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The DietZone: A Dangerous Place

  Diet Coke, diet Pepsi, diet pills, no-fat diet, vegetable diet… We aresurrounded by the word “diet” everywhere we look and listen. We have so easilybeen attracted by the promise and potential of diet products that we havestopped thinking about what diet products are doing to us. We are paying forproducts that harm us psychologically and physically（身体上）.

  Diet products significantly weaken us psychologically. On one level, we are notallowing our brain to admit that our weight problems lie not in actually losingthe weight, but in controlling the consumption of fatty, high-calorie,unhealthy foods. Diet products allow us to jump over the thinking stage and gostraight 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 timewe have a zero-calorie drink, we are telling ourselves without our awarenessthat we don’t have to work to get results. Diet products make people believethat gain comes without pain, and that life can be without resistanceand struggle.

  The danger of diet products lies not only in the psychological effects theyhave on us, but also in the physical harm that they cause. Diet foods canindirectly harm our bodies because consuming them instead of healthy foodsmeans we are preventing our bodies from having basic nutrients(营养成分). Diet foods and dietpills contain zero calorie only because the diet industry has created chemicalsto produce these wonder products. Diet products may not be nutritional, and thechemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.

  Now that we are aware of the effects that diet products have on us, it is timeto 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 betterable to resist diet products, and therefore prevent the psychological harm thatcomes from using them.

1.FromParagraph 1, we learn that ________.

A. dietproducts fail to bring out people’s potential

B.people have difficulty in choosing diet products

C. dietproducts are misleading people

D.people are fed up with diet products

2.Onepsychological effect of diet products is that people tend to _____.

A. tryout a variety of diet foods

B.hesitate before they enjoy diet foods

C. payattention to their own eating habits

D. watchtheir weight rather than their diet

3.InParagraph 3, “gain comes without pain” probably means ______.

A.losing weight is effortless

B. itcosts a lot to lose weight

C. dietproducts bring no pain

D. dietproducts are free from calories

4.Dietproducts indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.

A. areover-consumed

B. lackbasic nutrients

C. areshort of chemicals

D.provide too much energy

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

试题答案

【答案】

1.C 考查推断能力。从第一段可看出，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。

2.D 考查推断能力。从第二段可看出，人们非常重视他们的体重，不加任何思考地去购买节食产品，只看是否有节食标签。这说明他们急于去尝试那些产品。

3.A 考查细节理解的能力。从第三段可看出，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，本段的最后半句(and that life can be without resistance and struggle.)也说明了划线部分的意义。

4.B 考查细节理解的能力。从第四段第二句可看出，吃所谓的健康食品，就是阻止人体吸收基本的营养成分。另外，从本段最后一句也可以看出，节食产品没有营养(Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go intodiet products are potentially dangerous.)

5.B 考查学生对文章结构的分析能力。文章从两个要点来说明中心观点，这两个要点是1）节食产品对人们心理的伤害。2）节食产品对人们身体的伤害。为了说明第一个要点，文章中用了两个自然段，即第二自然段和第三自然段（分析理解是正确回答此题的关键）。所以，答案B是正确的。