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Self-denial is the typical first step toward an eating disorder. Eventually, desires for what you've denied yourself become unbearable, and you react with either a binge or overly fierce self-control. The answer is not, of course, to eat all the snacks and treats you fancy. But to avoid that first step that leads to overeating, strive for a good and healthy diet. Such a diet is based primarily on grain products, fruits, and vegetables, with moderate amounts of meat and dairy products and with small amounts of snacks and desserts. Research demonstrates that this kind of diet leaves you more alert and energetic.

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VI. 书面表达 (25%)

假如你是李华，在最近的研究性学习当中，受《21世纪中学生英语报》(The 21^st Century)之邀，你对你所在的班60名同学(男女各半)进行了上网目的的调查。现将调查结果(如下表所示)用英语给报社的编辑写一封信，报道此事，以引起舆论的关注，并提出你的观点和建议。

注意：　 1、报道应包括图表所示全部内容，可适度发挥。

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Our society's obsession with thinness, together with a constant emphasis on the theme that rich food means pleasure, puts many teens in a difficult situation. Being drawn to overeating on the one hand and self-denial on the other can bring about anorexia or bulimia - or both. Anorexics seem to feel that no matter how much weight they lose, they are still too fat. Therefore, it is important for each person in our society to try to maintain a healthy and realistic self-image. Don't compare yourself with the models and actors in the media. Set your sights more realistically by comparing yourself with family and friends, if anyone.

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Once an eating disorder has become firmly established, there is no easy cure. Someone who's never suffered anorexia and never known an anorexic might be tempted to think. "It's simple - just tell them to eat more!" Unfortunately, it's not that simple. Even when anorexics have been brought into the hospital and are receiving physical care, nutritional therapy, and psychiatric care, many don't improve much.

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But in real life most people, if they keep consuming like that, just keep putting on more and more weight. They then find themselves in conflict with another dominant pressure in society - to stay slim and trim. Models in ads, even those shown eating fatty foods, are usually physically fit and quite thin. All of these pressures put teens in a terrible situation. The "solution" that some teens choose is to deny themselves all the time so as to keep temptation away. But soon, hunger and food boredom lead to overeating. Over time they develop anorexia or bulimia.

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The causes of eating disorders are not clear. There may be genetic or biochemical factors in some cases. There may be psychological problems from early childhood or the present(such as school or family conflicts)that trigger the problem. Often, there is the double pressure to enjoy life through food and yet remain ultra-slim. Society all around us encourages eating and drinking as main ways to enjoy life. To be popular, you are supposed to eat, eat, eat.

74. The expression “wait on table” in the second paragraph means “________________”

A. work in a furniture shop　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. keep accounts for a bar

C. wait to lay the table　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D. serve customers in a restaurant

73. According to the passage, the hostess cooks dinner herself mainly because _________.

A. servants in America are hard to get　　　　 B. she takes pride in what she can do herself

C. she can hardly afford servants　　　　　　　　 D. it is easy to prepare a meal with canned food

72. From Paragraph 1, we can know that in America ____________.

A. people tend to have a high opinion of the self-made man

B. people can always rise to the top through their won efforts

C. college professors win great respect from common workers

D. people feel painful to mention their fathers as laborers

71. What will Liz and Bill do in the future?

A. Go in for publishing. 　 　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Do more television programs.

C. Continue what they are doing. 　　 　　　　 　　　 D. Spend more time reading books.

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A characteristic of American culture that has become almost a tradition is to respect the self-made man ––the man who has risen to the top through his own efforts, usually beginning by working with his hands. While the leader in business or industry or the college professor occupies a higher social position and commands greater respect in the community than the common laborer or even the skilled factory worker, he may take pains to point out that his father started life in America as a farmer or laborer of some sort.

This attitude toward manual labor is now still seen in many aspects of American life. One is invited to dinner at a home that is not only comfortably but even luxuriously furnished and in which there is every evidence of the fact that the family has been able to afford foreign travel, expensive hobbies, and college education for the children; yet the hostess probably will cook the dinner herself, will serve it herself and will wash dishes afterward, furthermore the dinner will not consist merely of something quickly and easily assembled from contents of various cans and a cake or a pie bought at the nearby bakery. On the contrary, the hostess usually takes pride in careful preparation of special dishes. A professional man may talk about washing the car, digging in his flowerbeds, painting the house. His wife may even help with these things, just as he often helps her with the dishwashing. The son who is away at college may wait on table and wash dishes for his living, or during the summer he may work with a construction gang on a highway in order to pay for his education.