel great without food
【小題2】Which would be a point supported by the reported findings?
The more you sleep, the farther away you are from obesity.
Those who don’t sleep at all are the most likely to put on weight.
Sleeping contributes more to obesity than eating.
It’s not wise to use sleep hours for exercise.
【小題3】When you sleep 7.7 hours a night, you will ______ .
have your ghrelin level rise and leptin level drop
have your leptin level rise and ghrelin level drop
have your ghretin and leptin levels properly balanced
have your hunger increase and your weight decrease
【小題4】The writer wrote this passage to _______ .
A．make a news report
B．offer a piece of medical advice
C．make an advertisement
D．keep a record of the old findings
【小題5】You can read the findings________.
A．Only on the Internet
B．only in Medicine
C．Both on the Internet and in Medicine
D．Neither on the Internet nor in Medicine

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