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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.

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

A．a(chǎn)re over-consumed                              B．lack basic nutrients

C．a(chǎn)re short of chemicals                         D．provide too much energy

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

Answer 1

這是一篇議論文，探討減肥食品對我們的心理和身體的影響，呼吁大家在購買這樣的產(chǎn)品時要三思，不要聽信減肥產(chǎn)品的承諾。

1．C第一段呼應(yīng)標(biāo)題“減肥地帶，一個危險的地方”。說各種減肥或節(jié)食產(chǎn)品鋪天蓋地而來，其承諾很輕易地吸引了我們，從這些信息可知選C，這些減肥產(chǎn)品在誤導(dǎo)我們。

2．D考查細節(jié)理解，在談到減肥食品對我們的心理危害時，第二段說它們使我們跳過思考階段，直奔體重秤，也就是說，這些食品使人們不關(guān)注或思考自己的膳食結(jié)構(gòu)，只關(guān)注是否能減肥。

3．A 考查句意猜測，語境說，這些減肥產(chǎn)品使我們以為，我們可以不工作就得到結(jié)果，可以不付出痛苦就能收獲。結(jié)合文章的敘述，畫線部分的含義是：吃減肥產(chǎn)呂，我們就可以不鍛煉也能減肥，即A項敘述正確。

4．B考查細節(jié)理解，第四段說，減肥食品對我們的身體危害很大，因為我們吃減肥食品而沒有健康的飲食，這樣一來，身體就缺少基本的營養(yǎng)成分。

5．B 考查文章結(jié)構(gòu)。本文首先提出論點：減肥食品對我們的生理和心理都有危害，然后第二、三段談到對我們的心理危害，第四段談到生理危害，最后一段作總結(jié)，我們已經(jīng)知道了減肥產(chǎn)品對我們的危害，那么我們就該認真考慮是否買這些產(chǎn)品。一旦認識了這些問題，我們就更能抵御減肥產(chǎn)品。從這些信息可知，本文的篇章結(jié)構(gòu)是B。