Question

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（身體上）.
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.
【小題1】From Paragraph 1, we learn that ________.

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

B．people are fed up with diet products

C．people have difficulty in choosing diet products

D．diet products are misleading people

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

A．hesitate before they enjoy diet foods

B．pay attention to their own eating habits

C．watch their weight rather than their diet

D．try out a variety of diet foods

【小題3】In Paragraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ______.

A．losing weight is effortless

B．diet products bring no pain

C．it costs a lot to lose weight

D．diet products are free from calories

【小題4】Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.

A．lack basic nutrients	B．a(chǎn)re over-consumed
C．a(chǎn)re short of chemicals	D．provide too much energy

Answer 1

【小題1】D
【小題2】C
【小題3】A
【小題4】A

解析試題分析：減肥食品真的有價值嗎？我們被減肥食品這個詞所包圍，所吸引。以至于忘了思考它對我們的作用。其實那些是對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。一旦我們認識到了這一點，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。
【小題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，所以選D。
【小題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)食標簽，這說明他們急于嘗試那些產(chǎn)品，所以選C。
【小題3】詞義猜測題。從第三段可以看出，每次我們喝下標明不含熱量的飲料，就給我們一個暗示，我們不會增加體重，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。選A.
【小題4】細節(jié)理解題。從第四段第二句可以看出，吃所謂的健康食品，就是阻止人體吸收基本的營養(yǎng)成分。另外，從本段的最后一句可以看出，節(jié)食產(chǎn)品沒有營養(yǎng)（diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous)所以選A
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