题目内容
How to Avoid Weight Gain Over Holidays
Do you love the holidays, but hate the pounds that follow? You are not alone. Holidays are times for feasting and celebrating. Many people are worried about their weight. ______1______ Whether you are celebrating at the office party or sitting down for the traditional family dinner, regard eating as a time for tasting a variety of foods. The idea is to enjoy the holidays but not to eat too much. You don’t have to turn away from the foods that you enjoy.
Here are some tips for preventing weight gain and maintaining physical fitness:
Don’t skip meals.
Before you leave home, have a small, low-fat meal or snack. ______2______
Control portions.
Use a small plate (about 10 inches) and put aside the large ones that may encourage you to “load up.” ______3______ Once you have your “tasting” serving, move away from the dining table. Doing so will make it less tempting (吸引人的) to be eating constantly as your appetite is inspired by the sight of food.
Begin with soup and fruit or vegetables.
Fill up beforehand with water-based soup and raw fruit or vegetables. Or drink a large glass of water before you eat to help you feel full.
Stick to physical activity.
______4______ A 20-minute walk after a meal can help burn off additional calories.
______5______
Dishes that look oily or creamy may have a large amount of fat. Choose lean meats. Fill your plate with salad and green vegetables. Use lemon juice instead of dressing or butter.
A．This may help to avoid getting too excited before delicious food.
B．You had better turn your attention away from delicious foods.
C．With proper planning, though, it is possible to keep normal weight during the holidays.
D．You should be most comfortable eating an amount of food about the size of your fist.
E. Avoid high-fat foods.
F. Don’t let exercise take a break during the holidays.
G. You’d better remember the Dos and Don’ts for keeping fit and slim.
C
A
D
F
E
【解析】
试题分析：本文给我们提出了在假期期间保持身体健康的几个建议。
C 根据前一句：很多人都担心自己的体重问题。接下来应该是讲：采取合适的方法在假期里控制体重是可能的。故C项正确。
A 前句讲述要吃点零食，目的是不要多吃美味的菜肴，故A项正确。
D 本段是关于所吃的食物的量的问题，故只有D项吃的食物的量大约是拳头大小的。D项与本段的中心思想相符。
F 本段的主题是Stick to physical activity，所以是指不要中断你的段落活动，故F项符合上下文。
E 根据本段第一句Dishes that look oily or creamy may have a large amount of fat说明这些油腻的食物含有太多的脂肪。故要避免吃这样的食物。E项符合上下文。
考点：考查健康类短文阅读
点评：本文给我们提出了在假期期间保持身体健康的几个建议。实际上本题考查了学生的配对能力，要求考生能抓住段落的中心思想和选项中的关键词，进行合理的配对。
Sometimes there doesn’t seem to be enough rain. Other times there is too much. Maybe thereisn’t a lot we can do to control the rain, but there is a lot we can do to reduce problems caused bydifferent rainfall patterns.
A new development at the London Wetland Centre in Barnes solves the problems of managingwater with a “Rain Garden”. We are likely to be hearing about it a lot more often over the next fewyears. The idea is that the garden owner can store rainwater and use it in dry periods. They canreduce the problems caused by extra rain this way.
One of the key problems that the rain garden tries to deal with is the problem caused by toomuch water in the street. In a natural environment, a lot of rainwater is sent back into the air byplants. Much is also absorbed deep into the ground, and flows into streams and rivers. What happensin city environments can be completely different —— a large amount of rainwater flows straight offthe hard surfaces of roofs and roads. The harder the rain, the less likely it will be absorbed into theground —— floods are the result. Rainwater running off roads is often polluted.
The rain garden deals with living plants rather than hard surfaces. Plants are designed to holdwater and release it slowly, either into the ground, to be absorbed by plant roots (and so eventuallyback up into the atmosphere) or to go down into the water table. Not only does the rain gardenreduce the amount of water that flows onto the street, but it helps to clean it because plants are very goodat breaking down pollutants(污染物).
【小题1】What’s the main idea of the first paragraph?
| A．Explaining why there is a lack of rain at times. |
| B．Introducing several different patterns of rainfall. |
| C．Telling us how to avoid problems caused by rain. |
| D．Giving the idea that there are ways to manage rain water. |
| A．harm the environment in the short run |
| B．become popular over the next few years |
| C．be turned down by most new developments |
| D．be too expensive for common people to accept |
| A．floods are often the results of small rains |
| B．a heavy rain is less difficult for plants to absorb |
| C．the rain garden helps send rainwater back into the air |
| D．larger amounts of rainwater flow straight off in city environments |
| A．The plants | B．The ground. | C．The water. | D．The street. |