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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（身体上）.

   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(营养成分). 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．Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.

A．are over-consumed                              B．lack basic nutrients

C．are short of chemicals                         D．provide too much energy

5．Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

Answer 1

这是一篇议论文，探讨减肥食品对我们的心理和身体的影响，呼吁大家在购买这样的产品时要三思，不要听信减肥产品的承诺。

1．C第一段呼应标题“减肥地带，一个危险的地方”。说各种减肥或节食产品铺天盖地而来，其承诺很轻易地吸引了我们，从这些信息可知选C，这些减肥产品在误导我们。

2．D考查细节理解，在谈到减肥食品对我们的心理危害时，第二段说它们使我们跳过思考阶段，直奔体重秤，也就是说，这些食品使人们不关注或思考自己的膳食结构，只关注是否能减肥。

3．A 考查句意猜测，语境说，这些减肥产品使我们以为，我们可以不工作就得到结果，可以不付出痛苦就能收获。结合文章的叙述，画线部分的含义是：吃减肥产吕，我们就可以不锻炼也能减肥，即A项叙述正确。

4．B考查细节理解，第四段说，减肥食品对我们的身体危害很大，因为我们吃减肥食品而没有健康的饮食，这样一来，身体就缺少基本的营养成分。

5．B 考查文章结构。本文首先提出论点：减肥食品对我们的生理和心理都有危害，然后第二、三段谈到对我们的心理危害，第四段谈到生理危害，最后一段作总结，我们已经知道了减肥产品对我们的危害，那么我们就该认真考虑是否买这些产品。一旦认识了这些问题，我们就更能抵御减肥产品。从这些信息可知，本文的篇章结构是B。