【题目】Generations of Americans have been brought up to believe that a good breakfast is one of life’s essentials. Eating breakfast at the start of the day, we have all been told again, is as necessary as putting gasoline in the family car before starting a trip.
But for many people the thought of food as first thing in the morning is by no means a pleasure. So despite all the efforts, they still take no breakfast. Between 1977 and 1983, the latest year for which figures are available, the number of people who didn’t have breakfast increased by 33 percent-from 8.8 million to 11.7 million-according to the Chicago-based Market Research Corporation of America.
For those who feel pain or guilt about not earing breakfast, however, there is some good news. Several studies in the last few years indicate that, for adults especially, there may be nothing wrong with not taking breakfast. “Going without breakfast does not affect performance,” said Arnold E. Bender, former professor of nutrition（营养）at Queen Elizabeth College in London, “nor doe giving people breakfast improve performance.”
Scientific evidence linking breakfast to better health or better performance is surprisingly inadequate, and most of the recent work involves children, not adults. “The literature,” says one researcher, Dr. Ernesto Pollitt at the University of Texas, “is poor.”
【1】For those who do not take breakfast, the good news is that ______.
A. the missing of breakfast does no harm to one’s health.
B. several studies have been done in the past few years.
C. adults have especially made studies in this field.
D. eating little in the morning is good for health.
【2】The underlined sentence “…nor doe giving people breakfast improve performance” in the 3rd paragraph means ______.
A. anyone without breakfast does improve his performance.
B. not giving people breakfast improves performance.
C. people having breakfast do improve their performances, too.
D. having breakfast does not improve performance, either.
【3】The word “literature” in the last sentence refers to ______.
A. stories, poems, plays, etc.
B. written works on particular subject.
C. any printed material.
D. the modern literature of America.
【4】What is suggested but NOT STATED by the author is that ______.
A. breakfast does not affect performance.
B. Dr. Pollitt is engaged in research work at an institution of higher learning.
C. not eating breakfast might affect the health of children.
D. Professor Bender once taught college courses in nutrition in London.
