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Girls that eat with their families are less likely to develop eating disorders, a study says.

New research shows girls who regularly have   21  meals are much less likely to adopt extreme weight control 22  such as vomiting (嘔吐), using laxatives (瀉藥)or diet pills.

A study  23  more than 2500 American high school students found that girls who ate five or more family meals a week had a much healthier 24  with food in later life.

The research,  25  in international magazine Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, polled students aged 13 to 17 in 1999 who were  26  five years later. Regular family meals were found to have a protective effect 27  the girls’ age, weight, socio-economic status,  28 habits or relationship with her family.

Experts say doctors should  29  families to have dinner at the table  30  on the couch in front of the television to 31serious eating disorders.

Belinda Dalton, director of eating disorders clinic The Oak House, said  32  with family helped "normalize"(正�；�) young people's relationship with food.

"When the young are feeling that they're not dealing properly, they  33  something that they can control and food is something  34   and accessible for them to control. 35  , if they're sitting with their family on a regular basis then their family can be more in  36  of their eating," Ms Dalton said. "It's about young people feeling  37  their family and that builds self-esteem (自尊) and sense of 38  and that works very actively against someone developing an eating disorder."

An eating disorders expert, Kirsty Greenwood, said meal times were often difficult for sufferers. "It's typical that they feel very   39  of their eating habits and often won't eat with other people. Perhaps it's because they haven't  40  the importance of the family meal in their growing up," she said.

21. A. personal	B. public	C. family	D. free
22. A. behaviors	B. measures	C. progress	D. development
23. A. promoting	B. surveying	C.impressing	D. delivering
24. A. relationship	B. terms	C. company	D. communication
25. A. reported	B. suggested	C. published	D. announced
26. A. kept up	B. followed up	C. broken up	D. taken up
27. A. in terms of	B. because of	C. regardless of	D. in honor of
28. A. dieting	B. acting	C. speaking	D. working
29. A. discourage	B. stimulate	C. encourage	D. teach
30. A. apart from	B. more than	C. other than	D. instead of
31. A. come to terms with	B. keep track of	C. keep away from	D. get out of
32. A. chatting	B. cooking	C. eating	D. functioning
33. A. find	B. turn to	C. ask for	D. require
34. A. available	B. reliable	C. reasonable	D. responsible
35. A. Therefore	B. However	C. Clearly	D. Though
36. A. habit	B. control	C. convenience	D. ease
37. A. connected with	B. associated to	C. related with	D. linked to
38. A. cost	B. expense	C. delight	D. worth
39. A. ashamed	B. proud	C. confident	D. self-esteem
40. A. experienced	B. accepted	C. profited	D. urged

Answer 1

21. C 根據(jù)句意和文章內(nèi)容可知，此處應(yīng)該是與家人一起吃飯。

22. A 這里用behaviors指下面提到的“嘔吐、吃瀉藥或減肥藥”這些行為表現(xiàn)。

23. B 這里用survey的現(xiàn)在分詞作定語(yǔ)，表示“采訪，調(diào)查”。

24. A這里表示人與食物一種更健康的關(guān)系，因此選A。下文“said  32  with family helped "normalize"(正�；�) young people's relationship with food.”有暗示

25. C 此項(xiàng)研究成果“刊登”在《兒科與青少年醫(yī)學(xué)檔案》國(guó)際期刊上。

26. B這里用follow up表示“跟蹤調(diào)查”。

27. C從語(yǔ)境看，這里用regardless of表示“不考慮，不管”，句意為：這與女孩的年齡、體重、社會(huì)經(jīng)濟(jì)地位、飲食習(xí)慣以及與家人的關(guān)系都無(wú)關(guān)。

28. A從全文內(nèi)容看，這里講的話題是“飲食習(xí)慣”。

29. C大夫應(yīng)該鼓勵(lì)人們都到餐桌上吃飯。

30. D此處為狀語(yǔ)，故用instead of“代替、而不”。

31. C本題選C表示“避開(kāi)”，而take back意為“取回、拿回”；hold back意為“抑制、阻礙”；keep out of意為“阻止……的進(jìn)入”。

32. C全文敘述的是與家人一起“就餐”。

33. B這里用turn to表示“轉(zhuǎn)向”，句意為“當(dāng)青少年遇到煩惱時(shí)，他們會(huì)去尋求一些他們能控制的東西”。

34. A表示孩子會(huì)求助于可以利用的東西，故選available。

35. C這里表示“顯然，很明顯”，因此選C。

36. B意為“對(duì)飲食習(xí)慣的一種控制能力”。

37. A和家人在一起吃飯可以使他們感到與家人的關(guān)系。四個(gè)選項(xiàng)只有A項(xiàng)搭配和含義正確，符合語(yǔ)境。related應(yīng)與to搭配；associated應(yīng)與with搭配；linked應(yīng)與with搭配。

38. D培養(yǎng)孩子的“自尊和自我價(jià)值感”，sense of worth“自我價(jià)值感”。

39. A句意為“他們會(huì)為自己不正常的飲食習(xí)慣感到十分羞愧”，故用ashamed“羞愧”。

40. A這里用experience表示“體驗(yàn)”：這是因?yàn)樗麄冊(cè)诔砷L(zhǎng)過(guò)程中沒(méi)體會(huì)過(guò)與家人一起吃飯的重要性”，說(shuō)明孩子不愿與家人一起吃飯的原因。