Question

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（身體上）.

   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(營養(yǎng)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.

57. 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

58. 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

59. Diet products indirectly harm people physically because such products ______.

A. are over-consumed

B. lack basic nutrients

C. are short of chemicals

D. provide too much energy

60. Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?

 

Answer 1

57. C 考查推斷能力。從第一段可看出，人們很容易受到節(jié)食產(chǎn)品的吸引，就不去思考節(jié)食產(chǎn)品對人們身心健康的影響，于是花錢買那些產(chǎn)品。這些產(chǎn)品誤導(dǎo)了人們。

58 A 考查細(xì)節(jié)理解的能力。從第三段可看出，每次我們喝下標(biāo)明不含熱量的飲料，就給我們一個暗示，我們不會增加體重，減肥是很容易的事(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.)也說明了劃線部分的意義。
59. B 考查細(xì)節(jié)理解的能力。從第四段第二句可看出，吃所謂的健康食品，就是阻止人體吸收基本的營養(yǎng)成分。另外，從本段最后一句也可以看出，節(jié)食產(chǎn)品沒有營養(yǎng)(Diet products may not be nutritional, and the chemical that go into diet products are potentially dangerous.)
60. B 考查學(xué)生對文章結(jié)構(gòu)的分析能力。文章從兩個要點(diǎn)來說明中心觀點(diǎn)，這兩個要點(diǎn)是1）節(jié)食產(chǎn)品對人們心理的傷害。2）節(jié)食產(chǎn)品對人們身體的傷害。為了說明第一個要點(diǎn)，文章中用了兩個自然段，即第二自然段和第三自然段（分析理解是正確回答此題的關(guān)鍵）。所以，答案B是正確的。