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【题目】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.

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】Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

C: central point P: point Sp: sub-point（次要点） C: conclusion

A. B.

C. D.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】C

【2】D

【3】A

【4】B

【解析】

本文是一篇健康类短文阅读。减肥食品真的有价值吗？我们被减肥食品这个词所包围，所吸引。以至于忘了思考它对我们的作用。其实那些是对我们的精神或者身体有害的产品。减肥来自于意志力，而非化学物质的作用。一旦我们认识到了这一点，我们就更能去抵制减肥食品，因而去阻止在使用过程中它们带给我们的危害。

【1】推理判断题。从第一段可以看出，人们很容易受到节食产品的吸引，就不去思考节食产品对人们身心健康的影响，于是花钱买那些产品。这些产品误导了人们，故选C。

【2】推理判断题。从第二段可以看出，人们重视他们的体重，不加任何思考地去购买节食产品，只看是否有节食标签，这说明他们急于尝试那些产品，故选D。

【3】词义猜测题。从第三段可以看出，每次我们喝下标明不含热量的饮料，就给我们一个暗示，我们不会增加体重，减肥是很容易的事（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)也说明划线部分的含义。故选A.

【4】篇章结构题。分析各段的主题大意可知，第一段是我们在关注对我们身心有害的产品；第二段介绍在心理上削弱注意力；同时说了一方面；第三段有接着提到另一方面；第四段介绍减肥产品对人的身体的危害；第五段得出结论：减肥产品有害，不应该购买。故选B。

阅读理解通常都会出现词义猜测题，要求考生从上下文理解中概括出生词或短语的词义。考生作此类题型时，首先要找到所猜测词所在文章的位置，然后在理解文章大意的基础之上，对此词前后句反复研读，最后根据前后句猜测出词义。例如小题3要求猜测出gain comes without pain的含义，就是根据前句we don’t have to work to get results和后句and that life can be without resistance and struggle的内容提示。从而推测出gain comes without pain为“减肥不费吹灰之力”之意。